Recent content by BookishBoy

I mean, yes, you're right, those Morrissey lyrics are pretty bad. But to me they still have a drunk uncle charm to them, whereas the Tim Booth lyrics from earlier in the thread just reek of pseudo-profound, half-assed, cod-Coldplay, mass singalong, cringe-infused earnestness.

Yes, agree. Is there any kind of female equivalent to Dad-Rock? (I guess "Mom-pop" has a bizarre feel to it...)

100% true. "If Things Were Perfect" and "Hymn From a Village" are incredible songs.

Every time I see something like this (and it's happening more and more regularly these days), my first thought is: God, what must Morrissey think? (I realise this means I'm mentally ill / unhealthily obsessed - that's fine, whatever - but he must surely, on some level, care? Does it niggle...

Well yes. He's never going to get much in the way of coverage / airplay via the BBC / music press / broadsheets unless in some way he addresses the perception that has (fairly or unfairly) grown around him. You may be right that "most" ordinary people would agree with him - but then it's hard...

What if the choice was Morrissey or Michael Jackson, though?!

Maybe some people just have very low expectations of pop lyrics making much sense? I blame Kajagoogoo.

There was a huge thread on Twitter the other day, sparked by someone admitting they had only just discovered that the lyric is son/heir and not sun/air - and it turned out that soooooooooo many people have always thought the same thing. Weird!!

I suspect, like for way too many of us, his identity is way too closely tied up with his work. If he stops writing songs and stops performing in front of a crowd, I'm not sure he'd have any reason to live.

Articles like this make me so sad, for two reasons: (a) It's clear that there is no way back for Morrissey, in terms of broader cultural acceptance, particularly in the UK. Even if he comes out and says "I never meant to advocate for that ridiculously small political party, I just thought they...

Worth reading just for the phrase "the Pennsylvanian grievancemonger" :ROFLMAO:

I love how she says "My piece for Gabfest" as if someone's commissioned her to write it. When it's just her own website.

That's exactly what he was implying, yes. I'm sure all the major labels by this point are well aware of the rabid Morrissey/Smiths collector demographic and - this being late capitalism and all - they will happily fleece that market for as much as they can and for as long as they can.

I guess the young Dudwell was too busy blu-tacking Michael Jackson posters to her bedroom wall in 1985 to have ever heard "The Headmaster Ritual". Sigh.

That's no way to talk about Dodwell!