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what is morrissey's music essentially about? what is the single thread tying together morrissey's whole outlook? it is an individual's inability to find love and recongnition in life, whether that be from an other individual or from society. they find themself's as outsiders, alone in the world; society simply cannot or will not recongnise these peoples identity and needs.
people who don't like morrissey's music always say they find it too depressing, but he cannot help that, the people he writes about will always lead unhappy lives. yet others who come to morrissey's music find it a profoundly consoling experience.why? because they identify their lives with the lives of the characters in his lyrics. and this is why morrissey inspires love, devotion and worship stronger that any other figure in popular music. he acts as a substitute form of recongnition from that of society. and maybe morrissey has even saved lives for this reason.
now i want to bring in november spawned a monster and get too the point of this piece. the figure in this song is a child of suffering, a twisted and ugly woman. she will never know happiness like other people; never will she be able to enter the social roles that the majority take for granted - love, marriage, motherhood, a sucssesful carrer - and even trying will only end in her humiliation. so if there is no alternative to these, if there is nothing higher, then she is lost, absolutly lost. all she has is her pride and inner dignity, but all that society can offer her is pity,and for pride, there's no greater posion than pity. so what can she do? where can she go? well, she could spent her life in and out of doctors surgerys or on psychiatrist couches, popping pills and taking advise; but this would only be an expiedient to ease her suffering; it will never help her find meaning for her life. so what should she do? where should she go?
as i said earlier, morrissey acts as a subtitute recongnition for people (most people who love morrissey will use him in this sense during difficult periods in their lives). in this sense he is similar to christianity, in that they both attract the anguished and offer substitute forms of recongnition to that of society's; but, and this is my critisism of morrissey, in christianity, the individual not only finds recongnition of himself, he also gains a prodiguos hope ( eternal life)and a new qualitive meaning to their life. morrissey on the other hand, offer only a negative recongnition. he speaks generally of unhappy lives, and people will see their own lives reflected in his lyrics, and this is the problem: the only reflection they see is their own loneliness, dissapointments and failurs, and as i said earlier, if their are no alternatives, then for the child in november spawned a monster (and god know's, where must be ten's of thousands of people like her in society) it will only mean her undoing. for her and others like her, whether they be deformed, ugly, crippled by shyness...coming to morrissey will only mean to remain in suffering, dissapointment and a life of despair. in short morrissey only ever offers descriptions, never perscriptions. he is a philoshophical and spiritual deadend.
when i say christianity is an alternative, it is only one. i am sure there are many others that do not require faith. i just wish morrissy would occasionally mention some of them in his work.
people who don't like morrissey's music always say they find it too depressing, but he cannot help that, the people he writes about will always lead unhappy lives. yet others who come to morrissey's music find it a profoundly consoling experience.why? because they identify their lives with the lives of the characters in his lyrics. and this is why morrissey inspires love, devotion and worship stronger that any other figure in popular music. he acts as a substitute form of recongnition from that of society. and maybe morrissey has even saved lives for this reason.
now i want to bring in november spawned a monster and get too the point of this piece. the figure in this song is a child of suffering, a twisted and ugly woman. she will never know happiness like other people; never will she be able to enter the social roles that the majority take for granted - love, marriage, motherhood, a sucssesful carrer - and even trying will only end in her humiliation. so if there is no alternative to these, if there is nothing higher, then she is lost, absolutly lost. all she has is her pride and inner dignity, but all that society can offer her is pity,and for pride, there's no greater posion than pity. so what can she do? where can she go? well, she could spent her life in and out of doctors surgerys or on psychiatrist couches, popping pills and taking advise; but this would only be an expiedient to ease her suffering; it will never help her find meaning for her life. so what should she do? where should she go?
as i said earlier, morrissey acts as a subtitute recongnition for people (most people who love morrissey will use him in this sense during difficult periods in their lives). in this sense he is similar to christianity, in that they both attract the anguished and offer substitute forms of recongnition to that of society's; but, and this is my critisism of morrissey, in christianity, the individual not only finds recongnition of himself, he also gains a prodiguos hope ( eternal life)and a new qualitive meaning to their life. morrissey on the other hand, offer only a negative recongnition. he speaks generally of unhappy lives, and people will see their own lives reflected in his lyrics, and this is the problem: the only reflection they see is their own loneliness, dissapointments and failurs, and as i said earlier, if their are no alternatives, then for the child in november spawned a monster (and god know's, where must be ten's of thousands of people like her in society) it will only mean her undoing. for her and others like her, whether they be deformed, ugly, crippled by shyness...coming to morrissey will only mean to remain in suffering, dissapointment and a life of despair. in short morrissey only ever offers descriptions, never perscriptions. he is a philoshophical and spiritual deadend.
when i say christianity is an alternative, it is only one. i am sure there are many others that do not require faith. i just wish morrissy would occasionally mention some of them in his work.