So, has anyone read it yet?

Thanks to the link provided, I immersed myself in the vivacious interview, which is interspersed with some great pics. The impression is of a man in the prime of his powers and good fortune, riding high on life with a happy heart. So far all's well with the world.

However I chanced upon a total contradiction to this last night, and all I can hope is that the forum printing this gloomy supposed quote may be often unreliable or prone to embellishment; or that Moz has just returned, ponderous, from a funeral, or something? Can anyone shed further light on this?

Article title: Morrissey says death is always nearby posted by femalefirst.co.uk - http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/1445520 04.htm - on 26th February, from London.

“British Rocker Morrissey Says He Thinks About Death All The Time And Is Depressed That He Has Spent So Many Years Making Himself A Better Person Because It Is Eventually Meaningless..
Morrisey (sic) believes everything is ultimately futile.

He says: "People don't last and it's the thinnest of lines that you step over and make that final journey. When you're younger you feel it's a great leap to take, but it isn't, it's the batting of an eyelid and you're no longer.
"All this brain matter you've been working on for the last 50 years, perfecting, and all these elongated words you now know and use, comes to nothing and you're rubble"….’

HE IS SO HOT! ... i could just die...right...now And he is old enough to be my father!

Wow, it's official:
Morrissey is gay.

I'm not saying this to be marked "flamebait" or whatever, but he is saying as much in the Mojo article when asked why he'd finally included a gender-specific lyric.

Moz, why did you destroy the mystery?!?

Read the article.

Weird.

MOJO:
In William E. Jones' film about US Morrissey fans, Is It Really So Strange?, the fans were saying that because your lyrics in the past have rarely been gender-specific, it's allowed a wide variety of different groups to identify with them. Now, with something like Dear God, Please Help Me on the new album... gender-specific.

MORRISSEY:
Yes.

MOJO:
Why?

MORRISSEY:
Am I running scared now? Whatever people invest within you, that's what you are and there's nothing I can do about that. People can say what they like. I can't really control how people view a situation so why obsess about it? And why set out to correct everybody on the planet with the view they have about you? That would be exhausting. And it's impossible.

MOJO:
But does it take a strong and content Morrissey to now be gender-specific in such a beautiful, well, love song?

MORRISSEY:
Many of the great love songs of all time are non-gender specific. Mine are, truthfully, innocent expressions of a somewhat primitive person. This innocence stops you from going any further. If you write in a non-gender specific way, you can be considered to be avoiding the bold truth, or speaking in code, or giving a knowing wink - I understand all of that, naturally. But I don't think I'd be any less of a conundrum to people if I actually wrote or sang in a deafeningly specific way. As I said earlier, I am simply inexcusably me.

This article doesn't prove anything.

He dodged the question once again in that delightfully frustrating style of his, basically saying "people can make of me want they wish".

Moz has also said that he doesn't believe in pigeonholing oneself in regard to gender preference. And I agree with him. I really do think that the gay/straight dichotomy just doesn't work when applied to a the complex mess that is human sexuality. I'm a man who is only physically attracted to other men, but I've had plenty of deep romantic feelings about women and fallen in love with 'em on a few occassions... I'd be fine sharing my life with either a guy or a girl.

All that said, whether Morrissey's gay or not, it's obvious he's attracted to men. So let's agree to disagree and rejoice in his love for the cock! I know I'd be a happy little monkey if he wanted to be with me, though of course the chances are much more likely that I'll spontaneously combust.

Moz isn't the cover star. Who is?

I think MOJO should be commended for this interview. The intelligent questions (by an interviewer who obviously has an interest in Morrissey entire body of work), the photos (the headstone shot is as classic as any in Moz history), even the fonts and colour scheme. It's a keeper. You can feel Morrissey's contentedness coming through the words -- so different than the sharky L.A. years.

How long will he be in love with Italy is the question. And what's next?

Thank goodness openness is now in season. Having to hide or evade things is so tiring and in the end, considering the likelihood of immortality and our ultimate insignificance on this earth, utterly pointless.

I shall dash out immediately and buy this uplifting piece. Yipee!

I particularly like the reporter's remark that ROTT, like Vauxhall, is in part a reaction to people rallying around Morrissey. It's as if Quarry was Moz reaching out, unsure whether anyone still cared. He was greeted with a resounding YES -

so now he's moving even closer...

   

Ok, so I haven't actually read the interview, but being as egotistical as I am I have to add my thoughts on the gay debate.

I don't think Morrissey is gay because-
a) I think he writes lyrics about both boys and girls
b) As an intelligent poster above points out, when it comes to sexuality, the lines are blurred
c) I think that Morrissey writes provocative lyrics because he likes the scandal of it (look at the fuss that's being kicked up on here!)
d) I am in denial

One thing is for sure- if I receive conclusive evidence that Morrissey does like the lads, I am getting a sex change.

As I thought, a smart and subtle interview, from an interviewer who Morrissey can connect with. M's comments are erudite, homourous, he seems wonderfully languid, obviously happy and is very, very beautiful.

That song was gender specific and it never caused a fuss. Can you imagine the uproar if the song was gender specific the other way, i.e. "Boyfriend In a Coma?" Morrissey gets bored and tries to manufacture controversy. Personally, I cannot relate to the new song which is causing so much discussion and I don't know if I would bother buying it, as it says nothing to me about my life......which is the whole point to a Morrissey album.

...and i don't think it's the "fur-wearing capital of the world".

they wondered how much this album and this interview will turn away some fans becos of its seeming nod toward Moz being homosexual and in love. whata farce.

first, neither the lyrics to "Dear God Please Help Me" nor the statements in this interview peg Morrissey in any specific way whatsoever. like he says, people can think whatever they wish but he's not about to attempt to explain himself to them and he hasnt here either. the only thing that Moz has ever really been solidly committed too in his life and in his art is vegetarianism.

secondly, even if Morrissey were to come out and announce that he was gay and he was getting married to some charming man, icant imagine that many of his fans would turn away from him becos of this. honestly, how many of you hold Morrissey's sexuality and marital/relationship status as being a deal breaker for whether or not you will continue to lov him and his music? whata ridiculous notion! anyone who has come this far with Moz only becos theyve been bankin on him being straight or single or unhappy has completely missed the point and is imbecilic beyond description. despite my often low impression of the majority of people, icannot imagine there are that many out there that are that misguided.

Although I never thought he would, I think the Moz with this latest album and its very gender specific lyrics, as well as follow up interviews with the likes of the half decent journalist from Mojo is moving ever nearer to finally 'outing' himself.

I don't think there will ever be a big pronoucement but I think just like Michael Stipe did back in the late nineties there will be a definitive remark in an interview that he is now in a fulfilling relationship with another man, the press will harp and bleat for 24 hours and then just like the Stipe declaration everyone will calm back down and concentrate on the music again, thank God. (That's Moz's music I mean not Stipes.)

But I swear in this interview reading between the lines he got very very close to just 'saying it'.

And no like alot of other fans it wouldn't change the meaning of the music for me. I am a straight man, and like alot of long time fans I'm reasonably sure that 'Come Back to Camden" was written about his relationship with Jake Walters.

However that doesn't change the power of the song for me, because such is it's lyrical potency I can place it in the context of my own life and it makes me cry (not for Jake Walters I might add).

So Moz good luck and god bless.

..being literal w#nkers!