posted by davidt
on Monday March 05 2001, @10:15AM
I did not confirm the original rumor but should probably be a bit more careful nowadays. Daniel sends:
Morrissey Turns Down Jade Tree
No, wait, that was Emo-rrissey
Josh Slobin reports:
Admit it. You love Morrissey. You own every Smiths LP. You quoted "I feel black on the outside/ 'Cause black is how I feel on the inside" in your high school yearbook, and you've even seen him live a few times. Yeah, we saw you sulking in the cheap seats. But now that you've found indie rock, there's no room in your life for a much-maligned (see 1997's Maladjusted) celebate crooner. Fortunately, Morrissey doesn't want you anymore, either.
Though not officially confirmed by the indie label, a comprehensive Morrissey fansite is claiming that the former Smiths frontman recently turned down a record deal from Jade Tree, which should be familiar to Pitchfork readers as the label for the Promise Ring, Pedro the Lion, Jets to Brazil, and Joan of Arc, among others. Morrissey hasn't spoken out about his latest recording plans since a 1999 article in The Irish Times, in which he claimed that he'd written songs for an album entitled Irish Blood, English Heart, but that he wouldn't begin recording without a contract. Too bad the Jade Tree deal didn't happen-- we would have looked forward to that Morrissey/The Explosion split seven-inch. Seriously.
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that surprising to me that Morrissey turned down
that record deal. I don't think he wants to belong
to the "indie world". Because what he does needs
to be required listening for anyone wanting to
develop good taste in music, he should never be
part of the brigade of the indie army. His music must be found seeping through every heating vent in every house on the globe...You know,
all those runny nosed youths with bad posture
lurking about, that is not his place! If Sinatra
were still on the planet, he had a record company
which he started on his own, now there's a deal
for him!