.. but at least there isn't new material on the 7" this time.

and then buy the deluxe edition of refusal in four months where every song is re-released on cd

Order through recordstore.co.uk all three for £5, about $16 total with shipping to the USA.

Moz had quite the look in this video.

White setting with dogs walking about and I'm sure I can see dog turds on the floor.

That video was amazing- in style, it was not unlike Playboys and Fatty.

P.S. Who do the lovely little dogs belong to?

White everywhere - Mozza had so much make up on he looked like a paris mime. Great song but too short, and the dogs with deely boppers on? WTF? lol

It's really badly mimed... I would have preferred it if it seemed like he was actually singing it..

Firstly I love the song, even if a little short. It seems to be a return to form with something a little more mellow.

He does indeed look the oldest we have seen him, but thats because he is the oldest weve seen him now, so I guess its inevitable.

But am I the only one who noticed that he seems to pronounce some of the words with quite an obvious lisp, that certainly never used to be there? At least not to this degree?

Everything Morrissey does these days you people rubbish with your boring ranting. WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO PLEASE YOU PEOPLE! This may not have been as good as previous videos but at least he is still making videos. I think that both the video and the single are great. He still sounds fresh and energetic even although he is in his 50th year of life.

A great new album (with the best album art since Vauxhall and I) and a great new single ... but the worst video I've seen in a long time.

Why do you do it Morrissey? How can someone so creative allow such crap to represent his material to the world?

Basically, Morrissey (sorry, but looking a tad tubby) and band (Boz looking VERY tubby) stand in a completely white room pretending to play the song while pugs (ugly small dogs) walk around.

Morrissey looks old - like he's 60 rather than 50 - while dancing about like a toddler at a wedding disco and he's wearing a lot of mascara, and a frilly shirt. Some might say he looks like a mime artiste - I say he looks like a transvestite ... and that's the whole video concept in a nutshell.

It makes the videos for "You Have Killed Me" and "Irish Blood, English Heart" look like masterpieces. I know Morrissey has never gone all out with his videos, but this was a real low in my opinion. I never want to see it again - it made me feel ashamed and embarrassed for my favourite artist.

Simple things piss me off. This release stated the screening would take place at midnight. I put the telly on at 11:56 and it had already finished. When I checked the programming schedule, sure enough Morrissey was on at 11:50 through 11:55. Not the end of my life, but enough to send me to bed cranky...

just curious of anyone posted it there? would be great to see this.
thanks

I haven’t even seen this Paris video that you are so concerned with. All I can say is even if Morrissey looked ninety-nine or even if he looked old, it wouldn’t change how beautiful he is to me. Even if Morrissey looked like the guy in Jane Eyre I would love him just as much as I do right now. If he looked like the elephant man, it wouldn’t change the fact that he will always be attractive to me. You monsters are just superficial senseless brain dead low lives who dwell on the most ridiculous superficial traits that you don’t even realize you’re gonna do that and become worthless pieces of shit. Morrissey is attractive and shall remain attractive. Actually he is the most good looking attractive man in the world. And I have something else to say, you monstrosities and science projects, you don’t know what love is. It’s sad really. And you’re just jealous. Low lives with no lives. It’s sad what you are. That’s the way it goes with you people. You lost your marbles. You think oh wow man, how bad you really hurt him. Reality check -- Morrissey doesn’t give three flying fucks what you monsters think of him.

Well.....

the singer in "Blue Velvet" who sang "In Dreams"..."Candy coated clown they called the sandman..." Moz should have had the utility light for a microphone and they would be twins...he is looking a bit pasty these days...

At least on of the doggies was a French Bulldog. Not sure what the other one was. It didn't look like a French Bulldog. :)

Fran

Boz needs to throw his arms around a treadmill...

Conceptual video; Morrissey had died and gone to doggie heaven.

You didn't really expect a video of him trolling around Paris, did you? That would have been pig-shit obvious. Besides, is it really wise to blow away money on production for a video when the rest of the world is struggling through tough economic times? That would just be more ammunition for the haters. Instead, this is a typical Moz-doesn't-care-about-music-video video with just him and the band doing their thing.

The video serves its purpose with what limited exposure it will get. The one being shown Monday should be a better quality version.

Sometimes these stark white background give off and reflect studio lighting giving the film an overexposed look. That's why make up may be used to accentuate feature like around the eyes. You see that often in silent films. How cinematique Moz.

Nice moment when Moz bends down to greet the little pooch and the pooch waddles away. Nobody wants his love, indeed!

Overall, nice video. Reminds me a little of "Playboys" with the minimal background. All your attention is to Moz and the song, with a nice cameo shot of Boz tooting away.

Videos are not his strength. He nevers makes elaborated ones. There is too much brightness here. Almmost everything is white. And the angles are all coming out as if Wooddy Allen's character (that one in which he plays a director struck by blindess)has made it. It's as if he's asking us, "do you expect me to make a dramatic music clip with me wandering around one of the Eiffel Towers levels at night?" He is clearly mocking the video business - and I am just commenting, not severly criticising him: the doggies, the guy jumping, "hey, this music video business is just a circus".

I prefer the live version of this song as well - not that this one is "bad" - but the tempo is a bit faster in this video, and in the shows, it is slower, and that suits this song better. Oh, well, much ado about nothing; I love the song, he's got great stage presence and that is more than enough. But I'd rather pass the video, thanks.

You can tell the dogs didn't wanna be anywhere near that band. You can see the Snausages they put all over the place to get the dogs to walk around. Those doggies wanted to go home and chill, not endure this grueling video shoot with loud drums and stuff hurting their ears. You can see the one dog doesn't want Moz shoving that tamborine in his face.

That after the video there's an ad for a documentary on a "half ton son" from Texas.

I think my fellow Americans should stop attacking Moz's appearance in this thread. He is ageing very gracefully. Now shut up and stop feeding your children Big Macs.

Notice how Boz doesn't have to wear a white t-shirt? This is because he is not a "lawnmower part" and is better paid than the others.

I can't bring myself to watch over just to check quite how seriously awful that was.

-Anin(but I'm starting to wonder why)

Morrissey is in danger, however, of being upstaged by the French Bulldog in deely-boppers. : D

           

Who is the drummer?? Looks like Spencer, but that's too good to be true!

Decca: please splurge for a billboard in the City of Lights to promote this single (and upcoming album). The French will love this song and the video, but first they have to know it exists!

As with any Youtube clip you can watch a high-res version by adding &fmt=18 to the end of the link, as in:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7_Nps1WhFQ&fmt=18

You can see those ol' blue eyes better.

Morrissey looks super pale in the video :(

The song is very boring, i mean nothing new nothing exciting here. same old moz banter
the lyrics aren't even deep, witty or innovative

yes, I'm harsh. but i still love him

Cool.

I love the fact that there's a clarinet in the song and video. It goes well alongside the flute on Quarry.

Yes you've made yourself plain, Yes you've made yourself VERY plain.

Is it me, or is this music video sped up...?

Or at least pitched up?

It could be the tinny speakers on my macbook, but it sound quicker, and higher -- all around.

No?

-ALEC

P.S.: The 'X should be throwing their arms around Y' jokes are always amazing.

i really LOVE the videoclip! it's so simple and fresh!

couldn't tell if was morrissey or robert smith with all that make up. ITMAAP is a great song but moz needs to leave the videos to the MTV generation.

I can´t think of a better way I could have started this Sunday...the video put me in a really good mood. It´s funny!
It´s so typical Morrissey that it makes me smile all the time. The dramatic gestures, the neverending self-pitty...& to top it, a touch of absurdity added by the dogs. :-)

Is the jump over the drums becoming some kind of trademark? I love it.

Looking forward to June!!

I really enjoyed the simplicity of this video.

It frames a beautiful (if somewhat brief) elegy to romantic despair in a way that emphasises the core elements of the vocal performance.

There is no superfluous 'visual co-efficient' storyboard to interrupt my initial responses to the song. Promotional videos can really annoy if they're crass, as future listenings always trigger disturbing intrusive flashbacks of bogus images.

Morrissey appears entirely comfortable in his near-50 year old skin. In an age of botox, photoshop and vaseline lens evasion, it's nourishing to encounter the raw physicality of a performer unimpaired by record company airbrushing. This is just like using my opera glasses at the Birmingham Symphony Hall.

My only quibble is that the fascinating canines do not get enough face-time.

I always thought he'd confront the ageing taboo as he has confronted so many other useless inhibitions. The mock-horrified response to his ironic use of his own youthful iconic image (in a playful ironic gesture on the 'Greatest Misses' CD) confused some into thinking he would flinch from the challenge.

Still, if he did wield the scalpel, I'm sure he'd make a better job of it than Pete Burns, Madonna or George Osborne.

I don't always approve of Morrissey as a role-model for young people, but I hope this gets played on the newly resucitated Top of The Pops alongside Girls Aloud. If both artists are featured, it will make it worth enduring the usual silly Oasis / U2 / (C)oldplay clone 'dad-rock' which always interupts the exciting gyrations of the latest 'pop' sensations.

This has really got my Sunday Morning off to a nice start and I will be humming this as I walk my Westie on a cold, blustery winter's day here in England.

He looks ill, he looks old, the boys look bored. Its quite possibly his worst video since Alma Matters. Awful.

The song is great, the video terrible.

This is a Gap commercial. What the fuck is with all the dogs. Has he TOTALLY lost his fucking MIND?

God, Morrissey. Please WAKE UP NOW.

Remember when you were young and HATED making videos because of shit EXACTLY LIKE THIS?

C'mon, man. You're better than this. Way better.

It just keeps getting worse, doesn't it?

I almost feel that it's planned. Of course, in a way it is. Morrissey doesn't take his career seriously anymore.

He continues to release material to promote his tours because that's how he actually makes money.

I think being made up as a glam corpse gives everyone a clue to Moz's state of mind at the moment...at least the song is short!

I love it when he makes this video-deprecating videos. Although the drum-jump (cf. All you need is me video) becomes a bit repetitive.

Nice to have dogs on the floor (well I gather it'd be difficult to have them in mid-air) and a white background!

Nice Vid, typical Moz. Love the blue eye shadow!
He is growing old gracefully. Love it.

I feel quite depressed.
Is Morrissey having an identity crisis?
First we had the babe in arms - the weird inverted Madonna and Child image
Then the Etro shirt which was lovely
Now pug dogs and eye shadow - who is he, Eddie Izzard or is he auditioning for La Cage aux Folles ?
I know 50 is a landmark birthday but it really doesn't explain all this.

...song/disappointing video.

On second thoughts forget the word 'disappointing' - both song and video are absolutely dire.

Dorrissey (wearing brown eye shadow and silly jewellery in video) needs a good kick in the arse as a songwriter. When is he going to move away from this 'corporate (give me money) melancholy'?

It really is pathetic for a 50 year old man to try and deceive his audience into thinking he is a lonely/desolate troubadour when in fact he has more in common with your average corporate C.E.O than he does with anyone on this forum.

As a writer he never stops feeling sorry for himself and as for the music, the pub rock vibe just goes on and on and on...

One would have thought that after being brought back into the fold over five years ago (the maudlin self pity was justified when he didn't have a record deal) and after startling commercial success he would actually stick his neck out, artistically, and start being innovative.

Dream on. It's never going to happen. His career from this point onwards is just going to be Quarry/Tormentors/Refusal all mashed up with mediocre 'please feel sorry for me' songs forever and ever.

Not that he cares of course. His eye has always been on the spreadsheet and rarely on the music sheet.

I think everyone would agree that all his work from The Smiths right up to and including the much maligned but gorgeous 'Malajusted' - included songs of outstanding merit. We the punters got value for money in those days. He had something to sing then - and sang it very well.

His output has been so awful in recent years that I wish now he had never got the record deal with Attack - the absence of a record deal might have preserved his standing as a songwriter, for posterity!

Now it seems that only his reputation as a self absorbed moaner/whiner/malcontented narcissist that shall survive him. He is destroying his own legacy as I write.

Pathological greed and the pursuit of even more cash than what he has already (he must be worth at least $30,million dollars at this point!) has been his downfall artistically - and this continues as long as you people continue to 'subscribe' to his artistic and musical demise.

One recalls one of his famous quotes:

"Madonna's career is nothing short of organized prostitution...".

Three words spring to mind at this particular moment.

Kettle, pot & black.

Madonna's career is totally corporate - but she could never be accused of being mediocre, complacent, stuck in an artistic rut, or indeed smug.

She has always pushed out the boat artistically - unlike someone we 'know'.

if it weren't for the doggies, and the dark makeup in his eyes, and the grandmalike necklace he's wearing, it would be too heavy with the song. something humourous has to come in to balance the whole business of chronic deprivation. It's like a Chaplin movie, really, where tragic is so tragic it becomes humanly absurd and the absurdity makes it funny. The camera effet is not so bad either: filming him from the top, throwing his hands up, half-bending his knees... yeah, i was too harsh in judging the video. still prefer him on stage though.

Did anyone else happen to hear the snippet of 'Every Day Is Like Sunday' playing in the background of the 'NFL on CBS' television advert yesterday?

Quite bizarre...really!

How many times can he sing variations of the phrase "Nobody wants my love" to millions of loving fans before getting smacked in the face? Anyway, his left cheek in this video looks bruised, so maybe someone beat me to it!

The video is terrible. Boring, uncreative tripe.

Morrissey looks older than time itself and his movements and camp poses are ridiculous, seeing as how he's now 50 years old.

He should grow up and act his age.

Vegas, here he comes!

no need to make this kind of video. Ugly make up, non sense in it really useless

Seems that Decca have full confidence in their new signing if this is the video budget they extend. And how many times are they going to jump over the drum kit - I'll expect to see that at the next live show!

I was looking forwards to watching this video very much, and apart from being a little surprised, I dont think it warrants the barrage of abuse its getting.

As much as no-one wants their heroes to age, Moz is nearly 50, he doesnt look bad for it, despite some poorly chosen eye shadow!

The video is a little bizzare, but its 1000 times better than watching some over-choreographed boy band, x factor, pop idol crap.

As for the song, I think its one of his better of late, I like it very much, its just a shame theres not another minute or so of it.

I look forward to the single, the album, and the gigs in may. I just hope im not stood next to anyone from the "morrissey is crap now, everything he does is crap" brigade. Otherwise I may have to dish out a crack on the head or two.

From what I read, I couldn’t believe it. I just don’t understand. It’s an adorable video. Do you “fans” have something against his videos ... I mean, it’s already been established yous have something against Morrissey. But I already know who orchestrated this plan. I said it a million times and I’ll say it again. It is the end result of the “enemy’s” libel and slander. So keep carrying on, if I could stop you I would. But you thugs and doormats with your so called information insist upon ruining his reputation and his career. You compile your haunting lies and it continuos, but the “enemy” is responsible technically, they are the ones that I blame for this cloud over his name -- look at what you’ve done. So, I see how this conspiracy by the “enemy” is going to end. Justice shall prevail. There is justice to meet out.
Anyways, getting back to you Nickie, I have something to say to you ... there is a cloud over your name. There is a cloud over your name ... you understand.

I’ve mentioned before that I literally love the song Paris. I also stated months ago that I know all about some aspects of the song Paris. Paris Hilton’s family box if you trace her family line back like a hundred years or less - maybe, her family was from Ireland. So, there is a little bit of a reference to Paris Hilton. But then, there is a lot of other symbolic, cryptic meanings to the specifications of the lyrics of this beautiful, well written song.

I understand all of Morrissey’s intentions regarding this adorable video and this impeccable song.
Morrissey is so special, unique and more good looking than the young Elvis Presley. But I don’t care if he got fat one day, or if he looked old one day ... I’m just pointing out the facts at this moment.

It’s all about how I feel about Morrissey and feelings are never wrong. And please keep this in mind ... as one gets older, one gets wiser. And when you look at the cover of YOR, you are looking at Morrissey and on the cover he is holding the beautiful baby Sebastien who he is so blessed to raise. Sebastien is his responsibility.
I have never in my entire life seen such a display of strangers who call yourselves “fans”. I just don’t understand the reasons.
You are looking at Morrissey on the cover who carries in his arms, his son. But you, you thugs, doormats, whatever you victims are, well you can’t make sense of any of this. Now send yourselves back to where you came from. Look at what you’ve done. And keep dwelling on The Smiths, then validate reality here ... that didn’t exactly work out, now did it ... you understand. You just want what you want, but it’s Morrissey that is going to prevail. That’s what I want, and so it is written, and so it shall be done.

Thank You and Good night.