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from Toronto's NOW Magazine (http://www.now.com)
July 25, 1997

Mozzer still whining after all these years
By TIM PERLICH

MORRISSEY Maladjusted (Mercury)
Rating: N


A string of commercial flops would be indication enough for most artists that something isn't clicking. Call it arrogance or ignorance, but Morrissey still hasn't gotten his head around the fact that many people find it difficult to relate to the woe-is-me whining of fabulously wealthy pop stars who spend their days lounging in the Olympic-size swimming pools of their multimillion-dollar estates. For the relentlessly dreary Maladjusted (out Tuesday on vinyl, next week on CD), the moan-prone crooner again returns to his losing strategy of neurotic whimpering, unwisely overlooking the essential importance of the tune. That's not to suggest that poor dear Mozzer should freeze a false grin on his face and hum happy ditties, but he really needs to get beyond the Trouble Loves Me and Satan Rejected My Soul crap — he's not fooling anyone. The viciously bitchy Sorrow Will Come In The End, which seems to be directed at former Smiths drummer Mike Joyce — who recently dragged Morrissey through the courts in a battle over unpaid royalties — is an embarrassing career low.