A lot of this interview seems strange...... is this a real interview? Was something lost in the translation? I wonder......
-Iamawas posing as a coward

I just finished reading this supposed interview and it just doesn't click. For one, I can't believe Morrissey would "listen to whatever's on the radio"! Here is a man so complex and deep, and yet is made out to listen mindlessly to anything that happens to be on the air? I don't believe Moz listens to Britney, Mariah or Christina as well as Oasis because that would be what the staement indicates(or at least how I translate it). The rest of the interview sounds a bit like my description of the concert at the 9:30 club in DC and like many others that have been posted during the tour. I'll stick my neck out and say "I don't buy it!" But, again, that's just my opinion says me, says I, says no one.

I still cant belive just how many of you are mindless twats....

"I dont buy this interview"...blah, blah, blah..

"There is no way he listens to that"...blah, blah, blah

"He didnt say that he dosent like Black Music"...blah, blah, blah(dont kid yourself, you know what "Black Music" is....if you dont belive me...walk up to any random person an ask them what black music is)

I just dont understand how clouded your view of Morrissey is. He is human, he is just another person in reality. He is entitled to like, dislike, and hate whatever he wants....and just because there is a conflict between your bad tastes and his taste...you rush to say, "Oh, well I dont beive it. Its just not tue."

Do you here how stupid and pathetic that sound?

Let him like whatever he likes....you want to turn him into a fantasy. Nobody is perfect, according to your preception of perfection, no matter how hard you want them to be.

The truth is....Morrissey probably loves many, many things that YOU probably hate!

Many of you have the worst taste in clothes I have EVER seen. (thats my popular opinion)...and some of you have good taste...while he has great taste in clothes.(Tom Ford RULES)

I wonder what he thinks when he sees some of you screaming for him...probably..."Oh dear god, who dressed that person"

We dot all have to like the same things. I find some of his tastes a bit wierd....but who cares..to each his own reason.

Just stop trying to make Morrissey somthing he is not....and let him be what he is.

P.S. Personally, and I know Im gonna get ripped for this one, I think Oasis is miles, even light years better than those hacks Gene...I mean dear god what a bunch of rip-offs...at least they could have done a good job at it...similar to Suede/Bowie....but they are really bad....personally, that means in my opinion...I think Morrissey even gives them any time because well imitation is the ultimate form......hes got n ego, and Im sure he likes it stroked.

For those many of you who think that I am mad...Listen to "Still Cant Find The Phone" on Genes Olympian CD......TOTAL FUCKING RIPOFF of "Why dont you find out for yourself"

Ciao!

 

To borrow a Green Day title, Morrissey is a "walking contradiction."

Learn it.

Know it.

Firstly, a great, big THANK YOU to Monica. I very much enjoyed the translation.

Secondly, to anyone who's ever read "Morrissey: In his own words", much of his philosophy is still intact. Sorry, but Rap is racist music to me as well. The entire music scene is going to hell, why do you think the Smashing Pumpkins are breaking up? Its shameful to see mindless acts like Britney Smears, Spears (pardon me), gobble up a lion's share of record sales because she has a flat tummy. Hey, so does Morrissey!

As for contradictions, well Moz reserves the right to change his mind and to have a little fun sometimes.

Cheers!

does morrissey lie a lot or something? five years ago a magazine reported that he finished a novel. a couple years later he denied it and said his interest is in music. he also has been saying he has tons of new songs. now he says he doesn't. what a dumbass.

I don't find it hard to believe that Morrissey listens to whatevers on the radio. After all, doesn't it seem like he spends a lot of his free time watching tele talk shows like Ricki Lake, Jenny Jones, and/or Springer... what with all those little comments he's made throughout the past tour. It definitely wouldn't surprise me one bit if he's listening to or has listened to Spears, et al. Hey, he lives in L.a. now, a city diverse in music and culture. It's hard to avoid it all.

come on, how can anyone believe this interview is true????????????????? morrissey went directly from the auditorio nacional to the hotel presidente intercontinental. most of the band was chatting with fans in the lobby, morrissey in his suite, so please, i mean.

"Like in rap or in reggae, where blacks manifest themselves as a superior race..."

you know what -- i dig Morrissey's music, but shit, he really is an ignorant ass sometimes.

this is bullshit -- i'd like to think something was lost or misunderstood somewhere in the translation, but i don't know if i can.

Well, firstly I appreciate the effort of the translator, but I find most of it nonsensical.
Secondly, I would imagine that some things were lost, and some were added in the translation.
Thirdly, what the hell is all this nastiness for?
What is it with you people? Why all the hate and anger?
Take it easy on each other, anonymity is no excuse for bad behaviour.

well, I don't know about the interviewer himself, but, believe me: Monica's translation seemed to be quite right. I'm a Spaniard and sometimes I find America's varieties of spanish a bit funny but the difference isn't as big, so I can say I understood both the original and the translation without problem and don't think anything essential was lost in between.
I was also...surprised, to say the least, when I read the original article and I found Moz entertaining and paradoxical as usual. It was really funny.
anyway, I never take those interviews too seriously, I just read them and have a laugh or two.
I know I'm being really heavy, but...guys, that thing about not having new songs... isn't he brilliant?

Look at the interview! Whoever spoke to him obviously didn't sit with him for 2 hours. Did it happen? Not that I can confirm or deny, but think of all the other things that he said in interviews that did or did not come to pass, and well, you aren't doing any worse if the writer faked it or if Morrissey said it all.

I can picture him saying he doesn't have any songs. Why? Because that's what he does.

And what sort of novel would Morrissey write, and would he actually have it published after cringing at his own early efforts about James Dean? I keep seeing courtroom drama.

And is it shocking that he has a radio in his car? Maybe he only listens to CDs in the car. He didn't say. He's a busy guy on the go with his shopping trips and all, and you need music!

Also, maybe you people were duped. maybe they told you that he was in his hotel room just so you would leave him alone. There is more than one exit, and him being Morrissey, I'm sure the hotel staff was happy to show it to him! :^)

First of all, don't blame the translator, the interview had surprised me when I read the original, then reading it in English just clarified some points.
The original's narrative is confusing: the journalist psychologically set the hall of the hotel Four Seasons in first place as the place of the interview just to say that it did not happen there after all, and then suggests that it happened in a disco after the show (if I got it right this time). The journalist narrated his own day, his own experience to get the interview, so we have a chronicle rather than an objective interview.
Now, a little attempt to interpret it: it does not seem logical that somebody going to a disco complains about disco songs. I don't know much about Morrissey's habits, but at least here (Porto) he went straight way to the hotel after the show, according to the local newspapers. And some of the posts here are saying that he was at a different hotel than the Four Seasons, but then the Four Seasons could be used just to a press conference (cancelled) in this case.
That's hardly surprising that he says he sometimes listen to Bowie's and Tricky's songs, as for the Prefab Sprouts well, could be, why not really. And that's not the end of the world if he listens to Oasis. But that thing about saying that he does not have any new songs, when he told everybody else about the difficulties to release his new album...!!! My first impression was that the interview was a fake, and now I see that I'm not the only one to have this opinion.

I believe that we have soundly, sufficiently and voraciously beaten this dead horse. Let us pause, bow our heads, and pray for new and exciting news with which we can amuse and berate each other.

This, of course, is only my opinion!!! LMAO!

Isn't tricky "black music"...

That sucks. That was a really great article. Perhaps the best review i've read so far from the press. Maybe that's why it was so good. Because it wasn't the press at all.

The journalist lies because Morrissey didn´t give any interview to any mexican media. So, it is very strange and suspicious that an argentine journalist achieved an interview in Mexico!!! Furthermore, Morrissey´s words seem to have been directly extracted from others interviews. The source isn't reliable. I´m mexican.

Cheers to all who took this for what it was. FALSE! It just goes to show how anyone can hurt a person's reputation by spewing trash like this interview across the media. Look back at the responses and think of how you responded. Did you jump to conclusions quickly and label Morrissey a racist, loser or liar? Or did you take into consideration that you can't believe everything you read. I trust David's word that the interview is fake. It confirms my initial gut feeling.

You've just been part of Morrissey's on-going battle with unscrupulous press.