Re: Release information and tracklisting for Morrissey's new album, World Peace Is None Of Your Busi
Here's a mad theory! 'Smiler With Knife' COULD have been inspired by the 1939 Cecil Day-Lewis novel 'The Smiler With the Knife: A Nigel Strangeways Mystery' (written under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake, and which was to be made into a film directed by and starring Orson Welles: until he scrapped the idea and made Citizen Kane instead).
I know it's much more likely that the song in question is actually about the long-forgotten Solo user 'smiler', so hopefully I won't get labelled as a 'conspiracy theorist' for putting this idea out there!
The title of the Day-Lewis novel was taken from a line in Chaucer's 'The Knight's Tale': "the smiler with the knife under the cloak; the stable burning with the black smoke; the treason and the murder in the bed"; and I happened to mention Chaucer in a post a few days ago so perhaps the song is actually about me?! Who are we kidding, all the songs are about me! Take this snippet of 'Mountjoy' for instance, which I heard when my good friends at Capitol Records recently granted me an exclusive listening party:
"Mozambiguous, ahh Mozambiguous/ the Mandingoest linguist this side of Phibsboro and Finglas!/ it would be a 'joy' to pin and 'mount' you/ but you're too busy debunking my hypocrisies online to bow to/ my excessive demands, and you're too much of a man, which I alas am not/ now what have I got?/ Just my genderless humasexuality, so please, I ask/ that you take me to Mountjoy and give me the 'gas'!".
Explicit and implicit references to Mozambiguous aside, I expect 'Smiler With Knife' to either be about betrayal (Mike Joyce, high court judges, record company executives), or animal slaughter (Jamie Oliver, Melissa Bachman) - hardly new territory, despite the initial intrigue upon seeing the song titles. As for a possible first single: 'Earth is the Loneliest Planet', or 'World Peace' seem the likeliest choices, at first glance. After fearing for a time that 'People Are the Same Everywhere' would be the lead single, 'Earth is the Loneliest Planet' should continue that thought provoking issue of 'people as incorrigibly useless, vacant shells' which Morrissey has recently been so adamant about highlighting.
"Earth is the loneliest planet/ oh, leave me alone with the dirt and soil/ how on Earth do I manage/ to toil my way through a planet despoiled/ by vacuous people from whom I recoil?/ Banish them all to Mars along with the 'Royals'/ the soil, the edible soil, ohhhh/ With that my life may have finally begun/ To be on the safe side blast them off towards the Sun/ oh please do, now it's not so lonely here/ in the absence of human touch I finally belong somewhere/ ohhh, Dendrophilia is me!/ It has come with the key!/ I am attracted to trees!/ But of course... not many/ la la la (to fade)."
Thanks Capitol!
No Billy. Moazambiguous is a Brummie wannabe.
Correction, I'm Brummie's understudy, and his spiritual son. It must kill you that I'm already in the top three posters on this site, despite having posted less than thirty times. I'm gaining a following, while you have over 1,000 posts and still you're unknown! So you're reduced to taking pot-shots at one of the Alpha Top Dogs, in an attempt to make a name for yourself at my expense. Obviously Brummie and I are kindred spirits, being two 'Mad Paddies'. I have read and absorbed his Blog, Twitter, Facebook, and numerous newspaper site comments, all with the long term goal of becoming Kingpin once he decides to step down. Whether I plan on usurping him while he remains on his throne remains to be seen! Despite it being a golden rule that the Peaky Blinder/Malvern Massive don't turn on each other (everybody else is fair game, LOL!), my thirst for power and influence may become insatiable! After all, I am the 'smiler with knife'.
Yours, et insatiabiles cupiditates!!
Mozambiguous. (the Mad Paddy from......?? -wink-)
