I think you're confused: no one said that it did. Thank you for the PSA, of course. Neil Patrick Harris and Rachel Maddow want a group hug.
I don't know who Neil Patrick Harris and Rachel Maddow are. I'm afraid I don't 'do' group hugs.
I appreciate that you're above feeling, you big intellectual. I also like that you spell "commentary" the way you probably pronounce it. Professor Higgins will see you now. As for the label of "social commentary," it's wonderfully vague. Anything can be social commentary. My point? You lack one.
Oh dear. Have you got a bit of a chip on your shoulder? I never said/implied I was 'above feeling' or that I was a 'big intellectual'. As you rightly pointed out, I can't even spell - but maybe you should check your original post for mistakes before you start criticising others? Yes, the label of 'social commentary' is vague - that was my point. It didn't make me feel anything in particular, because like pretty much everything it's general comment and open to interpretation.
This is an interesting portrait of Morrissey as McGruff the Crime Dog. I remember his past warnings about the nasty Kray brothers and other criminal types, for whom he famously has such contempt.
Don't know who McGruff is - is he like Droopy? Don't get your knickers in a twist over that little paragraph - it's was just a general summing up.
But do you know what the word "we" means, TheReader? Perspective, yes, I know, perspective, but humor me. You are told to bolt-lock your doors and alarm your cars as "we" move in closer every day. "And still" we move in closer--this is called
taunting. Your precautions won't help you. We're "ambitious," after all. He's taunting the law-abiding breeders of the suburbs--and you think he's on their side, rather than that of some "scum"? Why are "we" there? The agenda is spelt out immediately: "Top of the list/Is your smiling kids." The point is reiterated in the next verse--Moz knows how dumb some of his fans are, possibly!
This is all pretty basic.
Morrissey himself--how eager some of you are to ignore his own words, as Mark Simpson has said--says that the song is "creeping towards" being a "NAMBLA theme song," as the interviewer had just put it.
I did include that because I thought it was relevant? Just a bit? The writer's own words, about the aspect of the song I'm addressing? Hm? Everyone seems to be ignoring that, though! Is it inconvenient to your image of Morrissey?
Now, the matter of perspective, of characterization. What does Morrissey think, of the people discussed in the song? Again, the title: "Ambitious Outsiders"--not "scum," as you put it. Does the label "ambitious outsiders" sound very critical to you? If "we" are not the "ambitious outsiders," then who are? And what are "we" up to? We're hanging around bus stops, and picking locks.
Does "ambitious outsiders" sound like the phraseology of "scum" to you? Do you think they're applying this label to themselves? Could Morrissey be playing a character in the song, one with whom he doesn't sympathize? Sure, if you think the character titled the song. I'm pretty sure Morrissey titled it, though, as it's typical of his phraseology, not that of "scum." And I'm pretty sure Morrissey likes both ambition and outsiders--and the appearance of tremendous transgression.
Thanks for that. I've always had trouble with the word 'we'. And don't worry, I'm sure pretty much everyone in your life is 'humouring' you (that's the English spelling btw). With regard to those last few paragraphs - meh. That's your interpretation, I've got a different one. So very sorry (really) that I didn't spend ages extrapolating it in great detail for your benefit, but it's a general comment on a Morrissey forum, not a thesis. Get some perspective mate and maybe a shag - you seem very frustrated.
Morrissey's attitudes toward the Moors killers and other criminals are ambiguous, to say the least. The rest of the interview--try reading it, though I expect it will give you no end of trouble--covers his love of dark material.
Condemning criminals isn't "dark." If you want to understand the tradition Morrissey belongs to, read an Andre Gide novel. I'm sure you'll come away thinking it a cautionary tale about becoming too close with one's nephew.
His attitude towards the Moors killers isn't ambiguous. I have read the interview before, although it was quite a while ago - easy peasy lemon squeezy - and have also read some Gide (not all of it - again, so sorry). You assume I haven't and then tell me what I'll think about it.
To sum things up: your user name here is quite ironic, TheReader!
It's not ironic - because you're wrong (see above) about so many things. And you're making assumptions again. I could have chosen 'TheReader' because I love to read - but in that case what do I read (I'm sure you'll tell me)? Proust or The Hungry Caterpillar? And if I did choose the name for that reason, and if I do read Proust - does it mean I think I'm an intellectual or any sort of authority. No it doesn't. Don't project onto me matey.
But 'Reader Meet Author' is also the title of a Morrissey song that I happen to love. Great guitars.
What reverence for Z-list authorities! I'm sorry you're not bright enough to understand Morrissey, a trait you share with at least one of the mods. Each of us has his cross to bear. I'll take being banned from a dead forum for knuckle-dragging suck-ups over perpetually, comically misunderstanding my favorite artist.
There's that great big chip on your shoulder again - but as you say, it's your cross to bear. And those that know you obviously - poor sods. I suppose they get a bit of respite though when you come back to a 'dead forum', to make wrong assumptions and tell people what they think - again wrongly. But, yes, if only we 'understood' Morrissey as well as you do. Is this 'understanding' based on your uncanny abilities to wrongly assume, read minds and interpret interviews in a way that suits you and which are, in any case, the subjective opinion of the interviewer and so already biased? In that case your 'understanding' of Morrissey is as flawed and totally inaccurate as your 'understanding' of me.
Good point, entirely possible, but I still think that people who are "keeping the population down" are being pinpointed as the opposition to those I've been calling "breeders"--with their reprehensibly smiling kids, their delightfully vulnerable locks and bus stops, etc.
Wow - you're sharp! What a unique and original viewpoint. 
And 'breeders' - I think you invented that term! Very well done. I'm sure anon x will be able to sleep better at night knowing you agree. Vaidation from you - it's what we're all hoping for.
Incidentally, is anyone bothered by Morrissey's pro-rape song, "It's Not Your Birthday Anymore"? I feel so badly for the
woman in that song, don't you?!
Am I bovvered? Is my face bovvered? No.
It's catchy!
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