> If you have the time, please help me with my critical research for A level
> Media Studies about how important image is to artists with a cult
> following.
First to discuss someone or something, that you hold dear, deeply, or with great affection, admiration, and love, is to reduce that person or thing immediately, for we are limited by are ability to only convey that which we feel through the use of language. While written words on a page can be very moving, they cannot convey nor reveal the utmost depths of our hearts. I can never tell my mother, sister, father, Morrissey, how much I love them, because the way I feel is beyond words, beyond the capacity of language. You dig?
> 1) What do you like/dislike about the way Morrissey or the smiths portray
> himself/themselves?
First, this should have been broken up into 2 distinct questions as what you are asking before one / is the opposite of what you are asking after the prose which follow said /. Hence, I will do it for you:
1.1) What do you like about the way Morrissey or The Smiths portray himself/themselves?
Ah, that is better. So much cleaner and easier to answer now. What do I like? This is difficult to answer because I'm fairly certain I could write a novella on the subject. You know what? It is easier to just take one thing, rather then catalog the ways I love them.
Morrissey - is really funny. In interviews, print, radio, whether they are talking to him live or he is just faxing back, he is hysterical. Acerbic mind you, but funny as a stand up comic, a top notch one of course. Nothing is tacky
Only the best! Lush girls, older and dying, Sighing and crying, This is success!
Morrissey is the most intelligent, handsome, well read, poetic, eccentric, pop singer of all time. His voice is haunting, like a voice from the grave. His lyrics, the stuff of literary genius. His live performances were more of a right of passage/conversion than just going to any old show. He could have been a model. He is soooooooo sensitive. He feels what we feel. He expresses what we cannot. His knowledge of English culture from Oscar Wilde to present day, in books, film, television, and especially pop music, is that of someone with a Ph.D. in said subjects. He does not suffer fools gladly. He speaks his mind. He is himself. He has been touched by the hand of God, and is something of an angel or prophet, hence the cult-like worship, wherein we are all people of Smithdom, we are all devotees.
So I ask you? How can someone so wonderful sing words so sad?
The Smiths -
Andy - nice guy, was always good to Mozzer, very very loyal. The 80,000 Pounds he settled with Morrissey & Marr for was unfair to him, but you don't see him bitching about it.
Joyce - sued the pants of Mozzer, won, deserved the money, and is a-okay by me...also loyal to Mozzer in the early days, and like Rourke would have stayed on in Moz's band, if asked.
Johnny Marr - What DO I like about him? He paid the 750,000 Pounds Sterling the High Court said he owned Joyce. What DID I like about him? He was one the top 100 guitar players of all time, just ask Rolling Stone. Also, Johnny was no lackey, every clip I've ever seen of the Smiths, Marr has a different guitar which surely costs more than the carrots & fruits Mozzer requested for supper. J. Marr had his own style, constantly changing, re-inventing himself, as a Smith. By contrast, Morrrissey's transformations were really just the true evolution of his person and the touchy march of time, i.e. getting older.
1.1.) What do you dislike about the way Morrissey or The Smiths portray himself/themselves?
Morrissey - this position he has held, it has paid his way, but corroded his soul (re: Joyce $$$$$).
Andy - nothing negative.
Joyce - I'd have to read the bloody court transcript, nothing I know of.
Johnny Marr - well if this is not a bitch to answer! HE HE HE oficially ended the Smiths, broke them up, pulled the plug, severed the alliance, walked away, etc. But, he was under tremendous pressure as Morrissey is known for not being easy to get along with, or I should say being very controling, such that The Smiths could never have a proper manager, hence they were never properly managed. Management duties, composing, guitar playing, producing, etc., were just some of the many hats that Mr. Marr had to wear. So, can you really blame him for walking away? Not really, but here is the thing. He could have had the decency to allow them to tour for Strangeways Here We Come, so that it could have gone where other Smiths' albums had, namely to #1 on the UK charts, instead that abysmal place in ended up peaking at. In addition, Morrissey has said that he would be open to working with J. Marr again, and loved Marr's music. As a result, it is J. Marr who keeps the alliance from being re-united, even if only for touring purposes. Therefore, it is ultimately Johnny Marr's decision to never work with Steven Patrick Morrissey again. As a result, Johnny Marr is a wanker, at the very least.
> 2) How genuine do you think this image is - for example, was wearing the
> hearing aid and sporting the quiff etc aimed to catch the interest of
> youths so they would follow a new trend?
Don't be a duffer! The image is real. The baby is not!
> 3) Have you ever dressed the way Morrissey did? If so, what elements of
> his style did you replicate and why.
Um, I have a nice set of hair. Sometimes, I let my sideburns grow a bit, and keep the sides and back very short while growing out the front and the top. Is it the influence of Moz? I dunno!!!
> 4) Did the 'Meat is Murder' album and Morrissey's views on animal rights
> infuence you at all? If so, in what ways.
I feel guilty everytime I eat a cheeseburger.
> 5) What do you think it is about Morrissey's image that was so appealing
> to youths?
Youths appealed to Mozzer because he is a pedophile.
> 6) Are you Male/ Female
Have you ever heard that gender is a construct? Bollocks, either you have a cock or you don't!!
Male.
> Thanks alot, if you could e-mail me your replies or post them here i'd
> appreciate it alot. Liv x X x
You are welcome, Limey Twat!!!
