Re: Chronicle about "Kiss me a lot" video in Swedens biggest newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN)
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Fredrik Strage: Suddenly transformed Morrissey to a sick old man imbecile
Chronicle. Morrissey has upset many times. But never before has he provoked his fans in his latest video.
Morrissey has made a video for her latest single "Kiss me a lot" and not since he was a bullied oddball home in Manchester in the seventies have so few wanted to kiss him. The comment field on Youtube closed after all upset Post: "I have never regretted so much that I seen anything", "I can not continue supporting his career after this", "For the first time in 32 years, I am ashamed to be Morrisseyfan".
Not even when Morrissey said Utøyamassakern was nothing compared to what happens at McDonalds every day, or called the Chinese a "subspecies" because of their cruelty to animals, he aroused as much offense. He has always been a fanatical animal lover and a vegetarian. However, he has never been there, he seems to be in the new video: sexist.
The camera pans clumsily over Morrissey and backing band playing "Kiss me a lot" and the appearance cross cut - without rhythm - with young women wearing revealing lingerie and has written the song title with marker pen on their bodies. It looks as if the "Café Norrköping" [dated Swedish tv-show] picture producer has zapped here from 1987, had a stroke and then tried to do a commercial for Victoria's Secret.
Morrissey videography includes many disasters (he never liked the format, in a television interview in 1984, he predicted the music video's death) but "Kiss me a lot" is so spectacularly bad that many refuse to believe that he had anything to do with it. That director Sam Esty Rayner is Morrissey's nephew and starred in his first solo video "Suedehead" - he is the little boy who gives the star a copy of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book "The Little Prince" - has not dampened the rampage. "You should be ashamed for having made this video," writes a fan of director on Facebook. "Morrissey has released their best album in years and it soiled the bottom of this stuff debris. /.../ Then when like Morrissey to objectify women? This is so awful that I hope you get gonorrhea and then gets run over by a bus. "
According to Sam Esty Rayner came concept for the video entirely from his uncle. The question is whether it is intentional or just lousy lousy. The last option seems the most likely. Maybe you want Morrissey, who for more than 30 years exploring gayestetik, make a coarse-grained pastiche of the male heterosexual desire that permeates our culture. Perhaps he wants to suggest that he is not gay but, as he recently put it, "humasexual". Maybe he just wants to get attention by annoying fans who associate him with feminism (and confuse them with their scrawled cells resemble namely the women in the video of the feminist protest group Femen).
In order to ascertain what Morrissey really mean, I ask my friend Morrissey Martin, who has "MORRISSEY" tattooed on his arm and during a concert threw up a copy of "The Little Prince" to his idol. He points out something I missed in the video: Morrissey smiles in the first verse and chorus. "There is something here that he thinks is great fun," says Morrissey-Martin. "Most likely, an obscure reference to something kitschy music program from 1973 as long as he can remember. Once you have found into his maze of influences have been very nice to find. But when, as here, neither the key or map he appears just like Benny Hill. Which in and of itself is pretty impressive of a gay millionaire in Dries Van Noten-jacket. "
Impressive is also Morrissey for the first time manages to alienate his entire audience. For an artist who often cook presents with their alienation gives it an authentic aura - the price of that he seems like a sick old man imbecile.
Fredrik Strage
