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is one of Morrissey's worst songs, ever?
It's a shame that the Mikey's music was stricken by such banal, repetetive lyrics, and a horrible vocal melody. It's certainly one of those songs that you lower the volume on when the window is down.
I'm sorry, but this album is one of Morrissey's worst, imo. He seems to be pilfering less from pop culture, and is singing more about topics that seem far too specific to his own experiences. In the past, Morrissey's ability to generalize seemed much stronger, and I would even argue that it was his most important trait. I think the best way to sum up Morrissey as an artist since Southpaw, is as one who has completley forgotten about his audience. He has become self-indulgent. He's more successful simply because his sound is more mainstream. If that's what he wants, then I guess that's all that we're going to get.
In the past Morrissey has created music, that even in its most repetetive moments, still seemed ethereal, even otherwordly. I have not seen much evidence of this quality since Vauxhall & I. Now he's merely a radio artist who sings over chord proressions, and not tunes. I even believe that it is Morrissey who is holding back the band, and not the band members simply being unable to come up with interesting music.
This was alluded to in the recent G Magazine article that was posted. Southpaw was written on acousitc guitar, and Morrissey kept wanting them to amp it up. Sometimes songs coneived on acoustic do not sound well amped up, and to me that is the trap that they are stuck in. Morrissey simply is not that great as a rock artist. He's best when engaging in udnerstament, and both lyrically and musically, there has been little understatement in recent times.
I think a lot of people on this forum want Morrissey's current music to be so good that they delude themselves into believing that it is. They'll even try to go as far as to convincee veryone else who slags the album that they are simply not listening hard enough, as if they are stupid, or insane.
Some even write grossly overenthusiastic reviews of songs that I cannot fathom as actually being sincere. It begins to sound like propaganda, and well, psychosis.
Morrissey has fallen, not because he's no longer with Marr, but because of the trap that almost every artist falls into after great success: Detachment
It's a shame that the Mikey's music was stricken by such banal, repetetive lyrics, and a horrible vocal melody. It's certainly one of those songs that you lower the volume on when the window is down.
I'm sorry, but this album is one of Morrissey's worst, imo. He seems to be pilfering less from pop culture, and is singing more about topics that seem far too specific to his own experiences. In the past, Morrissey's ability to generalize seemed much stronger, and I would even argue that it was his most important trait. I think the best way to sum up Morrissey as an artist since Southpaw, is as one who has completley forgotten about his audience. He has become self-indulgent. He's more successful simply because his sound is more mainstream. If that's what he wants, then I guess that's all that we're going to get.
In the past Morrissey has created music, that even in its most repetetive moments, still seemed ethereal, even otherwordly. I have not seen much evidence of this quality since Vauxhall & I. Now he's merely a radio artist who sings over chord proressions, and not tunes. I even believe that it is Morrissey who is holding back the band, and not the band members simply being unable to come up with interesting music.
This was alluded to in the recent G Magazine article that was posted. Southpaw was written on acousitc guitar, and Morrissey kept wanting them to amp it up. Sometimes songs coneived on acoustic do not sound well amped up, and to me that is the trap that they are stuck in. Morrissey simply is not that great as a rock artist. He's best when engaging in udnerstament, and both lyrically and musically, there has been little understatement in recent times.
I think a lot of people on this forum want Morrissey's current music to be so good that they delude themselves into believing that it is. They'll even try to go as far as to convincee veryone else who slags the album that they are simply not listening hard enough, as if they are stupid, or insane.
Some even write grossly overenthusiastic reviews of songs that I cannot fathom as actually being sincere. It begins to sound like propaganda, and well, psychosis.
Morrissey has fallen, not because he's no longer with Marr, but because of the trap that almost every artist falls into after great success: Detachment
