Ok but Bob Dylan just went #1 and likely to stay another week then yours truly, and he’s never been commercial, and if y’all don’t care then why in the previous 21 pages of you and that member with the “Interview With A Vampire” avi fighting with everyone that has a different prospective of moz’s declining longevity.
Clearly, you do give a f***...
The sales of the brilliant I am not a Dog were indeed genuinely bad. I’m fairly convinced the ‘pandemic’ had less impact than some would suggest. Indeed, for an artist like Morrissey it should’ve been an opportunity. But the taste makers (who helped make a lesser album, Quarry, a success) snuffed poor Dog out.
Morrissey’s immediate prospects are bleak. Unlike Nerak, I’m not convinced that he’s going to get a record contract of the type he feels he deserves. And I’m not sure he’s willing to drop down a division and accept the terms of the lesser labels.
More likely, he will wait until the world wants him again. And it will happen: the tide will go out. It will take the effluent mess of contemporary vitriol and talentless celebrities with it. When it does, a handful of ‘greats’ will be revealed, more clearly defined and obvious than ever. And Morrissey will be amongst that few. He will have his last hurrah.
Just as we look back and question those who questioned talents like Johnny Ray, the future won’t be kind to those who tried to deny them Morrissey.
As Camus noticed, ‘absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction: therefore it destroys freedom.’ When the world comes to prize freedom again (and it will), it will love Morrissey. That’s ‘Morrissey’. Remember his name.
