MORRIZSEY
Wrong species
mtvhive.com interview by Marissa G. Muller
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Do you have any titles down?
I have a song called “Attack Dog” and another called “Cathedral.”
What’s the story behind “Attack Dog”?
“Attack Dog” is a song about all of these pompous jerks who are the sort of people who have to write in those little comment boxes after articles. What’s up with that? There’s a generation of people — often men of a certain age — who I’m so disappointed in. When did my generation of guys, who came out of the first wave of indie rock, turn into such curmudgeonly old bastards? It’s all reactionary. They don’t like gay people. There are these so-called enlightened liberal newspapers but yet their readers are these people who are these reactionary dicks. These are people who, if you pressed them, would say that they have liberal opinions. I don’t see that at all. Those people piss me off.
Your generation in particular grew up with Margaret Thatcher as a common enemy. How did you feel after all of these years about her dying? Some people even celebrated her death.
I’m not that ghoulish or negative but anyone who sees the word “Thatcherism” and doesn’t agree that is stands for something bad is in the minority. I understand rhetoric and the kind of tributes that happen when anyone in the public eye passes away but I felt that the current British government’s statement that Margaret Thatcher made Britain great was an insult to generations of families all over the UK who have never really recovered from her legacy. These are people that the British government are supposed to be representing. Everybody knows what her legacy is: She dismantled the working classes and British industry. To say that she made Britain great is really distasteful.
Excerpt -
Do you have any titles down?
I have a song called “Attack Dog” and another called “Cathedral.”
What’s the story behind “Attack Dog”?
“Attack Dog” is a song about all of these pompous jerks who are the sort of people who have to write in those little comment boxes after articles. What’s up with that? There’s a generation of people — often men of a certain age — who I’m so disappointed in. When did my generation of guys, who came out of the first wave of indie rock, turn into such curmudgeonly old bastards? It’s all reactionary. They don’t like gay people. There are these so-called enlightened liberal newspapers but yet their readers are these people who are these reactionary dicks. These are people who, if you pressed them, would say that they have liberal opinions. I don’t see that at all. Those people piss me off.
Your generation in particular grew up with Margaret Thatcher as a common enemy. How did you feel after all of these years about her dying? Some people even celebrated her death.
I’m not that ghoulish or negative but anyone who sees the word “Thatcherism” and doesn’t agree that is stands for something bad is in the minority. I understand rhetoric and the kind of tributes that happen when anyone in the public eye passes away but I felt that the current British government’s statement that Margaret Thatcher made Britain great was an insult to generations of families all over the UK who have never really recovered from her legacy. These are people that the British government are supposed to be representing. Everybody knows what her legacy is: She dismantled the working classes and British industry. To say that she made Britain great is really distasteful.
