hmmmnnn...no surprise that Morrissey would express <3 for this but only because it's a 'good review' that skirts the issues of why this is both his best ever album and also his artistic epitaph given that its release alongside the eruption of the SARSCoV2 coronavirus and the pandemic illness and death of Covid19 has exposed Morrissey as an extraordinary hypocrite; a grotesque clown who joked about the illness to his captive fans lost in their Herd Culture trance as he sang and danced like a buffoon onstage at Wembley alongside a 'lawnmower part' whose wife was stricken by the virus.
I did a quick search for 'animal' and 'Vegan' in the article but, of course, given National Review is the tribune of the imagined red-blooded Amercian Conservative there would be no discussion either of animals rights, wet markets, hog farms in Utah or Morrissey's perverse hypocrisies such as espousing 'animal rights' on stage then gorging on Kerrygold cheese laden riders night after night.
Why does he link to right-wing sites like National Review / alt-right sort types like that Prison Planet guy when they lambast 'soy boys', decry 'effeminacy' and 'humasexuality' and totally ignore /discount the possibility that the next pandemic may emerge from some Chicago slaughterhouse?
At some stage I will write the definitive review / autopsy if and when my schedule allows but for now I think I'll just sink back into the extraordinary musical, lyrical and philosophical landscape the record conjures up even as it puts a noose around Morrissey's neck.
Keep Safe. Stay At Home. Protect The NHS: Don't go to any Morrissey shows because whilst he's protected by social distancing onstage, he's asking you to risk sickness and death so he can carry on with his sinful pointless purgatory in Luxuria. Just because someone can sing and write B-list quality lyrics whilst composing beautiful vocal melodies doesn't make them morally or socially tolerable. Let's ignore his 'dancing'. As Morrissey is now finding out, people have no more patience with his wilful trolling of complex debates on animal liberation and immigration as they realise his only interest in such inflammatory topics is to get his music onto corporate radio stations. Controversy is old hat. We live in a post-Covid world, 'edgy' fake-Outsider rebel failed pop stars? I think we're all done with that crap...
kind regards
Andy aka Alfie aka BB
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