Morrissey and pastiche

[Jones]

Listening to YOR it occurs to me that he is one of the few artists working today that is able to flirt with pastiche while being recognisably himself and no one else.

Pastiche is all the rage these days, but the trend seems to be to go the whole hog and be pastiche and nothing but. I'm thinking in terms of Duffy, Richard Hawley, Amy Winehouse, The Last Shadow Pupplets. They ape styles but don't really bring anything new to them.

Personally I prefer Morrissey's way of doing it, but would he get a lot more critical approval if he went the whole hog and just pretended to be Sinatra for a whole album?

 

[Kewpie]

Bump

Pity this thread has been overlooked.

Morrissey should explore the area because of his love of old fashioned pop music.

I secretly hope for back to the roots element in his 10th studio album which would lead to the next level both in aesthetically and career.

 

[lainey]

I do feel he articulate each word the way Sinatra did. which is wonderful