Morrissey interview in TT Kultur / Hallandsposten.se (Swedish)
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Morrissey: "Sverige har alltid välkomnat mig" - TT Kultur - Hallandsposten.se
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Morrissey: "Sweden has always welcomed me"
STOCKHOLM / TT Sweden Aktuelle Morrissey sings because he must. In an extensive interview, pop icon of his views on the music industry, the Swedish fans and the cancer he treated for.We are all dying, he said to TT.
Steven Patrick Morrissey has had an eventful year. The former The Smiths frontman has issued a much awaited autobiography and an almost equally long awaited new studio album.
So far so good. Soon, however, the problem - shortly after the album "World peace is none of your business" was released last summer broke Morrissey collaboration with his label.
- The album had been destroyed if I had let its fate be left in the hands of Harvest Records. Why? To record label boss was incompetent, says Morrissey in an email interview with TT.
"The control that the Gestapo"
As a result of the breakup disc is not longer in service Spotify. Something that many fans find boring - Morrissey himself does not give a lot of digital music services.
- For many years, people used their brains and hearts when they bought a disc. Today, check the record companies what we can and can not get access to. U2 incident is a fascinating example of how limited personal choice has become. We believe that the Internet has given us enormous freedoms, but the record companies control the freedoms that the Gestapo.
He also saw the prevailing idea that the songs are more important than albums.
- It is a figment of the record company did not want to spend money on album covers, photography and marketing, and who do not think enough of the performers to let them do a whole album. It is a kind of execution, said Morrissey.
Afflicted of cancer
Over the past year there have also been many disturbing reports of Morrissey's health. He has been forced to cancel several concerts because of illness and earlier in the fall, he told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that he had been treated for cancer.
Now Morrissey says that his health is "okay".
- I am under surveillance. But we are all dying. Even when you are sleeping in your bed, you are dying.
TT: What kind of cancer have you treated?
- The modern life cancer ... pollution, food additives, a sky full of 747. How do we stay healthy? It's impossible. I am amused by people who jog along with hard traffic generating pathways. It is a kind of voluntary death, yet they think it's a way to stay healthy.
Welcomed in Sweden
During the coming week makes Morrissey three concerts in Sweden: Lund on November 8, in Gothenburg on November 11 and in Stockholm on 13 November. The Swedish fans have always had a special relationship with Morrissey and vice versa.
- I have always felt that I have been welcomed with some understanding. In other countries, I sometimes put to the test before they decide I'm worth it. I've never been a conventional pop artist, I tend to stand out more than some people can handle. But this has never been to Sweden, he says.
"No gimmicks"
Have you seen Morrissey before you know what you can expect when he must take the Swedish scenes. His concerts are the antithesis of the well organized giant shows that modern pop artists like Miley Cyrus and Lady Gaga turn up.
- I've never had any theme. No props, no dancers, spiders made of glass or other gimmicks. I stand there and sing, and I sing because I must do it. I have never felt the need to hide behind a Ziggy Stardust. Not being artificial is perhaps the strangest one would be today?
Linus Brännström / TT
Sidebar:
Morrissey on...
... Sweden:
"There's something pleasant with Sweden that the whole world envies. Sweden is fascinating freely and it can not be ignored. The world is falling apart, yet retains Sweden its integrity and the country performing well on their own. Of course I know that the suicide rate is high in Sweden, but it is high everywhere. It's the human condition. "
... the music industry:
"It's just American music industry types motivated by such things as vanity and power. If the people were controlling the charts would look quite different across the world. But instead created careers and false popularity of marketing and money. The true artists pushed aside because we are not mentally constipated. "
... carnivorous:
"I am shocked by people who feed their babies with dead animals. It depends on the idiotic myth of protein, right? But the strongest animals in the world eats only plants. People do not give their newborn babies cow's milk because they know it's dangerous. Why do they then it's okay that their children will eventually eat cows? Cancerous growth hormones pumped into the animals in factory farming and then goes into the human bloodstream. If you give your baby meat, you might as well give it a cigar and a bottle of whiskey. "
Facts / Morrissey
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born May 22, 1959 in Davyhulme outside Manchester, England.
He became famous as the lead singer of the influential band The Smiths in the early 1980s. The group's debut single "Hand in Glove" was released in 1983 and the following year came the self-titled debut album.
The Smiths split in 1987 after four albums. Morrissey has since devoted himself to his solo career, this summer released his tenth solo album, "World peace is none of your business".
Morrissey is a well-known animal rights activist and has repeatedly made high-profile statements about carnivorous, hunting and animal husbandry.
On 8 November, Morrissey to the Savings Bank Arena in Lund, Sweden, November 11, he plays then Lisebergshallen in Gothenburg and 13 November, he comes to the Royal Court in Stockholm.
