PS - He is clearly saying "My life is a book". Linder and I both heard this independently.
Linder who? Lusardi?
PS - He is clearly saying "My life is a book". Linder and I both heard this independently.
Yes, Boz has claimed it as his own.
its opera - cloth ears
Yes, Boz has claimed it as his own.
Interesting. It was the one of the current crop I thought could possibly be an Alain song, esp. with that propulsive chorus. I guess Boz has to be excited about the album if so many songs are his, from both a practical and artistic angle.
Alain isn't writing for Morrissey anymore.
I know you have said this is "word on the street" since a supposed barring of Alain from the studio. But, lacking confirmation or denial from Alain, Boz, or somebody from the "inner circle," who is to say it is true? If it has been confirmed, then by who? All I have seen is speculation and innuendo - no viable sources.
If it is true, so be it; Morrissey's loss. But passing it off as FACT without proof does not make it so.
It is a fact they aren't working together. Alain has said so. It's as simple as asking him on Facebook if you require it from the horse's mouth. The only thing that isn't necessarily confirmed is why they aren't working together...
I wasn't aware he had been asked on Facebook. I wouldn't have considered it my business to ask him that directly.
Well, barring other writers being involved, the remaining hope is that the Boz/Jesse split is at least 75/25.
No...it isn't. Listen to it. There isn't anything in what he's singing that remotely sounds like any way to pronounce an "R"...and last time I checked, you can't spell or say or sing "opera" if you don't include an "R" in it.
He is saying "a book"...very clearly. You know, hence the reason he refers to book pages in the verse before the chorus. I wish he WAS singing "opera" because it is a MUCH better lyric...but he isn't. I don't know how you're listening to the song, but if you hear it through headphones, you'll quite clearly notice what he's saying.
Sounds like opera to me. At first I thought it was open, but I think he sings op-ra (2 syllables). I tried headphones and I don't think it's a book. Could be, but there's more to life than books, anyway...
When did 'opera' become an adjective?
If Morrissey is comparing his life to an opera, then he would need to use the indefinite article.
'My life is opera' would make no more sense than 'My life is table'.
Really, the standard of English round these parts!
I hear "opera" pretty clearly, and his falsetto delivery on that line sounds like he's imitating opera, so I thought that was the most logical conclusion.
Dude, he's saying BOOK. As in the forthcoming autobiography.
What does "fat Aunt Mable" have to do with Art Hounds?
The whole song sounds like it's being made up as he goes along. The only thing that saves it is his delivery, which is concussively violent.
He should leave the stream of consciousness rock lyricism to Michael Stipe, who is much better at making nonsense sound profound than Morrissey is, and go back to good old fashioned tear out your jugular, hit the nail on the head poetics.
What does "fat Aunt Mable" have to do with Art Hounds?
The whole song sounds like it's being made up as he goes along. The only thing that saves it is his delivery, which is concussively violent.
He should leave the stream of consciousness rock lyricism to Michael Stipe, who is much better at making nonsense sound profound than Morrissey is, and go back to good old fashioned tear out your jugular, hit the nail on the head poetics.