oh my god, honey bunny, you are so brilliant!!!!!!I don't know why you felt like this needed its own thread, but if you're looking for ways Morrissey can get a reaction, he could use the word 'n*****' in one of his songs. He can argue that it's his artistic right to call upon any word in the English language that he chooses. If it's really brewing up a storm at that point he can release an interview with SER where he states "so black rappers are permitted to use the word in their songs, but I'm denied that same right because of the colour of my skin? Is that not the very definition of racism?". He'll lose fans but he'll gain lots of headlines and a section of his fanbase will agree with him, so his career will go on. On here a few people will defend him, among them KS and Malarkey. Uncleskinny will say "See? What have I been telling you all along?" and explain that anyone who continues to enjoy Morrissey's music is an endorser of racism and bigotry. He'll get thumbs down from the usual people but an equal amount of thumbs up including from the likes of GS who will finally have decided to concede that Morrissey is indeed a racist. A couple of usernames that we barely recognise will write "after 35+ years this is the final straw for me. Goodbye Morrissey" posts. The thread will receive approximately 1000 replies. I'll give the '' reaction to a lot of posts. BrummieBoy will have a whale of a time. Essentially we'll all do what we're most known for. You'll write a 600 word psychobabble post where you try to see both sides. People we haven't seen in years will reemerge to say their piece.
But what's the best way for Morrissey to go about this? Does he release the tracklist of a forthcoming album with the word 'n*****' in one of the titles, kickstarting a debate without anyone yet knowing what the song is about? Does he perform a new song live with 'n*****' in the lyrics, sparking a debate where people question whether they heard the lyric correctly? Perhaps he could just use the word during his between song banter: "as you...may have heard...I have yet to find a music label...with the courage...to release...my newest LP...called 'Bonfire of Teenagers'...undoubtedly the greatest...and most important work...of my entire life. John Lenin once sang...'Woman...is the n*****...of the world'...it seems that, because I have a brain...and I dare to speak my mind, I...I have now become...the n*****...of the music industry". What would be the best song to play right after that--- maybe 'Only a Pawn in Their Game'?
There are a few ways he could do this, to create controversy while still having somewhat plausible deniability. 'Somewhat' in that he's leaving himself a small amount of wiggle room so that it doesn't completely ruin him. He could also liken music industry executives to slave owners. There are a few pretty decent possibilities out there if he uses his imagination
I don't know why you felt like this needed its own thread, but if you're looking for ways Morrissey can get a reaction, he could use the word 'n*****' in one of his songs. He can argue that it's his artistic right to call upon any word in the English language that he chooses. If it's really brewing up a storm at that point he can release an interview with SER where he states "so black rappers are permitted to use the word in their songs, but I'm denied that same right because of the colour of my skin? Is that not the very definition of racism?". He'll lose fans but he'll gain lots of headlines and a section of his fanbase will agree with him, so his career will go on. On here a few people will defend him, among them KS and Malarkey. Uncleskinny will say "See? What have I been telling you all along?" and explain that anyone who continues to enjoy Morrissey's music is an endorser of racism and bigotry. He'll get thumbs down from the usual people but an equal amount of thumbs up including from the likes of GS who will finally have decided to concede that Morrissey is indeed a racist. A couple of usernames that we barely recognise will write "after 35+ years this is the final straw for me. Goodbye Morrissey" posts. The thread will receive approximately 1000 replies. I'll give the '' reaction to a lot of posts. BrummieBoy will have a whale of a time. Essentially we'll all do what we're most known for. You'll write a 600 word psychobabble post where you try to see both sides. People we haven't seen in years will reemerge to say their piece.
But what's the best way for Morrissey to go about this? Does he release the tracklist of a forthcoming album with the word 'n*****' in one of the titles, kickstarting a debate without anyone yet knowing what the song is about? Does he perform a new song live with 'n*****' in the lyrics, sparking a debate where people question whether they heard the lyric correctly?
Hey, that’s pretty good.Perhaps he could just use the word during his between song banter: "as you...may have heard...I have yet to find a music label...with the courage...to release...my newest LP...called 'Bonfire of Teenagers'...undoubtedly the greatest...and most important work...of my entire life. John Lenin once sang...'Woman...is the n*****...of the world'...it seems that, because I have a brain...and I dare to speak my mind, I...I have now become...the n*****...of the music industry". What would be the best song to play right after that--- maybe 'Only a Pawn in Their Game'?
There are a few ways he could do this, to create controversy while still having somewhat plausible deniability. 'Somewhat' in that he's leaving himself a small amount of wiggle room so that it doesn't completely ruin him. He could also liken music industry executives to slave owners. There are a few pretty decent possibilities out there if he uses his imagination
What?Fake C saying Morrissey trolls for attention, while ignoring the fact that if Morrissey really wanted attention then it could be done,
i just want to know what @Born to Harangue 's IQ is!!!! that's the REAL question!!! i bet it's, like, 170.
it was always going to be higher than FC's thoughwhatever it is, it’s definitely higher than FC’s. Because at least @Born to Harangue understood my post.
I am not sure that “understanding” your post is a sign of intelligence.whatever it is, it’s definitely higher than FC’s. Because at least @Born to Harangue understood my post.
it was always going to be higher than FC's though
it was a swell one, k-ket!!Of course. Though there are many, just giving a recent example.
i just want to know what @Born to Harangue 's IQ is!!!! that's the REAL question!!! i bet it's, like, 170.
i dont know what my iq is, honey bunny!! but i did take a free online one of questionable validity once (years ago when i was MUCH less smart) and scored 139, which didnt seem quite high enough, since goethe, who ive always compared myself to, had an iq of like 250!! but then my intelligence is being one of those whom the gods love (and therefore requires no work, so sorry, i cant give you any tips) and so it's variable and circumstantial and is probably not accurately reflected on an iq test!!I've never taken a proper IQ test, only the free online ones and they don't count. Actually, a few years ago I tried to take a MENSA one online and I only got about half way through it before the time ran out, so make of that what you will!!! Of the four or five other free tests I took (which don't count), my average was 128. I'm inclined to think my IQ is lower than that, maybe about 120 if that's not overly presumptuous although it could be as low as 115!! I wouldn't want to be in the 140s or higher because it seems like too much of a burden (for me), being slightly above average would be just fine!
I'm aware of some of my limitations, one of which is literary theory which takes me many read throughs to "get", back when I even attempted to read it. And frankly I'm a lazy thinker, when attempting to work through a problem in my head something I realised I would often do is work through the problem up to the point where I was beginning to understand it, then stop. Instead of delving deeper so I truly understood it, I was satisfied with a surface level understanding of whatever I was thinking about. Sean Lock has a stand-up comedy routine about that (which I can't find); agonising over a philosophical conundrum in his mind but getting bored and stopping to make a sandwich because there's no one to tell him otherwise. It's similar to that. With most things I'm okay with "good enough", so for reasons such as those I can't accept that my IQ could be much higher than 120, and that's clever but not spectacular. "And it suits me very well" as Morrissey sings in one of his new songs.
But on the subject of high IQs honey bunny what's yours, pray tell?? Genius level at least, obviously, if not super genius !!! You weren't a genetic superbaby who was created in a lab and got adopted by a Canadian family, were you!? I don't think you're The Woman With Two Brains because you would have mentioned that by now. I'm not sure what else could account for your superhuman intelligence though, I should have thought it through a bit more but I decided to park the thought and make a sandwich instead-- I reached the limit of my understanding. You're the thinker of the two of us so you tell me: how did you become such a genius, was there a lot of hard work involved to get to this point or is it something that was bestowed upon you by a higher power ?!
k, shut up nowI remember talking to an art history professor once. I mentioned Patti Smith and she rolled her eyes and I thought she probably just doesn’t get it, but seeing some things like Patti Smith on that Rolling Thunder Revue documentary on Netflix I think maybe she did get it. Patti Smith did some really interesting work but she was always jostling to get close to people more famous or more talented or more iconic.
I respect her hustle but she has two classic records and a whole bunch of other stuff that make a career. Horses and Easter are great but I don’t think anyone ranks them with Velvet Underground, at least not anymore.
When I lost a lot of faith is when I read this interview after she was married and she was saying that her husband was kind of advising her musically in a way that sounded very controlling. I couldn’t understand why she would be attracted to that. Why wouldn’t she want to do it her way when she created such an impact early on. After “Wave” which was only okay, she never had the same impact. Maybe she couldn’t think of another group to culturally appropriate for shock value.