Morrissey Central "REPULSION !" (September 26, 2024)

September 26, 2024

"Oscar Wilde was physically a work of art. The new statue 'of' him in Chelsea (by Eduardo Paolozzi) is even more grotesque than the ridiculous statue in Merrion Square in Dublin by Danny Osborne. Both statues are too repulsive to be shown here - or anywhere. As Oscar Wilde said, 'All art is quite useless'."
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[Redacted]

If he wants to have a conversaton about bad art, nothing is more repulsive than Morrissey's List of the Lost. I'm sure Oscar would agree.

 

[Ryan]

He wants Oscar’s dong*.

*Ongoing joke from other thread yesterday.

 

[Thewlis]

Ridiculous indeed

 

[William Fisher]

Some time around 2004 Morrissey himself seemed on course to getting his own statue. I guess that’s unlikely now.

 

[sparacus]

I saw this on the news and the statue is indeed repulsive. Chops Wilde’s face into segments. Horrible. Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland has also criticised it.

 

[sparacus]

If he wants to have a conversaton about bad art, nothing is more repulsive than Morrissey's List of the Lost. I'm sure Oscar would agree.

A completely misunderstood novel. It needs to be judged on how it makes you feel rather than by picking apart the choice of words. Rather like Bob Dylan’s classic novel ‘Tarantula’.

 

[Redacted]

A completely misunderstood novel. It needs to be judged on how it makes you feel rather than by picking apart the choice of words. Rather like Bob Dylan’s classic novel ‘Tarantula’.

So words in a novel don't matter? Got it. Tell that to Nabokov or Dostoyevsky, or the topic of this thread, Wilde.

 

[The Alchemist]

I don't get it.

It is well documented that many contemporaries commented on Wilde's fat and ugly appearance, which only got worse with age and debauchery (and he was only 46 when he died!)

That strongly suggests that he was not a work of art, actually; the reality is that Wilde repulsed himself and many others. The reason his mouth is closed in every photo or image you see of him? He had absolutely awful teeth...

I'm not judging him, I'm just pointing out that it's apparent Morrissey is very much buying into the rose-tinted myth of Oscar, not the reality.

Furthermore, I've recently highlighted at length that Oscar himself would have many doubts and criticisms of Morrissey's own work, which is deeply ironic.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Repulsion. Excellent film by Polanski.

 

[Phranc & Open]

What about BOT, Moz?
1.000 sideshows and once again nothing concrete from your mouth.

 

[Was I ever any good]

Morrissey’s career and reputation lays in tatters, and all he is arsed about is a couple of statues of Oscar Wilde.
You really couldn’t make this shit up.

 

[Phranc & Open]

That's what everybody here was waiting for. Oscar. For once in your latter-day career, tell it like it is! No deal, no release?

 

[Redacted]

I think Morrissey's career is over. I am not a huge Cure fan, I just listened to their new song, it's very atmospheric and lush, the lyrics are what you'd expect from Robert Smith, it's very good. Morrissey has not put out one song that is that carefully crafted in a very long time.
I read that Oscar Wilde didn't like the usual statues, and while I do think this one is strange looking, it immediately made me think about some things about his life, not sure if I got the meaning or not but I did have thoughts about it. I have literally zero thoughts about a lot of Morrissey's work, except that it's terrible and as someone in real life pointed out to me the other day, quite violent. I won't get into that discussion.

 

[The Wild Turkey]

Haha.
The statue ain't Wilde T enough.
Heard the same thing Moz.
Know a couple pigeons who won't
even bother to sh*t on it.

 

[sparacus]

Morrissey’s career and reputation lays in tatters, and all he is arsed about is a couple of statues of Oscar Wilde.
You really couldn’t make this shit up.

Morrissey's career is not 'in tatters'. He is between labels, as he was 1997-2004 and 2009-2013.

 

[sparacus]

I don't get it.

It is well documented that many contemporaries commented on Wilde's fat and ugly appearance, which only got worse with age and debauchery (and he was only 46 when he died!)

That strongly suggests that he was not a work of art, actually; the reality is that Wilde repulsed himself and many others. The reason his mouth is closed in every photo or image you see of him? He had absolutely awful teeth...

I'm not judging him, I'm just pointing out that it's apparent Morrissey is very much buying into the rose-tinted myth of Oscar, not the reality.

Furthermore, I've recently highlighted at length that Oscar himself would have many doubts and criticisms of Morrissey's own work, which is deeply ironic.

The statue is horrible. I've just attempted to upload a picture of it here but could not do so. It depicts Wilde's head and upper body lying on its side with huge grooves in it. Clearly its conceptual and attempting to show Wilde as a victim but it just conveys a sense of ugliness.

 

[Lamplighter]

I always quite liked the Merrion Square statue. It is kind of ridiculous, but it captures the vanity of the younger man, and a splash of colour too.

 

[Odbmke]

Sometimes I like to think about how Perth, Nottingham, The Greek, etc aren't worth a post, but he had to clear up that he wasn't vaping. And how he posted he was literally f***ing around Paris "doing nothing" two weeks before the YATQ shows that were tanking, then suddenly he is just so exhausted from "doing nothing" in Paris that he cancels and makes Donnie tell people he's exhausted? And now posts about a statue? Dude, f*** off with this shit.

 

[BookishBoy]

I think Morrissey's career is over. I am not a huge Cure fan, I just listened to their new song, it's very atmospheric and lush, the lyrics are what you'd expect from Robert Smith, it's very good. Morrissey has not put out one song that is that carefully crafted in a very long time.
I read that Oscar Wilde didn't like the usual statues, and while I do think this one is strange looking, it immediately made me think about some things about his life, not sure if I got the meaning or not but I did have thoughts about it. I have literally zero thoughts about a lot of Morrissey's work, except that it's terrible and as someone in real life pointed out to me the other day, quite violent. I won't get into that discussion.

One would hope, after 16 years, that any new song by anyone might be "carefully crafted".