Let's Talk Morrissey...
The tragically titled new Morrissey album, Ringleader of the Tormentors is released in about six weeks and the new single You have Killed Me has been playing on the radio and streaming on myspace. I've listened to it a couple of times and find it incredibly boring. I mean, this is the kind of music that he and Boz could write in thier sleep... and probably did! Sure its just one song. Sure its supposed to be the one that hooks people in and should have mass appeal. Though Morrissey's singles in the past have been great pop songs that had appeal whereas this one is just bland. The most embarrassing stuff regarding this album can be found in the press info on the myspace page. Here are a few morsels from the press release:
"Ringleader of the Tormentors is a savagely alive record." Thats just a funny statement.
"Rinngleader of the Tormentors is the most musically disturbing record Morrissey has made since The Smiths second album, Meat is Murder." That single is anything but disturbing.
"It seems somehow suffused with a new confidence and, dare one venture, happiness?" Thats fine. I like happy, spry Morrissey. Oh wait, but then there's this line a paragraph down. "This feeling of unease and of Morrissey returning to the bleak environs of his greatest early work occurs again and again throughout the album". Ok, so which is it?
‘To Me You Are a Work of Art’ may contain the classic Morrissey couplet, “I see the world, it makes me puke,” Wow.
Elsewhere, on first single, ‘You Have Killed Me’ - which despite the spin of the title is one of the most positive and uplifting things Morrissey has done - we learn, “I entered nothing, and nothing entered me, ‘til you came, with the key.” Gadzooks! It surely trumps the usual mechanical lyrical demurring about buttons being pushed, or fires being lit. Cliche lyrics get a royal treatment.
Of course this is rock journalism and none of it truely matters. I just think writing like this is genuinely funny and does, though i dont want it to, detract from my interest in the new Morrissey record. I hear some of the songs are 7+ minutes long which is cool. Maybe a few "Southpaw" type moments. I'll buy it of course... who am i kidding. Its just with this kind of stuff and that boring single coming on the heels of the mediocre "You are the Quarry", I'm a struggling Morrissey fan.
"Ringleader of the Tormentors is a savagely alive record." Thats just a funny statement.
"Rinngleader of the Tormentors is the most musically disturbing record Morrissey has made since The Smiths second album, Meat is Murder." That single is anything but disturbing.
"It seems somehow suffused with a new confidence and, dare one venture, happiness?" Thats fine. I like happy, spry Morrissey. Oh wait, but then there's this line a paragraph down. "This feeling of unease and of Morrissey returning to the bleak environs of his greatest early work occurs again and again throughout the album". Ok, so which is it?
‘To Me You Are a Work of Art’ may contain the classic Morrissey couplet, “I see the world, it makes me puke,” Wow.
Elsewhere, on first single, ‘You Have Killed Me’ - which despite the spin of the title is one of the most positive and uplifting things Morrissey has done - we learn, “I entered nothing, and nothing entered me, ‘til you came, with the key.” Gadzooks! It surely trumps the usual mechanical lyrical demurring about buttons being pushed, or fires being lit. Cliche lyrics get a royal treatment.
Of course this is rock journalism and none of it truely matters. I just think writing like this is genuinely funny and does, though i dont want it to, detract from my interest in the new Morrissey record. I hear some of the songs are 7+ minutes long which is cool. Maybe a few "Southpaw" type moments. I'll buy it of course... who am i kidding. Its just with this kind of stuff and that boring single coming on the heels of the mediocre "You are the Quarry", I'm a struggling Morrissey fan.