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davidt
on Tuesday November 12 2002, @10:15AM
Mozster writes:
An article appeared in the Scottish Sunday broadsheet 'Scotland On Sunday' by Louise Rimmer previewing the Barrowlands gig. In it she digs up the age old question (that she obviously thinks is groundbreaking news) Is Morrissey racist? Worth a read anyways at the link below, obviously not a real fan if she didn't attend! A light has gone out - by Louise Rimmer, Scotland on Sunday (Nov. 3, 2002)
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"A light has gone out" - article in Scotland On Sunday (Nov. 3)
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tripe (Score:1)
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Give me a break (Score:1)
I am so disgusted I dont even want to write about this topic anymore!!!
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Racism so old (Score:1, Interesting)
Viva,
Creg Hampshire
P.S. Racism sucks !!!
mmmmm ... (Score:2, Insightful)
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Pile of (Score:1)
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One is not two (Score:0)
-Pedro
Louise Rimmer (Score:0)
Well, if she really wants to avoid racism (Score:1)
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email her, be polite, explain the words (Score:0)
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Why Mozzer is NOT Racist... Song by Song analysis. (Score:1)
This song brought Moz a lot of troubles with PC types like this particular Scottish journalist...
Talk about musical group Cornershop...
Cornershop are Indian-British guys who made some cool music with fusion of both Britpop, some jazz and some Indian rhymes... They hated Moz song 'cause Moz tried to tell that Bengalis (or any other Asians) don't belong in England... "Life is hard enough when you belong here", "shelf your Western dreams", all of this sounds for British citizen of Indian or Pakistani descent both hostile/rude and sickeningly patronizing... I think they (Cornershop boys) even burned Viva Hate albums at cheap publicity stunt... This song brought our dear Mozza a lot of grief from PC British Press... This song reflects SOME of white working-class Brit or Irish views, that newly arrived immigrants are competing with native-born whites for working class low-paying jobs and meager social resources... Those retrograde and one could say reactionary backslash against immigration led neo-Nazi right-wing peoples like Le Pen in France and Haiger in Austria to get significant amount of working class votes... The root of the conflict is inadequacies of the modern capitalist system, where poor whites and immigrants must compete with each other for the meager low-paying dead end jobs and welfare benefits at the bottom of the social ladder... Immigrants, who are the most upward mobile and energetic representatives of their particular ethnicities, are usually winning this economic Rat Race by their smarts and their work ethics over poor whites, many of them (whites) are not being that bright, or educated, or new economy savvy... So yes, Moz maybe wrote this song for the purpose to stir debates about those complex and not at all black-and-white issues... It was both courageous and repulsive song at the same time...
Asian Rut...
Personally, I found this song purely homoerotic, not socially-oriented... Lush oriental melody is produced by Pakistani electric violin player, as was rightly mentioned above. Sexually charged lyrics are about Asian boy engaging with 3 English boys in something... but in what? Street fight? Probably not, the melody is relaxed, putting listener into erotic nirvana... Maybe playing Nintendo? :-) Or maybe perhaps into something X-rated? Isn't this song about interracial adult alliances... Isn't this song contains a gentle irony about unfair sexual stereotypes... (Lyrics here may point out to "tool" sizes, implied to acme representative of certain ethnicities. Moz jokes about arriving to place "more civilized", that is free of sexual prejudices and stereotypes.)... The last theory is probably closest to the truth...
National Front Disco song.
Moz is not endorsing the dumb choice of the boy, newly minted NF member, but on opposite, shows his pity and concern for this lost soul... Only blind and deaf (like some PC peoples) could not recognize the Moz's bitter irony in the song name... Homophobic, sexist NFD members and Disco, the institution most beloved by chicks and gays...
Moz "infamous" Union Jack waving...
As of Morrissey, wrapping himself into Union Jack at 1992, I could wonder, why this understandable "working class Bruce Springsteen-like patriotic display" gesture produced such a bad blood between him and Anglo liberals in England? No one of clear mind would accuse poetic and Oscar-Wildean Moz in sympathies to National Front... Perhaps quite a few of PC crowd in 1992 England were so dogmatic and inflexible in their beliefs & convictions, they all were too ready to put a label on such an independent and idiosyncratic soul as Moz for expressing "politically incorrect" patriotic feelings... Perhaps Moz wanted to say: "Yes, I was born Irish but England is my country too, and, if necessary, I'm ready to defend it from enemies... Not necessary Nazis, but enemies such as ignorance, philistinism, vulgarity, hate..." Definitely any thoughts of Moz identification with NF are preposterous...
P.S. Just an off-topi
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Brim Full of Confusion on My 45 . . . (Score:0)
Hypocrisy (Score:0)
excuse me? (Score:1)
Don't hate me, but that's how I feel.
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Dumb ass loser (Score:1)
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Please explain this bit (Score:0)
Say wha? Did Morrissey come out of the closet and I totally missed it?