"I do not make music with the hope that I might be patted on the back with a meaningless Grammy bought for me by a major label. Almost everything I do and say goes against the sympathies of the music industry."
Given the plaintive wailings about Grammys, BRITs and the abusive insults directed towards popular figures such as Ed Sheeran, this comment rings as hollow and insincere. Quite clearly Morrissey is obsessed with gaining a major label contract with the marketing machine to push him into the mainstream marketplace. It's not that he disagrees with the music industry but that he feels there is some injustice that others are given the industry muscle that he craves so that they reach the 'clueless consumers' who, by rights, should be focussed upon Morrissey's supposedly superior products. If he really doesn't care, there's nothing to stop him releasing his music outside of that construct and allowing Word Of Mouth to build a genuine Audience purely on the basis of the quality of the music and words. It might be a useful Thought Experiment for Morrissey to consider imposing a vow of silence on himself with regards to other artists and his bitchy rants against their success. He is an entirely conventional figure in the music industry, foisting pseudo rebellion via inconsequential Vegetarianism and cherry-picking genuinely Radical Art to appear as Outsider when all he craves is to be lauded and applauded by the Corporate Structures of marketing and payola critics that he now claims are anathema. It's absolutely impossible to imagine many of the genuinely subversive Artists who Morrissey cherry-picks in his magpie raids on Radical Chic ever giving a toss about The Public or any response from them. Morrissey mourns the collapse of a hierarchical music industry which his youthful wit and fake Rebel Yell briefly allowed him to control through the Gatekeepers of the time such as the NME. His rants about X-Factor culture in delusional songs such as 'Kid's A Looker' are a symptom of this profound anger at his career derailment. He assumed the Universe was Just and that he would reap the rewards of 'global, religious Fame' which he has dedicated his 33 year Civil Service workaholic career to. He claims to have no life outside of music, this is no different than the average psychopath who gets to run a large business Corporation. Many of the most profoundly respected and popular Artists in music didn't achieve immediate success or 'fame' and some only became household names posthumously. Quite why this note about his confused position on Animal Liberation begins with a pointless aside/snipe against The Music Business is unclear.
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