Morrissey’s ‘World Peace Is None of Your Business’: Track-by-Track Review (77 rating) - Billboard
By Kenneth Partridge
By Kenneth Partridge
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Is it just me or is "Kick the Bride" not about a particular woman who recently
departed company quite acrimoniously with Morrissey?
Er, you all know Golden Lights is a cover version, right? God, some of the halfwits on here...
Er, you all know Golden Lights is a cover version, right? God, some of the halfwits on here...
Of course I know that. I don't understand why that matters though - if Morrissey chose to cover 'Smack My Bitch Up', would that be more or less acceptible than a song called 'Kick The Bride Down The Aisle'?
Can't imagine The Smiths or early solo Moz sanctioning a song as godawful as 'Kick The Bride Down The Aisle'.....
Why aren't you equally angered by "I'm Not A Man"? A song that, you know, attacks men.
Well, that's just a rubbish song - it suffers from the same issue that plagues much of his current output in being far, far too literal and hectoring.
It's not attacking men, rather the perceived notion of what it means to be a man. Essentially, its a shopping list of Morrissey's gripes with the media and culture, and as such it's like shooting fish in a barrel - a bit vapid, insipid, but hard to really argue with.
Whereas 'Kick The Bride...' is, I sense, being deliberately contentious and is far more spiteful and vicious in its sentiments.
Oh, you're just splitting hairs. "Man" is attacking men who are like that just as "Bride" attacks women who are like that. To be offended by one and not the other is a sexist response in itself.
And, I sense, you sense wrongly about its intent. "I'm Not A Man" is a fine song however, whereas "Bride", though okay, should have been switched for one of the extras.
Yeah, you're probably right, I just took a look at the lyrics and they're both truly horrible and mean spirited.
Oh, I see! The board just got a new troll! The problem is Morrissey has a sense of humour... unfortunately some of his fans don't.
That's not correct. By convention, song lyrics are generalisable. You couldn't, for example, write a song called "Burn the Smelly Thieving Jew" and expect people to take seriously the excuse that it's just an innocent ditty about a particular person of a particular religious persuasion who happens to have kleptomania and a personal hygiene problem. What Morrissey has written is a song about heterosexual women. Defend the song if you like, but I don't think you'll convince many people by just playing dumb about it.
I'm not a troll, I just disagree. A sense of humour is fine, but these are nasty and bitchy jokes, if jokes they are. What a waste.
This is like one of those people who used to write in to Points Of View to complain about something they spent an hour watching. If something offends you then just turn the f***er off and go and listen to something else.
For all his faults I don't buy the misogyny thing with Morrissey, most of his heroes are women for a start.
Don't worry about Orson, Agharta. He's from the future.
Don't worry about Orson, Agharta. He's from the future.
This is like one of those people who used to write in to Points Of View to complain about something they spent an hour watching. If you didn't like it just turn the f***er off and go and listen to something else.