Personally I love Kent, and have done so for just as long a time as I've loved Moz (although not as religiously).
Jocke Berg is a great lyricist and the music is often heartbreaking and beautiful.
I think you put what you like in that word. See it as someone who takes music in a non-serious way, as something passing. Like a trend. One who subscribes to a way of being without really putting any real sentiment behind it.
I know what you mean, the law of jante, no one can understand how brainwashed you get by growing up in scandinavia. But I love a lot of swedish music; The Hives, Joakim Thåström, Marit Bergman, Escobar. The thing about Kent is that in one song they sang "the price we paid to be the best is that we bacame like the rest" and they did actually in one way. Morrissey does his own thing, he has done that all the time, and he follows through with it. He's still controversial, he refuses to compromize himself. And in one sense Kent's lyrics are different from a lot of other swedish music, but I feel that it's only words, they don't follow through.Jocke Berg has turned into one of those famous people who very likely could turn up in next weeks edition of Hemmets Journal and make some sort of "at home with"-article about how lovely it is to live in Bromma with his wife (or Eskilstuna or where ever he lives nowadays) and their 4 kids and their dog and talk about how lovely it is to eat dinner with their neighbour every friday night. So all the lyrics just seem like empty words to me.
Have brain surgery then...
Again, it's art we're discussing here. Brains have nothing to do with art. It's pure emotion.
Art is not pure emotion. It's not even primarily emotion.
cheers
I wish I was cool enough to be a hipster.
Please, please, please, let me be a hipster for once.
Art is not pure emotion. It's not even primarily emotion.
cheers
While we live and breathe Morrissey others only like him because they see him as some underground pop icon.. just a skinny puny singer with thick rimmed glasses and a cardigan and flowers... they like that morrissey.
They would never like beat up morrissey from the southpaw stage.. or masculine you are quarry moz..
and I doubt they'd enjoin years of refusal..
Pisses me off because I've gotten in a couple of arguements with people on facebook because they'll post a smiths video one second and then a kanye west video..
It sickens me
If you start live your own life (leave parents house, earn your wages / salary to survive), you will learn to be put up with others who do not share the same view of a British pop singer.
I haven't been upsetted by comments from the people who do not understand / interested in the singers / bands I like.
You're right. As for me, I'm leaving my own life, have kids, have to feed them, etc etc, and so certainly the reasons why other people listen to Morrissey or not...well, I usually have other things to think about! BUT the adolescent who's still alive inside me (thank God!) shares the feelings with Mute Witness and Gregor Samsa: I find irritating when people say they listen to Morrissey as if they had to, because they have to seem cool or indie, or music experts or something. I'm very proud to be not cool and to be one who FEELS what my beloved Morrissey sings and who's close to his heart and soul someway. Then the adult part of me says to my brain: "the others are ok, you are insane, they just listen to a singer, which he is, you desperately love him, come on, you're 32". No, sorry, but he's not just a singer. We know.
As I said above, how do you know that Morrissey's songs / lyrics are not felt by those you consider to be ''cool or indie''? Who are you to judge them on a passing meeting at a gig or a club or walking past them whilst they wear a Smiths / Morrisey shirt? You know nothing about their lives so do not judge them so.
Morrissey + Hipsters = money for morrissey....he likes them. Half of his audiences are hipsters. The 'real' fans seem a wee bit mental & are a small % (with any pop/rock music it is the same). If it wasn't for 'the hipster' he won't have a career or an audience or a decent bank balance.
How do you know this?