Worm
Taste the diffidence
I think you, Mr Worm, (and others in this thread) make the huge mistake of assuming that Morrissey is some kind of musical genius. He's gone on record as saying that he doesn't even consider himself to be a musician.
Speaking for myself, I never said he was a great musician. I said he did a lot to shape the songs, which has been stated many times by all of his collaborators, including Johnny Marr. I think Morrissey would laugh at the idea that he's simply the singer in a group-- as an example of this, I point to the fact that he has told journalists, on more than one occasion, that he regards The Smiths' songs as his songs. He's used those very words. He doesn't say, "The Smiths, the band I used to sing in..." They're his songs, he's said, and he would say the same of his post-1987 material.
I also tried to argue not that Morrissey somehow radically transforms the music, but only that it was the producer, not the band, who made the decisive difference in the sound.
I’m sorry but the idea that he's throwing his career down the drain is nonsense. ... the idea that he’s suddenly found himself in serious trouble, commercially or artistically, is rubbish.
"Nonsense"? "Rubbish"? He doesn't have a record contract.