Belligerent Ghoul
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I know it's over still I cling...
I know it's over still I cling...
The tour cancellation is a big setback after a great start to the World Peace… era, but the spoken word videos have been really nice, there's a new album +extra tracks coming out which people will buy whether or not he's on tour, and Morrissey is still, as always, in the news. Empirically speaking -- not over.
Refresh my memory, what was behind the cancellation?
and he has a proper new songwriter for the first time since 2006
Gustavo Manzur ?
The tour cancellation is a big setback after a great start to the World Peace… era, but the spoken word videos have been really nice, there's a new album +extra tracks coming out which people will buy whether or not he's on tour, and Morrissey is still, as always, in the news. Empirically speaking -- not over.
Refresh my memory, what was behind the cancellation?
Enough to the same one person who so butthurt because they tried to harass Moz in public and Donnie stopped it.
What will be interesting is exactly what kind of deal Morrissey signed with Harvest. We know for years record companies were only interested in offering Morrissey what is known as a '360 deal', where they get a cut of touring income as well as record sales. Did he finally give in and sign one with Harvest? If Harvest have funded the latest disastrous US tour, then they will be out of pocket, and given his health Morrissey looks unlikely to have any long-term future as a touring artist. If he isn't phsycally able to go out on the road and earn money, the relationship between Morrissey and Harvest could hit the skids very quickly.
Personally, I think in today's climate, these two Harvest records will be Morrissey's final two solo records. I honestly can't see how they are going to be multi-million sellers that will rescue his career. Short of a desperate, last-minute attempt to reconnect with Marr, with all the attendant hype and publicity that will bring, I think we are in the end stages.
His career is over in the sense that his writing and choice of songwriting partners is uninspired, and has been since he parted ways with Alain Whyte.
Will he continue touring? Yes.
But not only is he a shadow of the artist he was in The Smiths and the Vauxhall and I era, he's now not even a shadow of what he was just 10 years ago.