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Morrissey's satirical ambivalence is hard to translate into journalese. They need to pin him down to get a news angle.
When he lamented that England was a memory because he couldn't hear a British accent on London's wealthiest street it was conflated with inflammatory tabloid rhetoric instead of his own mutterings that everything good is dead:
& shouldn't be forgotten:
& everything bad, including himself, should be dead:
& if it's not dead, it's terrible:
(you can see the way the narrative has built itself around the flag fabrication, throwing in Panic & skipping lightly over his actual words straight to the paper's agenda or comparing it to something someone else said or might say).
When he made an ill-advised but figurative barb at China to convey his incredulity at their treatment of animals, he was accused of genocidal racism.
He didn't grasp he was being accused of genocidal racism so he tried again to explain that China is very cruel to animals.
China is very cruel to animals, the legacy of a catastrophic famine & an ideological war against bourgeois sentiment,
but really The Guardian knew what he meant & was giving him a kicking for not letting them use their photoshoot pictures, suing a sister publication & the sheer audacity of a cult artist paying no heed to the climate of opinion & being difficult.
Years later he was chided for wanting to play there:
It's the worst sounding thing he's ever said & gets paraphrased & literalised into 'he said the Chinese are a subspecies'.
In the same vein, a clumsy comment against racism & alluding to in-group bias (group identity couldn't exist without an inclination towards each other, race is another word for group) has been paraphrased into 'he said he prefers his own race'.
Which, in the context of Morrissey, is ridiculous.
He doesn't feel he belongs anywhere:
Was intensely isolated:
Is pessimistic, dislikes authority & thinks people are the same everywhere.
Mostly suspects heterosexual men & carnivores:
When he lamented that England was a memory because he couldn't hear a British accent on London's wealthiest street it was conflated with inflammatory tabloid rhetoric instead of his own mutterings that everything good is dead:
& shouldn't be forgotten:
& everything bad, including himself, should be dead:
& if it's not dead, it's terrible:
(you can see the way the narrative has built itself around the flag fabrication, throwing in Panic & skipping lightly over his actual words straight to the paper's agenda or comparing it to something someone else said or might say).
Morrissey vs NME: Mozgate Part II
During an interview, Morrissey has opened his Big Mouth (again) and said something he shouldn't. Or ... has he?
www.theguardian.com
When he made an ill-advised but figurative barb at China to convey his incredulity at their treatment of animals, he was accused of genocidal racism.
He didn't grasp he was being accused of genocidal racism so he tried again to explain that China is very cruel to animals.
China is very cruel to animals, the legacy of a catastrophic famine & an ideological war against bourgeois sentiment,
China's Great Famine: the true story
The famine that killed up to 45 million people remains a taboo subject in China 50 years on. Author Yang Jisheng is determined to change that with his book, Tombstone
www.theguardian.com
but really The Guardian knew what he meant & was giving him a kicking for not letting them use their photoshoot pictures, suing a sister publication & the sheer audacity of a cult artist paying no heed to the climate of opinion & being difficult.
Inky Fingers: Morrissey leaves his scratchmarks on Simon Armitage | Morrissey | The Guardian
A salute to the eternal combat-readiness of Morrissey, but is it time for Mojo to put away the sandbags?
amp.theguardian.com
Years later he was chided for wanting to play there:
Morrissey (Sunday Times Magazine, Nov. 26, 2017) – Chrissy Iley
chrissyiley.com
It's the worst sounding thing he's ever said & gets paraphrased & literalised into 'he said the Chinese are a subspecies'.
In the same vein, a clumsy comment against racism & alluding to in-group bias (group identity couldn't exist without an inclination towards each other, race is another word for group) has been paraphrased into 'he said he prefers his own race'.
Which, in the context of Morrissey, is ridiculous.
He doesn't feel he belongs anywhere:
Was intensely isolated:
Is pessimistic, dislikes authority & thinks people are the same everywhere.
Mostly suspects heterosexual men & carnivores:
Morrissey Interview with Jim Nelson - GQ September 2012
On the eve of his first record in seven years, Morrissey opens up his Los Angeles home, sits down for an exclusive interview with GQ—then stands up in some of his favorite suits
www.gq.com
This Charming Man: An Interview With Morrissey - Rookie
"My life as a teenager was so relentlessly foul."
www.rookiemag.com