First & foremost, í wish that Morrissey hadn't made his choice to support this political party. í don't agree with their take on the world. But it is just that ~ Morrissey's choice. Toss it on the mile-high pile of wishes denied; that's life. This fresh fuss about the badge ruining an otherwise lovely bit of schmutter is slightly baffling, in that he had already made a clearly stated, categorical on-the-record statement of support for the group months ago. So, why would he not wear one of their wee badges? Did people hope he didn't mean it? Or changed his mind? í don't get the fresh clamour.
But í have just about had it with these virtue-signalling, half-wit lightweight no-marks, like Gerry Hassan, and all the rest, bleating about betrayal and Morrissey as 'the voice of the loner & sensitive outsider'.
Morrissey was, and is, the voice of Morrissey: The rest is up to you.
From "Hand in Glove" to "Brow of my Beloved", he is singing on behalf of: Steven Patrick f***ing Morrissey, not as the officially appointed General of an army of sensitive loner lovelies who only ever vote for the one (Left-leaning) political party.
Morrissey sings from a particularly unique viewpoint, one that in 1983 had not really been heard before in this country, and wrote and sang in such a way (whose true artistic complexities and subtleties have rarely been adequately analysed) that, pretty much from the get-go, inspired a level of devotion and obsession that hadn't been seen since Bowie. (Mimickry, chants and flower flinging were all in place by '84.)
Now, í'm not saying that there aren't charges to answer as to how Morrissey may have encouraged or exploited this devotion. He was intimately aware, like few other pop stars (see Bowie, again) of the intricacies of pop worship, and was undoubtedly a master at manipulating such tender webs, but the core lure was, at heart, the words that he wrote and the way that he sang them.
But, for that, he doesn't owe anybody anything.
He's not the Messiah; he's a very naughty boy!
And just what does, "He has destroyed his raison d’être" actually mean? Morrissey has destroyed his reason for existing? To then follow it with "he needs to understand that what he stands for is unacceptable"; it's all a bit too...Joe Stalin for my liking?
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