TTY: New Morrissey T-shirt

- OLink from an anonymous person:

New Morrissey T-shirt - true-to-you.net
15 March 2017

Available at forthcoming Morrissey shows in North America.
Also available on Mporium.

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Media coverage:

• Morrissey Selling James Baldwin “Black Is How I Feel on the Inside” Shirts - Pitchfork. Link posted by Uncleskinny.
• Morrissey is selling racist t-shirts because he is a f***ing idiot - FACT Magazine. Link posted by an anonymous person.
• Morrissey’s New T-Shirt Is a Very Bad Idea - SPIN. Link posted by an anonymous person.
• Morrissey selling ‘Black is how I feel on the inside’ t-shirts featuring civil rights activist James Baldwin - NME. Link from Rene.
• Morrissey Sells Racist T-Shirt, Gets Dragged By the Internet, Stops Selling Racist T-Shirt - Flavorwire. Link posted by an anonymous person.
  
• Morrissey Is Selling This Horrible T-Shirt, Because of Course He Is - The Grapevine. Link posted by Raphael Lambach.
• Morrissey Attempted Selling Racially Tone-Deaf James Baldwin Tee - Out Magazine
• Morrissey is selling a James Baldwin “Black Is How I Feel on the Inside” t-shirt - Consequence Of Sound
  
• Bigmouth strikes again: row over Morrissey's James Baldwin tour T-shirt - The Guardian. Link posted by an anonymous person.
  
• Please, Please, Please, Let Me Print What I Want: Morrissey’s James Baldwin merchandise - Melville House. Link from the above Guardian article.
• ‘Problematic’ Morrissey t-shirt removed from sale - NME. Link from Rene.
• Morrissey takes T-shirt offsale after accusations of racism - The Telegraph. Link posted by Irregular Regular.
• In Defense of Black Morrissey - Out Magazine. Link posted by Roberto F. / Facebook.

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Related item:

• Morrissey in cinema watching James Baldwin documentary - Feb. 3, 2017

 

[nicky wire's legs]

Hi rifke good to hear from you.

Because I must !
Please be aware that in your absence we now have a small minded poster onboard who insists on us all spilling corrictly

* running

It posts by the name of P J or something or other.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend rifke.

Benny-the-British-Butcher (for you only)

oh dear, i can't believe i did that, oh my, that is embarrassing. oh benny, thank you ever so for your concern in helping me avoid any run-ins with small minded posters. i will try to be more fastidious with my typing! mwah! have a good weekend yourself!

 

[Quando quando quando]

nah my morrissey letter writing days are over, so morrissey is just shit out of luck. i have, as they say on oprah, moved on. i may take up writing prison inmates instead-- you can support me by sending me candy and dutch bag cakes. thanks in advance!

Only if you promise me the candy and the Dutch bag cakes are for you and not for the prison inmates.

 

[nicky wire's legs]

Only if you promise me the candy and the Dutch bag cakes are for you and not for the prison inmates.

prison inmates need cakes and candy too! but they'd have to pry them from my cold dead hands.

 

[Anonymous]

Morrissey is simply out of old cult heroes and therefor dwelled into black culture and Baldwin wearing black and being black was perfect Morrissey humour that also adds a twist that means we end up debating it. Still cannot kick this feeling of a white guy pretending to know what it means to be black which is worse that racism somehow.

 

[Anonymous]

But that was in 1992!
Maybe he was wrong? Give him some slack, for christsake.
Maybe he changed his mind a bit since then, hmm? No, he is not allowed.

And even much longer before he expressed his appreciation about a lot of black music and people like Dionne Warwick, Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets, songs like Young, Gifted And Black, The Ronettes.

He likes James Baldwin, the other James (Brown) too.
He said it. Would a real racist say that? I can't believe it.

The only mild criticism you could have is he said it when they were no longer with us.
But that only confirms another, more or less selfloathing statement he made too, like "All the people I like are those who are dead".

Read his reply properly. He was talking about people in general. He was saying in 1992 that there will always be hate between human beings, and how right he was. Go on the streets and watch the news in 2017. I don't know why people ever saw something fishy in this reply. Maybe because I think the same. It is a realistic outlook on life. Most things on this planet you can't erase completely. You can go on and try to make it better for everyone, but ultimately you can't erase it. This is a fact that many idealistic people in history struggled with.

 

[Judge Judy]

Morrissey is simply out of old cult heroes and therefor dwelled into black culture and Baldwin wearing black and being black was perfect Morrissey humour that also adds a twist that means we end up debating it. Still cannot kick this feeling of a white guy pretending to know what it means to be black which is worse that racism somehow.

It's almost as if he comes out of his five star troll hole once in a while to provide the music press and the world in general with material to use against him while at the same time testing the ability of the Mozbots to defend him. He treats the Mozbots the same as he did Kristeen Young, really. They're delusional but good for a laugh.

 

[Gerhard Richter]

 

[Anonymous]

Or how about

"Where is our boy? Oh, we've lost our boy"

Tour dates/cancellations on the reverse with maybe some gang imagery of knuckle dusters and flick knives.
On a yellow t-shirt, Pantone ref 2371 U (Dubliner Kerrygold yellow)


BtBB

 

[Anonymous]

You never know but at this rate Chuck Berry could be getting a full on celebrity death statement from Steven.
You can never tell !

Benny-the-British-Butcher

 

[butley]

If the photo was Sylvia Plath instead nobody would have batted an eyelid. I like the tee shirt but a bolder coloured background would have been better.

 

[ShyShy_Flower]

I had an experience like this as a teen and the Patti Smith song Rock N Roll N*****, those lyrics "outside of society is where I wanna be", felt right because that's where I was compared to the majority. Despite the N-word being sung in the chorus, It's saying it as a word that alienates and vilifies people ( all people/any person) who do not conform to the mainstream way of thinking.
There are many things that alienate people: mental illness is one of those things, being gay is another of those things, as well as being a person of color, or if you're like me, even just being a little strange.
So stay strong Moz, some of us get it.

 

[ZOOM FROM GLOOM]

If the photo was Sylvia Plath instead nobody would have batted an eyelid. I like the tee shirt but a bolder coloured background would have been better.

I agree, but if Plath was on the front, it wouldn't have made sense, at least not to M.

I believe this is the second time M has stated that this Smiths line is not about or just about depression, to him. Just goes to show that most listeners took the line at face value and quickly attributed it to feeling depressed,etc on the inside(so did I). Not saying the listener is wrong for the song is open to interpretation as it should be, but to him he seems to be making the point clearly that for him the line is/was not just about depression. Which should really be of no surprise to anyone, for he has always shown that he has been and still is moved and inspired by certain black artists.



And M being an artist an individual and outsider it's not difficult to see that he would be moved and would empathize with others (regardless of gender or race) who are outsiders or are treated as outsiders.



.

 

[Anonymous]

Just watched "I, Daniel Blake" a true Northern film that old "Smiths Steve" would have loved before he went all 5* big time dried up Charlie.
R I P Daniel.
Please donate food and feminine hygiene products to your local food bank collection points.

Benny-the-British-Butcher

 

[Anonymous]

Morrissey Zulu

 

[Anonymous]

Ali G might have been a better choice of cover star?

 

[Anonymous]

Just watched "I, Daniel Blake" a true Northern film that old "Smiths Steve" would have loved before he went all 5* big time dried up Charlie.
R I P Daniel.
Please donate food and feminine hygiene products to your local food bank collection points.

Benny-the-British-Butcher

Nice try at trying to disguise your Movie Blog as a Morrissey Solo post.

Hurts that the world won't listen eh Benny?

 

[Anonymous]

Morrissey Zulu

We are all Africans pal.

 

[nicky wire's legs]

If the photo was Sylvia Plath instead nobody would have batted an eyelid. I like the tee shirt but a bolder coloured background would have been better.

i would have winced at the cliche, since sylvia plath tended to dress more with style in mind than mood, and therefore likely didnt wear black on the outside because black was how she felt on the inside.

 

[Deleted member 1074]

We are all Africans pal.

You may as well be saying "We are all bacteria from the ocean, pal."

 

[King Leer]

RIP Chuck Berry.
The way he introduces Roll Over Beethoven here reminds me of some of Morrissey's diction/self-deprecation/wit:


What was the origin of the "Beethoven Was Deaf" title, anyway?