Was/Is Morrissey Racist?

^ looked up this Beverly Hills number, reached a mansion owned by Ricky Martin 2004-2006, and by Michael & Shakira Caine 1976-87, who installed a pool that extended from the living room to outdoors, but the next owners removed the indoor part, before a later buyer razed the entire house.

phone numbers vaguely related to people who have not figured out how to live

in not-entirely-startling news: armond white is on twitter arguing that the most recent three morrissey LPs are the best of his career

I'm sad to report that…

He's still among us.

Hmph

Saw this thread and immediately thought the worst/best.

considering what this last year has done to loads of previously-seemingly-ok musicians, I dread to think what Morrissey's next pronouncement will be when he emerges again.

Ffs pom

https://i.imgur.com/VVRlt4N.jpg

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Being parodied by latter day Simpsons, I mean why would you even bother drawing attention to it? Like being savaged by a dead sheep.

Simpsons show
Morrissey character
Beatles band

"I wish this show about a fictional musician had told millions of people about several of the many racist things that the real Morrissey has said and sung, so that they could really get into him"

"Other shows like SNL still do a great job at finding ways to inspire great satire" - no they don't, but I still hope someone from the show reads this and they insult Morrissey in some way in an upcoming episode

Utterly shocked that Morrissey has a very thin white skin and time on his hands

you have to admit it is pretty racist to show him with his belly hanging out

wait who wrote this? is talking about himself in 3rd person just a thing he does? and i'm pretty sure he has sued or threatened to sue multiple times? isn't that part of the reason he got such an easy ride in the press until things got this bad?

What's with the greengrocer's apostrophe

he sued the NME and settled out of court

i always hated the smith's

i think it's probably his management who wrote that post since iirc he isn't in the habit of writing in third person when he does personally make those sort of statements but he probably dictated the general gist of the post to them

it's probably some poor bastard from his band, same guy who was all "he was complaining about anti-brexit MEDIA, not anti-brexit audiences".

would also make sense because I can't really imagine Morrissey having a working knowledge of what the Simpsons or SNL even are, as they are not British pop hits from 1962

get out bart i'm piss

Yeah, this doesn’t read like Morrissey’s writing at all, tbh.

But when a show stoops so low to use harshly hateful tactics like showing the Morrissey character with his belly hanging out of his shirt (when he has never looked like that at any point in his career) makes you wonder who the real hurtful, racist group is here.

But when a show stoops so low to use harshly hateful tactics like showing the Morrissey character with his belly hanging out of his shirt (when he has never looked like that at any point in his career) makes you wonder who the real hurtful, racist group is here.

But when a show stoops so low to use harshly hateful tactics like showing the Morrissey character with his belly hanging out of his shirt (when he has never looked like that at any point in his career) makes you wonder who the real hurtful, racist group is here.

really makes u think

makes you think

lmao

:D

racist against bequiffed Mancunian miserabilists

Also, while I might quibble with aspects of Azaria's apology, I think publicly apologizing is taking that mirror and holding it up to yourself.

the belly hanging out of the shirt thing makes me positive it IS morrissey

Last Night I Dreamt That I Was a Viking

Did a googles image search of Morrissey topless and now I have to go and bleach my eyes.

Apparently he has a habit of taking off his shirt during encores and throwing it to the audience.

Don’t search on youtube - Morrissey encore shirt - unless you got eyebleach ready.

Is his belly hanging out of his shirt before he takes it off?

i went to a morrissey show where he took his shirt off and i wish i hadn't

the belly hanging out of the shirt thing makes me positive it IS morrissey

However, after Lisa has an opportunity to attend a Snuffs reunion concert, she soon discovers that Quilloughby is no longer his former self — instead, he’s now overweight, racist, and worst of all, he eats meat. “I was [a vegan], until I found out veganism was invented by foreigners, for whom there are far too many on this planet,” Quilloughby proclaims.

i went to a morrissey show where he took his shirt off and i wish i hadn't

My condolences.

Come to think of it, I've never heard any of his solo material and at this point I'm not sure I want to anyway?

Wait sorry I hadn’t read the full screed, DON’T SUE ME STEPHEN

Meanwhile, “Morrissey has never made a ‘cash grab’, hasn’t sued any people for their attacks, has never stopped performing great shows, and is still a serious vegan and strong supporter for animal rights,” the singer proclaimed. “By suggesting all of the above in this episode…The Simpsons’ hypocritical approach to their storyline says it all.”

Come to think of it, I've never heard any of his solo material and at this point I'm not sure I want to anyway?

[Viva Hate (such an innocuous title at the time!) holds up pretty well. Vini Reilly really shines on it.

his solo work is 100% garbage except for a handful of tracks off Viva Hate

Yeah any posts that don’t mention Vauxhall & I can be safely ignored. Still incredible.

his weird true-to-you statements were usually first-person though similar in vibe to this one

some of his solo work is decent but overall it generally comes across as a less distinctive version of his stuff with the smiths due to most of his collaborators being pretty boring musicians overall, vini reilly on viva hate being the exception. generally more straight-forward pop/glam rock in sound, less jangly than the smiths etc., and there was a weird rockabilly influence for a bit iirc?

don't have any desire to revisit any of it really these days though

bona drag is a really good comp, i'd probably choose that if i had to choose one

Viva Hate, seemed like such an innocuous title when all we knew was that he sang "shelve your Western plans and understand that life is hard enough when you belong here" on it. Sweet innocence.

I agree that Vauxhall & I is OPO for solo Morrissey btw but feel even more strongly that if you're not a big Smiths fan to begin with, you'd be fine steering clear.

I like The Smiths but I wouldn’t describe myself as a fan.

everything through Vauxhall is strong and then the drop off is precipitous