There's been so much freakin' Morrissey overkill on this website lately that I actually read this title as "Premature Evaluation: Morrissey The Next Day."
I, of course, thought "WHAT!? When did Morrissey say anything about this?" Then I preceded to read the entire first paragraph slightly confused why it was all about David Bowie. THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO ME STEREOGUM! Please, help me.
I love most of Amanda Palmer's music and I think some this stuff she is doing is really cool, but she falls victim to this mindset a lot of people (particularly artistic people) have that the world they operate in is broken, and it might be, but only they know how to fix it. So they go around giving people ideological ultimatums about the "way it all should be" when they're really only basing they're opinion on their own limited experiences and don't actually have any real lasting solutions to offer. This kind of "asking/bohemian" lifestyle might be fine for her, but I think she'll find that it, in of itself, isn't really sustainable and probably not for every musician in the first place.
The only way for Morrissey to ever seem pleasant these days is to probably look at him through the eyes of a teenage girl.
If I interviewed him the first question probably would have been something like,
"So, Mozzer, you're music is beloved by and changed the lives of literally hundreds of thousands if not millions of people over the last thirty plus years, but lately you've kind of been acting like a dick. Thoughts on this?"
I associate the Harlem Reaction video to a bunch of fans of a band reacting to finding out that same band changed their sound and are no insanely popular.
I recently had a long debate with two of my friends over whether or not the Harlem Shake is racist/inappropriate. While I think that most black people outside of the New York (and Harlem in particular) could care less about the name associated with the meme I think that it's gotten completely out of hand and is annoying as hell.
"I’d like people to be aware of the pangs of childbirth, and that every male is not necessarily a man. But perhaps these are topics for another time." 'Gum you left out the rest of the quote, "And just generally that I'm more enlightened and committed to my beliefs than posers like "sir" Paul, but, you know, another time another place perhaps. Cheerio!"
I really thought this was already understood, but here's the thing: Morrissey is a crazy person. He's going to have some... let's call them eccentricities. This is virtually a non-story when you consider who it's coming from.
I was at this show, and it was good, but MSG really needs to stop shoving opening acts on stage the second the doors open. Icona Pop played for MAYBE 20 minutes and by the time we got to our floor seats (which we were told we had to go around to another entrance to get to after we had already been through security on the main entrance) we'd already missed a third of their set.
People can say what they want about Axl being an obnoxious, mentally unstable d-bag, but I saw GN'R maybe 12 years ago (buckethead was the guitarist at the time) and they put on an amazing show. It took them two hours to get on stage, but once they did... I gotta say, I was impressed.
It's not exactly a good comparison, Chad. First of all, there is a link to the domestic abuse article right on the page being all "Hey, remember this?" Second, an artist like John Lennon has the benefit of a widely known and expansive catalogue to judge against his shortcomings as a human. All I pretty much know about Surfer Blood is a handful of decent indie-pop songs and their abusive lead singer. I read a little while ago, an article co-written by Chuck Klosterman where he made the point, in instances of celebrity crime/flaws, we don't judge the person (because we don't actually know them) what actually happens is that person becomes an example of the act. You might say people are being self-righteous by making that association, but arent you being self-righteous yourself for pointing it out the way you are?
Yeah, I see what you're saying Chad. At the end of the day, it really doesn't matter. But the domestic violence story is still pretty fresh in mine and everyone elses' mind. Personally, your art needs to overcome any shortcomings you have as a person. I'm not sure if I like Blood Surfers enough for them to pass that test. And Chris Brown certainly doesn't.
A tip of my hat to Big Boi. It takes a certain kind of man to dedicate your entire verse to anal sex in a slow jam and still respect yourself in the morning.
My lasting memory of this band was way back when they performed on Letterman and the singer just went ape shit while playing "Get Free" it was awful, but fun to watch in a trainwreck sort of way.
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