Re: Important True To You update: Internet image
Can't even.
Can't even.
Jesus, some people on here have lost their sense of humour.
Isn't the pic of Moz from one of the CD covers, can't remember which one?
[Coda] I reached a conclusion yesterday, this is merely confirmation. I expect this 'internet image' will be the stage backdrop for the arena shows when ye olde 'radical anti-Royalist anthem' entitled 'The Queen Is Dead' is played. He's beyond satire, beyond parody. Pantomime.
30 years ago, when he was shielded by a compliant media and had the get out clauses of 'misquoted' or 'out of context', it was possible to construct your own image of Morrissey such that the songs remained coherent, plausible and congruent with a progressive worldview. That's no longer possible. He's destoyed it all. He's become an utterly oafish clown who protests about how social media has robbed him of 'serious attention' but now throws his image on the bonfire of his vanity.
He's spent his whole life chasing the phantoms of 'fame' only to find that Fame itself is being consumed by the withering technologies of social media. He simply doesn't now what to do. If he was even remotely respectful to his youthful dreams he'd have retired by now ,but he's addicted to a media spotlight that is increasingly turned away from him. Hence, desperation.
I guess there's a vanishingly small chance this is the prelude to some massive crash'n'burn and rebirth but even if it is, it's become an embarassment to even monitor his implosion. Nails on blackboard.
And it's not just him. The entire charade of popular music as 'rebellion' or 'progressive force' has been shown to be bogus. It's all now just a part of the Consumer Lifestyle Project of Late Capitalism. Once you strip pop music of any potential for meaningful social change it just becomes noise pollution.
I've enjoyed working towards this conclusion using "Morrissey" as Exhibit A. I guess he deserves credit for pushing the whole preposterous nonsense to some sort of beserk crescendo, but I have better things to do with my remaining years than listen to him. I think it's rather sad that he doesn't also have anything better to do than troll himself and his increasingly confused audience with this masochistic self-ridicule.
Goodbye
best
BB
Just found it. It's from the inner sleeve of, Throwing my arms around Paris, where the whole band are naked, looks like someone photo shopped it from there.
Think it's hilarious personally
Well if you've run out of songs what else can one do ?
Ticket sales must be really shit for the 'arena tour'
He really is the gift that keeps on giving B B !
Looking well for a man with CANCER and all his other illnesses isn't he ?
Oh Steven what shall we do with you, you big crank ?
Benny-the-British-Butcher
I don't. It's immature and in poor taste.Love it!
Next thing I would do is check Tinder. Maybe Moz is drunk and lonely and he wants an excuse to show his naked body so he can get laid.
Beats the alternative: That it's some sort of asinine political statement!
Just found it. It's from the inner sleeve of, Throwing my arms around Paris, where the whole band are naked, looks like someone photo shopped it from there.
Think it's hilarious personally
So it's come to this.
[Coda] I reached a conclusion yesterday, this is merely confirmation. I expect this 'internet image' will be the stage backdrop for the arena shows when ye olde 'radical anti-Royalist anthem' entitled 'The Queen Is Dead' is played. He's beyond satire, beyond parody. Pantomime.
30 years ago, when he was shielded by a compliant media and had the get out clauses of 'misquoted' or 'out of context', it was possible to construct your own image of Morrissey such that the songs remained coherent, plausible and congruent with a progressive worldview. That's no longer possible. He's destoyed it all. He's become an utterly oafish clown who protests about how social media has robbed him of 'serious attention' but now throws his image on the bonfire of his vanity.
He's spent his whole life chasing the phantoms of 'fame' only to find that Fame itself is being consumed by the withering technologies of social media. He simply doesn't now what to do. If he was even remotely respectful to his youthful dreams he'd have retired by now ,but he's addicted to a media spotlight that is increasingly turned away from him. Hence, desperation.
I guess there's a vanishingly small chance this is the prelude to some massive crash'n'burn and rebirth but even if it is, it's become an embarassment to even monitor his implosion. Nails on blackboard.
And it's not just him. The entire charade of popular music as 'rebellion' or 'progressive force' has been shown to be bogus. It's all now just a part of the Consumer Lifestyle Project of Late Capitalism. Once you strip pop music of any potential for meaningful social change it just becomes noise pollution.
I've enjoyed working towards this conclusion using "Morrissey" as Exhibit A. I guess he deserves credit for pushing the whole preposterous nonsense to some sort of beserk crescendo, but I have better things to do with my remaining years than listen to him. I think it's rather sad that he doesn't also have anything better to do than troll himself and his increasingly confused audience with this masochistic self-ridicule.
Goodbye
best
BB
So what's come to what?
Cheer up chuckle-chops! It's only Monday
Hey Broomstickcowboy, lighten up. You worry too much about Morrissey's career and your own version of the truth. The truth is illusive and out there and it's never quite what you think it is. It's ridiculous to think what you've been preaching about amounts to anything more than a hill of beans.
Like the late Frank Booth used to say...."Let's Rock!"