i think the Pitchfork review sums this single up pretty well . I really don't like Joe Chicarelli's production style at all and it really doesn't suit Morrissey , I thought so on the last album as well . Jerry Finn and Tony Visconti were way more suited . all those squelching noises etc are such a turn off
Pitchfork review
“Spent the Day in Bed”
There’s a good idea for a
Morrissey song somewhere in “Spent the Day in Bed.” Its title, which he has somehow not used yet, leads to a few cozy, breezy quotables: “In sheets for which I paid,” he sings, “I am now laid.” But the music surrounding him is lumbering and tasteless. There’s an electronic symphony of squelching synths—the type of pseudo-futuristic sound his peers were exploring in the 1990s, while Moz was cranking up the guitars and doubling his track lengths on
Southpaw Grammar. “Time, do as I wish,” he commands, before a low-end wobble that sounds like a turntable scratch enters the mix. Time, sadly, does not abide.
The song’s message about finding small comforts in your day-to-day life while you still can, however, does feel somewhat novel. Ignoring Morrissey’s tone-deaf pleas for tuning out the news, his gestures toward positivity feel like a stab at maturity from the 58-year-old artist who has historically preached hopelessness, solitude, and vegetarianism above basic self-preservation. At one point, he even gives a rare shout-out to all his friends, offering advice so that they might, one day, be as content as Morrissey has apparently become. A good way we can all start is by listening to a better Morrissey song.
as of today.
