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posted by
davidt
on Monday August 27 2001, @09:00AM
chelsea smiler writes:
Under the title "Smiths Crips" (a pun on a british brand of crisps) there's an article in the September issue of style magazine Dazed & Confused #81 which looks at groups of Latino Smiths and Morrissey fans. Based around interviews and photos of various members of LA "social clubs" it suggests that these fans are turning to Morrissey in a reaction against hip-hop and MTV. The text, by Jessica Hundley, has something of an incredulous tone as if to say "who would have believed that anyone still liked Morrissey, not least someone who isn't a pale sickly creature who has been locked in a bedsit in Whalley Range since '85." The tired old 'racist' comments are paraded as well although Hundley seems unaware of her own superior and culturally patronising tone - "For them [ie the Latino Fans], Morrissey is not only music, but also fashion and feelings and life and they have constructed an isolated reality, which consists of some very forgiving interpretations". This lazy journalistic smirking spoils what could have been an interesting article - there's a preview of the piece at http://www.confused.co.uk where apparently you can also win a copy of The Very Best of The Smiths.
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"Smiths Crips" - article on Latino fans in "Dazed & Confused" (Sept.)
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