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It's hard work being a Morrissey fan. It's not just the social stigma, or being expected to defend indefensibly stupid comments, but that every time he seems to have regained his old relevance he then releases something as shoddy and tossed-off as "That's How People Grow Up". "Ringleader Of The Tormentors", from 2005, was his best album in a decade because of its sonic variety and intriguing hints at a new emotional/sexual lease of life.
But this is the same old meat and two veg, mid-tempo rockarama with a tedious drone of self-pity about how he still hasn't got a boyfriend. It's like being trapped in an endless series of conversations with a drunk, worn out divorcee, although at least they wouldn't say anything as cringingly bad as "I was driving my car. I crashed and broke my spine / So yes there are worse things in life than never being somebody's sweetie." Perhaps he needs another long break.
by Jaime Gill
Harsh but fair?
It's hard work being a Morrissey fan. It's not just the social stigma, or being expected to defend indefensibly stupid comments, but that every time he seems to have regained his old relevance he then releases something as shoddy and tossed-off as "That's How People Grow Up". "Ringleader Of The Tormentors", from 2005, was his best album in a decade because of its sonic variety and intriguing hints at a new emotional/sexual lease of life.
But this is the same old meat and two veg, mid-tempo rockarama with a tedious drone of self-pity about how he still hasn't got a boyfriend. It's like being trapped in an endless series of conversations with a drunk, worn out divorcee, although at least they wouldn't say anything as cringingly bad as "I was driving my car. I crashed and broke my spine / So yes there are worse things in life than never being somebody's sweetie." Perhaps he needs another long break.
by Jaime Gill
Harsh but fair?