He is competitive, sure
He wants his art to go far and wide, which is fair.
Any artist wants as bigger an audience as possible but there's always been a limit to what he would do for it. He wants it on his terms.
That was the difference between him and lots of others. He could have had a huge audience if he kept his mouth shut and played the game, but he knows there is no point in a prize if what you give away is worth more than the prize
That has been part of the appeal, he is himself. A prophet thats true. Its simply handy if it makes a profit too.
There is a conflict. My friend says "The trouble with M, is he wants David Bowie fame while holding onto a Mark E Smith spirit. "
So, again I agree in part he has always wanted to be successful and as huge as a planet The motivation behind all artists is connection on a mass level, or you may as well just sing to your mum and watch Emmerdale
M has never been too slaggy about it. We know he could have made huge sums for touring with Marr. He walked.
M likes money sure, but its not his prime motive, he likes fame but its not for fame sake.
M is a river deep, and deep down you know it. He knows his nephew is a dick head, but he's family so he stands by him, mainly for his mum. Thats what he should do. He stands by family and friends. Thats what you should do .
He makes music with people who he feels he can be around. He isn't aiming to play with every ace face on the scene. Its frustrating, at times, as a fan, as you know he could have made much much better songs at times but thats just the way it goes. If honest Im just the same, i can only be with certain types of people. There has to be a certain connection
Lastly, I don't care about the size of his audience as its not MY audience.
If it was mine, I may care...Bruce Lee may like a "one-inch punch " but of some of us honey, like a bit more
I hope you are able to attend some shows this year.
Despite how it might appear, I support Morrissey's right to free speech, I just don't believe there's any consistency or integrity within his spouted beliefs.
Politics is complex and especially some of the issues he weaponises for publicity, such as animal liberation and human immigration.
He makes absurd, ill-informed remarks that strongly suggest he is a very nasty bigot then has a hissy fit because people like me simply will not stand for it.
He claims to be a rebel Outsider artist but the leaked Boz email about Bataclan revealed him as a deeply shallow careerist clown.
He has already destroyed his reputation as a 'pop intellectual ' by revealing himself to be as thick as pigshit. He's done it many, many times. It's who and what he is. All the signs point to 'Bonfire Of Teenagers' being a crass attempt to hijack the tragedy of the terrorist attack on Manchester Arena for publicity purposes. Given his comments after Anders Breivik slaughtered teenage socialists in Oslo, Morrissey has absolutely zero ethical standing to make any further such commentary. Just sing about daffodils, mate. We still enjoy your Smiths Karaoke show but not as much as the one by Rick Astley & The Blossoms.
In an early interview 'Morrissey' said he'd put Steven in a suitcase on top of the wardrobe at the outset because he'd FcUK it up. He accepted from the outset that 'Morrissey' was an artificial construct then tried to pivot to 'sincerity' once it became expedient to do so to lure more troubled souls to his circus.
But Steven escaped from that suitcase and what we see now is the revenge of That Bitch...those in the know, know...enjoy the shows.
You are wrong. Morrissey doesn't even agree with you. Or himself. That's why he is such a basket case.
It's just greed and an addiction to C List dopamine rush levels of intermittent success that funds a standard international luxury travel lifestyle but I haven't come across him on Necker yet.
Nearly all of the subversive artists he ghoulishly collects as references never had the mass success you claim is the only valid reason for stepping on stage-screen-page.
Are/were their efforts pointless? Of course not. Bowie achieved greater success than Mott The Hoople but that doesn't mean the latter shouldn't have shared their art with a smaller audience. Sparks. New York Dolls. Jobriath. The list is long.
There's nothing preventing Morrissey from continuing to entertain you and the rest of his core audience but trolling tragedy and claiming there's a conspiracy to thwart him cannot be tolerated without a firm rebuttal.
He claims one of his favourite album is 'Grace' by Jeff Buckley. So does Adele. You'd never know it from listening to her latest insipid drivel.
Hopefully the new album by Morrissey isn't a car crash but if it is, so what? Nobody is forced to listen to it, to attend the shows or comment here. They do so to pass time. That's all for most of his audience. But not for 'Morrissey' who made a very basic-bitch deal with mediocre demons via his Woolworth's Ouija Board and openly stated he sought 'global, religious Fame'. He didn't get it and currently faces global ridicule for his gobbledegook views and crude trolling.
Morrissey, you are just another money-grabbing schemer who got lucky but...your case file is interesting to me because the fictional character you created at the outset of The Smiths was the blueprint of the person Fate wanted you to be.
Sadly, despite early feedback from certain critics to reign in the Bitch Script, once you hit turbulence, Steven escaped from the suitcase mid flight and destroyed the life you tried to co-create with the other members of The Smiths Family Radical arts collective.
Take responsibility for your ludicrous outbursts. FcUKin man-up. The Rolling Stones play Anfield but you couldn't sell out The centre court at Wimbledon with your daft McEnroe tantrum antics.
I recently saw two shows by Lorde. Bowie called her 'the future of music' and he was right but she refused Fame on a Taylor Swift level because it was harming her and stopping her attracting the Audience she craves, one that accepts she is going to detour and won't just churn out bangers for Big Music. Kate Bush is another example that disproves your theory. Kraftwerk turned down an album collaboration with Michael Jackson to avoid megafame.
Morrissey isn't as brilliant as he or his core customers insist he is. There's no conspiracy to thwart him. We're just bored of his bollocks commentary on topics he doesn't understand.
As well as successful artists who have niche audiences deliberately, there are people in Morrissey's audience who are far more talented than he is but had other options in life or made them happen to avoid becoming a sad face time attention bore clamouring for a record contract in their 60s. It's undignified. It's ridiculous.
Enjoy the shows if he goes to your area.
BB
'The Path' by Lorde
www.morrisseycentral.com
and Ireland 
...but the Offical Morrissey Pravda propaganda portal doesn't as far as i can see...dearie me, Steven! 
