he is just old and mean
well said aub,i would rather have eccentric M than M with two wings stuck to his back,hes weird,nothing wrong with that.I'd rather him old and mean, than old and chipper and putting on gimmicky shows with a full orchestra like glad-handing Johnny Marr. He is certainly a recluse, and some say a drunkard, and does spend the occasional evening going down right-wing/AI covers/amateur Smiths & Morrissey covers rabbit holes on YouTube, but I prefer that kind of eccentricity to being blandly successful.
I'd rather him old and mean, than old and chipper and putting on gimmicky shows with a full orchestra like glad-handing Johnny Marr. He is certainly a recluse, and some say a drunkard, and does spend the occasional evening going down right-wing/AI covers/amateur Smiths & Morrissey covers rabbit holes on YouTube, but I prefer that kind of eccentricity to being blandly successful.
Quite precisely this.It's boring and it's frustrating to watch him conduct himself the way he does. There was a pic of Carmen and Jesse from one of the recent shows and it was just so cheesy and I wondered how we got from The Smiths to this. How did he let this happen?
I am not one of those people who claimed he saved my life, I don't have some sort of deep and abiding love for him, because it's just really silly to feel that way about a stranger. The Smiths are one of my favorite bands and probably always will be, I also really enjoy M's early solo work but my opinion of him has changed a lot; he is no longer witty and clever, he is just old and mean and his talent seems to have disappeared.
Gimmicky? Are you saying you wouldn’t like to hear Morrissey singing with a full orchestra? He could never pull that off, he doesn’t have the discipline or work ethic to do something like that.
Gimmicky? Are you saying you wouldn’t like to hear Morrissey singing with a full orchestra?
He could never pull that off, he doesn’t have the discipline or work ethic to do something like that.
I was bored
Geez, can we stop always compairing Johnny and Morrissey? It's so tiring. Morrissey is Morrissey and has his approach to different things and Marr has his own. To me they are two totally different people that went different routes in their career. They might be eternally connected through the Smiths (beautifully and rightly so) but they are doing their own things for a long time now and exist without each other.
For me, I'm totally not bored, because Morrissey's choices are quite entertaining. It's like following a series, you never know what happens next, but kinda have an inkling about it and sometimes be totally surprised by the plottwists!