Morrissey Central "BMG DUMP MORRISSEY" (November 16, 2020)

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BMG Records have dropped Morrissey. Following the March 2020 release of I AM NOT A DOG ON A CHAIN
(#1 Scotland, #1 Poland, #3 Britain, #3 France, #10 Spain, #13 Germany, #2, #9, #17, #18 U.S.A. - depending
on which official chart you follow), BMG have appointed a new Executive who does not want another Morrissey
album. Instead, the new BMG Executive has announced new plans for 'diversity' within BMG's artist roster, and
all projected BMG Morrissey releases/reissues have been scrapped.

"This news is perfectly in keeping with the relentless galvanic horror of 2020," said Morrissey, "we would be critically insane to expect anything positive."

Morrissey is once again in search of a new label willing to release his music.

"My three albums with BMG have been the best of my career, and I stand by them till death. Recording them has been a pivotal period in my life, and I thank the previous BMG team and everyone involved for that. It's still important to me to do music my own way, and I wouldn't want to be on a label that dictates so specifically how their artists should behave - especially when the word 'talent' is notably never mentioned."

Morrissey's duet with David Bowie is now available on Parlophone via Warner.

"There are too many cases of successful artists languishing at labels who are no longer interested in them." Alistair Norbury, BMG.

Morrissey's Las Vegas residency remains in place for 2021.

above quotes collected by V.Pearson for M.Central.
full interview will be printed shortly.


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This news is frankly outrageous. Morrissey has just delivered a hit album to them and they drop him for obscure reasons. He is a high profile artist with a large canon of work and a devoted fan base. I presume this new ‘executive’ is some 20-something beardy middle-class person whose idea of diversity is to reduce the proportion of good acts in favour of poor quality ones.
The hit record dropped out of the top 100 within 3 days and didn't chart at all in the US, so it looks like the devoted fan base didn't buy it for some reason, which is a shame as it was his best work for along time in my opinion.
 
This news is frankly outrageous. Morrissey has just delivered a hit album to them and they drop him for obscure reasons. He is a high profile artist with a large canon of work and a devoted fan base. I presume this new ‘executive’ is some 20-something beardy middle-class person whose idea of diversity is to reduce the proportion of good acts in favour of poor quality ones.
Superb comment. Always nice to read one on here👍👍👍
 
This news is frankly outrageous. Morrissey has just delivered a hit album to them and they drop him for obscure reasons. He is a high profile artist with a large canon of work and a devoted fan base. I presume this new ‘executive’ is some 20-something beardy middle-class person whose idea of diversity is to reduce the proportion of good acts in favour of poor quality ones.
It wasn't a hit album, it sold very poorly. BMG are very keenly anti-racism these days so there was absolutely no way they were going to keep Morrissey on once his contract was fulfilled. Is that so difficult to understand? Seems really straightforward to me.
 
The hit record dropped out of the top 100 within 3 days and didn't chart at all in the US, so it looks like the devoted fan base didn't buy it for some reason, which is a shame as it was his best work for along time in my opinion.
And more than that, I got the impression that many fans bought multiple copies of all the different versions, so the number of copies sold may well be many times larger than the number of people who bought it.
 
It wasn't a hit album, it sold very poorly. BMG are very keenly anti-racism these days so there was absolutely no way they were going to keep Morrissey on once his contract was fulfilled. Is that so difficult to understand? Seems really straightforward to me.
Bizarre comment. Morrissey has provided the chart statistics in his statement. The album was number 3 in the UK and higher in Poland. A hit. Moreover Morrissey may have some thought-provoking and controversial views however ‘racism’ is a tad unfounded.
 
Finding a new decent record company is going to be difficult ( as he has changed regularly since Your Arsenal) . So Moz needs :

new songwriter
new band
new manager
new PR
new ideas
new way of life
new dress code
...
 
Bizarre comment. Morrissey has provided the chart statistics in his statement. The album was number 3 in the UK and higher in Poland. A hit. Moreover Morrissey may have some thought-provoking and controversial views however ‘racism’ is a tad unfounded.
Not in the world @Radis Noir & his cronies live in mate, trust me. If a black man stabbed you, stomped on your head, raped your wife & burnt you alive, for you to even say so would be ‘racist’. It’d be your fault for suppressing him with your White privilege.

And no, before the haters pile in, I’m not saying that’s what I think an average Black man would do.
 
Bizarre comment. Morrissey has provided the chart statistics in his statement. The album was number 3 in the UK and higher in Poland. A hit. Moreover Morrissey may have some thought-provoking and controversial views however ‘racism’ is a tad unfounded.
Yes, it was #3 in the UK charts for three days then disappeared from the charts never to be seen again. It sold poorly, there's no escaping that fact.
And whether or not Morrissey is racist is almost irrelevant. There is a view held by many people that Morrissey is a racist. You can't deny the fact that many people feel he is now beyond the pale.
 
Yes, it was #3 in the UK charts for three days then disappeared from the charts never to be seen again. It sold poorly, there's no escaping that fact.
And whether or not Morrissey is racist is almost irrelevant. There is a view held by many people that Morrissey is a racist. You can't deny the fact that many people feel he is now beyond the pale.
This is a weak argument. Many people have always disliked Morrissey and the Smiths. Back in the day they said he was ‘miserable’ and depressing etc. Now it is something else. The point is that a Morrissey album has a guaranteed market and number 3 is a high chart placing. To drop him makes no sense.
 
Bizarre comment. Morrissey has provided the chart statistics in his statement. The album was number 3 in the UK and higher in Poland. A hit. Moreover Morrissey may have some thought-provoking and controversial views however ‘racism’ is a tad unfounded.

Yes it was number 3 on Friday and had dropped out of the charts by Monday after selling circa 7k copies. He doesn't have a guaranteed market and that's probably part of the reason they parted company.

From Music Week:

After a three year absence, Morrissey returns to the albums chart with his 13th studio offering. I Am Not A Dog On A Chain is the follow-up to 2017’s Low In High School and slides neatly into place at No.3 with 6,720 sales. It is his 15th solo Top 10 album in all and his first to reach the Top 3 since World Peace Is None Of Your Business reached No.2 in 2014.
 
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This is a weak argument. Many people have always disliked Morrissey and the Smiths. Back in the day they said he was ‘miserable’ and depressing etc. Now it is something else. The point is that a Morrissey album has a guaranteed market and number 3 is a high chart placing. To drop him makes no sense.
That's true but only in the last few years has the racism tag stuck. Are you denying that a lot of people think Morrissey is racist? Really?
 
Yes, it was #3 in the UK charts for three days then disappeared from the charts never to be seen again. It sold poorly, there's no escaping that fact.
And whether or not Morrissey is racist is almost irrelevant. There is a view held by many people that Morrissey is a racist. You can't deny the fact that many people feel he is now beyond the pale.
So the truth is irrelevant? It’s just what people think that matters?

So if some people think Sir Cliff is guilty of what he was accused of, the fact that it was all total bollocks is irrelevant?

Or all those people that ‘Nick’ bloke accused a few years back? Backed to the hilt by Tom Watson no less. All total bullshit in the end.

But if people believe it, well the truth is irrelevant?
 
he is also most likely on the autistic spectrum which is never talked about cause it is still a taboo but explains all of his hyperfixations like charts, meat industry and also troubles to understand others points of view and difficulties playing by rules that don't make sense to him
One persons hyperfixation is another one's passion. A lot of artists are fixated on the charts, it's their business. The meat industry and the treatment of animals in general is something a lot of people are passionate about, not just Morrissey.
Trouble understanding others point of view is universal especially in this time we are living in. Not playing by rules is his strongest point and any body who has difficulty playing by rules that don't make sense to them is sane. I don't see how any of that puts him on the autistic spectrum. The fact that he has a solid circle of long-term friends and that he is sensitive to animals would say the opposite to me.
 
That's true but only in the last few years has the racism tag stuck. Are you denying that a lot of people think Morrissey is racist? Really?
It has only stuck during the rise of...well, I don’t need to say it all again, it’s on my signature.

I bet if you asked most people in the street, do you think Morrissey is racist, they either a) wouldn’t have a clue who he was or b) not know what you were talking about. He isn’t really headline news anymore.
 
So the truth is irrelevant? It’s just what people think that matters?

So if some people think Sir Cliff is guilty of what he was accused of, the fact that it was all total bollocks is irrelevant?

Or all those people that ‘Nick’ bloke accused a few years back? Backed to the hilt by Tom Watson no less. All total bullshit in the end.

But if people believe it, well the truth is irrelevant?
We can argue about whether or not he's a racist but that's irrelevant to this case. People believe Morrissey is racist and can produce evidence to back it up, therefore it is entirely understandable that a company that is vocally anti-racism would want to end its relationship with him.
 

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