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true facts about morrissey:

- he is a baby - he love 2 scream

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he crie during sex

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hes a 50 year old Virgin

#I agree

true facts about morrissey:

- he is a baby - he love 2 scream

#morrissey

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emossey

*Morrissey saves this picture in the "HateQueenSoz" folder on his 14 years old laptop and uses it as a background picture for when he sings the queen is dead*

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Why I love Morrissey

I think admiring me, shall we say, is quite a task. Because if you say you like Morrissey, then you have to explain why. — Morrissey, Details, 1992

Quite. I’m sure like me you all come up against someone who just doesn’t get Morrissey. Chances are one of the main problems they have with him is that his music is just soooo depressing. Maybe you are friends with one of these philistines? Maybe they are even in your family? If so, I feel your pain. Perhaps you have tried to reason with them, tried to make them see sense. You might have gathered them round in the sitting room to listen to the playlist you made. You might have even dragged them kicking and screaming to a Morrissey concert. To those of you who have tried, and to those of you who have been successful in converting former unbelievers to the cause, I salute you. So because I am unemployed and therefore have too much time on my hands: here are some of the reasons I love Morrissey. Maybe some of you will be able to relate.

His music

Or to be more specific, his lyrics. Despite the tabloid consensus Morrissey’s songs are not all depressing. Some of them are quite sad, some of them are depressing, but that’s because some of his songs are…wait for it….about depression. But far from all of them. As the Beautiful and intelligent Brontë explains. Morrissey’s discography is a vast, varied and beautiful thing. From The Smiths to his solo work, you are guaranteed to find a song that fits your every emotion. His lyrics provide fans with solace in dark and difficult times. Russell Brand puts it quite perfectly. Morrissey is also a very humorous lyricist. A rather overlooked fact.

His voice

Linked to the above paragraph but worthy of its own, I think. In the early days of The Smiths Morrissey’s vocal range was limited to baritone and a somewhat strained falsetto. But he quickly improved. (Though the vulnerability in Morrissey’s voice at the beginning of The Smiths is actually something I find very beautiful and endearing). His improvement is illustrated perfectly by the masterpiece I Know It’s Over. In a 1992 interview with Record Mirror Johnny Marr described hearing Morrissey sing the song for the first time as “one of the highlights of my life.”

Morrissey’s vocal on ‘I Know It’s Over’ - I’ll never forget when he did that. It’s one of the highlights of my life. It was that good, that strong. Every line he was hinting at where he was going to go. I was thinking, ‘Is he going to go there? Yes, he is!’ It was just brilliant.

Today his voice is even stronger, more mature, and even more capable.

His tireless defense of animal rights

This point has gotten him into quite a bit of trouble over the years due to his unfortunate penchant to phrase things badly and somewhat aggressively, but when you strip away all that and you really listen to what he’s saying you can’t really help admire him. Because despite the dressing, the controversy, the bad phrasing, his message is clear and important: Stop. hurting. animals. This is surely a message we can all get behind?

He’s very attractive

Granted this one is subjective but I’m the one making the list and I think he’s beautiful. Of course I wouldn’t love him any less if he wasn’t attractive, but it’s a bonus. Morrissey’s face, Morrissey’s face. His incredibly blue eyes, his cupid bow lips, his cute dimpled nose, his adorable smile, his gravity defying quiff, his… eyebrows. *Swoons*. Back in the 80’s he was a pale, skinny, often bespectacled fairy princess. But then the death knell tolled for The Smiths and he cast his gladioli, charity shop blouses, and over-sized blazers to the ground, and slipped into a hell of a lot of double denim and gold lame. He cultivated his sideburns to perfection, and he suddenly became really quite ripped. Today Morrissey is a handsome, distinguished gentleman with beautiful grey hair, and broad shoulders. Thankfully he still rocks a shiny shirt which he frequently rips of on stage to reveal his strong, masculine torso. Praise the Lord.

He’s true to himself

Yes he hasn’t done a butter ad like John Lydon or promoted life insurance like Iggy Pop but even more important than that is the fact that no matter what is thrown his way - and a lot of shit is thrown - he remains Morrissey. It often seems that no musician is attacked quite as much by the press as Morrissey is. But despite massive discouragement and vilification he marches on defiant, unperturbed, unchanged, his small but still glorious quiff blowing in the wind. Despite being labeled miserable by the boring and unimaginative tabloid press he writes a song 24 years into his career entitled Life Is A Pigsty. And despite the attacks and the eye-rolls he has stayed true to his convictions. Again, Brontë puts it better than I can.

His relationship with Johnny Marr

Marrissey, ah Marrissey. Hallowed be thy name. There is a reason so many fans ship them. The reason is a simple and undeniable truth: they loved each other. We hope they still do. But no matter what differences they have now, no matter what they might say or not say, the connection they have will never go away. Ever. Here is a collection of quotes from Morrissey and Johnny declaring their love and admiration for each other. Here is a set of pictures of the two lovebirds embracing each other and suggestively touching a statuette of St David. And here is Johnny Marr talking about Morrissey in a 1987 radio interview. Keep the Kleenex close by because you will cry.

We all live in hope that one day they will put their differences aside and rent a beautiful cottage in Cornwall together where there will live happily ever after amen.

He’s really funny

Johnny Marr has spoken about Morrissey’s sense of humour a few times, from what I can recall he says that Morrissey’s sense of humour is what he misses most about him in two interviews. Noel Gallagher has described Morrissey as the funniest man he’s ever met, and Russell Brand has also spoken about how funny he is. Examples of Morrissey’s sense of humour can be found in his autobiography, in most interviews, and in his songs.

He hates the British monarchy and hereditary privilege

In case you didn’t know, Morrissey really hates the British Royal Family. In a 1985 interview with Simon Garfield for Time Out, he said that he had always “despised royalty”, saying,

I think it’s fascist and very, very cruel. To me there’s something dramatically ugly about a person who can wear a dress for £6,000 when at the same time there are people who can’t afford to eat. When she puts on that dress for £6,000 the statement she is making to the nation is: “I am the fantastically gifted royalty, and you are the snivelling peasants.” The very idea that people would be interested in the facts about this dress is massively insulting to the human race.

Also In 1985 he wrote a song called Nowhere fast which contains these lyrics:

I’d like to drop my trousers to the Queen every sensible child will know what this means the poor and the needy are selfish and greedy on her terms

Additionally, In 1986 he named an album and song The Queen Is Dead. Today he tours with a photoshopped image of Queen Liz sticking her middle fingers up and one of William and Kate with the slogan “United King-Dumb”, and has criticised the royal family many, many more times over the years.

He hates Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron, and The Conservative Party.

I don’t know if you’ve heard but Morrissey really reeeally hates Thatcher. And he’s not keen on David Cameron and the rest of the Tories either. In 1988 he released a song on Viva Hate called Margaret On The Guillotine (Small fact: The Queen Is Dead was almost called Margaret on The Guillotine) in which he beautifully expresses his desire to see Thatcher’s head chopped off.

The kind people Have a wonderful dream Margaret on the guillotine Cause people like you Make me feel so tired When will you die?

Sadly for the kind people the dream came too late, and not in the way they would have liked.

Additionally, when Thatcher died Morrissey issued two statements. One in which he accuses the British tabloid press of being “biased and full of intolerant menace,” and also criticizes David Cameron. And in the other he states that “Thatcher was not a strong or formidable leader. She simply did not give a shit about people.”

In his 1989 single Interesting Drug, he sings “there are bad people on the rise who are “saving their own skins by Ruining people’s lives”. In the music video someone writes “Some bad people on the right” on the wall, making it quite obvious that the song is about the Conservative government.

Furthermore, in 2010 he backed up Johnny Marr after he made a tweet forbidding Cameron from liking The Smiths.

He’s bookish

As you all know, Morrissey is a nerd. A substantial amount of his autobiography is him raving about his favourite authors and poets. Here is the utter dweeb discussing his favourite poets with a fan in 1992. God what a loser.

He hates heterosexism, toxic masculinity, and gender roles

On heterosexism:

Musically, personally, sexually I don’t want to be categorized because you [are] then accepting a certain fierce limitation to whatever it is you are. You are considered to be heterosexual and therefore you are not expected to do or think anything else. The whole point about sexuality, it seems to me, is to hold the world back. No investigation is permissable! Sexuality is never presented as a vast and variable world to luxuriate in, but only as something to be immediately shut down as soon as you reach 12 years old. Morrissey, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out: The Enduring Cult of Morrissey (Huffington Post, June 30, 2015)

Here is an interview from 2014 where he discusses gender. And here is a song from World Peace Is None Of Your Business that covers toxic masculinity.

Also

He speaks openly and honestly about his depression

In a society that likes to pretend that mental illness doesn’t exist Morrissey’s openness and honesty about his own battle with depression is refreshing and important. He has spoken about it many times over the years, and of course there are the songs, Asleep being the obvious one, and Something Is Squeezing My Skull, etc. The link to the full list of Morrissey songs about depression is in the music paragraph.

His unabashed and undying love for the New York Dolls, James Dean, and Oscar Wilde.

Morrissey has many heroes but these are his holy trinity. I think everyone knows he’s obsessed with the dolls, James Dean and Oscar Wilde so I won’t go on about them , pictures of Morrissey being a total fanboy abound, but I will share this quote,

As I get older, the adoration increases. I’m never without him. It’s almost biblical. It’s like carrying your rosary around with you.

Morrissey’s admiration for these three icons is endearing because the way he talks about them is exactly how many Morrissey fans talk about Morrissey.

He is confused by basic anatomy

Morrissey, bless his heart, is very intelligent but somehow can’t tell the difference between a stomach and a crotch. I am referring of course to the part in his autobiography where he recounts a discussion he had with his then manager over this image. “I am photographed for Creem magazine with my head resting on Jake’s exposed belly.” Um you sure about that Moz?

He is showing footage of police brutality in the US at every concert in his US tour

To accompany the song Ganglord Morrissey has been showing video footage of police brutality. It’s very powerful, and has succeeded in making people think. A quite rare thing to happen in a pop/rock gig.

His queer as fuck lyrics

As a gay guy Morrissey’s queer lyrics mean a lot to me. While it is true that most of Morrissey’s lyrics are genderless because of his desire not to leave anybody out, This Charming Man is an obvious exception.

I think that ‘This Charming Man’ was the most revolutionary single in popular music in that area—I’m quite convinced of it, because it was all just completely natural, about male relationships; it was nice and natural, but it wasn’t banal. — Morrissey, Square Peg, 1984.

Even his lyrics that are not explicitly queer resound heavily with me as a gay man, lyrics like “I am human and I need to be loved just like anybody else does” meant a lot to me growing up, and still does.

Also don’t even try telling me the “who will swallow whom” line in Handsome Devil isn’t gay. It’s so gay.

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i wonder if morrissey still dances with flowers on his favourite songs like he did in the smiths era

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film fact of the day

The Smiths aren’t a real band. Zooey Deschanel was supposed to say “I love Radiohead” during the elevator scene of 500 Days of Summer, but she forgot her line and improvised the name “The Smiths”. the music heard in the movie by this make-believe band was provided by Pavement.

feralninjaprincess

Wrong.

The Smiths are an 80s post punk/alternative band fronted by Morrisey. You might have heard of a little tune called How Soon is Now. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smiths

http://youtu.be/hnpILIIo9ek

You’re welcome.

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Got served.

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thanks fellas

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Initially the film’s producers put up a small Wikipedia article to give the impression that the smiths had existed but after the movie became a hit fans began filling in the backstory. Everything you know about the smiths and this Morrissey character is an elaborate patchwork of fanfiction, which is why Morrissey appears to contradict himself so often

youthfullyfruitful

Morrissey is not a person.

#thats right

morrissey: I wanna go home, I don't wanna stay.....allallalla lay yeee a la la laalla la layeeew hm a la la la la hm la la al lallallala laa ywee lallaa la ywee hm alalal hm allalal donnnn lalala laaa laeyeyy allayeyeyy.....

me: same

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