Hilarious new Morrissey interview contains all the classics

He is so unhinged.

Is anybody ever described as so hinged?

Geez. Does he want to alienate his SoCal Latino fanbase or what.

He's right about everything.

Does that guy like anyone?

Hrs right about the halal thing.

r5 He likes Nigel Farage, the woman who runs Britain First, his boyfriend Damon, and his mum.

. . .

He needs to be found giving a bj to a brown person while chowing down on some flank steak.

Moz has AIDS. He's angry there is no cure so he is lashing out at everyone.

Morrissey's veganism is also contributing to his mental decline into dementia.

Well it's seems like Misery is past unhinged, but he is still around so his sychopantic fans must be ok with it.

Some of the vilest people I have ever met were Vegans, it must be the lack of meat.

Sounds totally rational to me. His views are becoming more counter culture while the left is becoming more prurient. His views shouldn't be shocking to anyone who have noticed this seismic shift or is capable of thinking for themselves. Blind allegiance to one political party does not make one more enlightened. He very calmly articulates his point of view and is unwilling to be subsumed by groupthink. Good for him.

Nobody is talking about blind allegiance to one political party, you dope. And many of the things he said in the interview are demonstrably false, just the repetition of propaganda and lies the rightwing media in the US and UK spout to keep people angry and scared.

He could have asked me.

And now, and antidote to Morrissey...

R14 What did he say that was so outrageous? He's not attacking muslims but attacking violent crimes committed in the name of Islam. Also, saying that the majority of terrorist crimes are committed by muslims is not the same thing as attacking all muslims or painting them with the same brush. People act as if he's calling for a master race or something when he doesn't suggest anything of the sort. He also believes that religion endorses cruelty to animals, which is also true, and not surprising to anyone who have known about his animal rights beliefs. Lastly, he mentions the racist bit because he himself has been called racist for stating his views, which are based on logic.

r14 I don't know if you are a Russian troll or just a troll, but you are a racist piece of shit, just like Morrissey.

"Aren't brown people awful" is based on logic?

I will literally pay people to go throw meat on him at his upcoming shows

He's a fucking immigrant. He has lived in LA for ages. He does not live in London anymore. Also his parents were immigrants from Ireland to the UK. Nothing worse than a self loathing queen

One of those awful spooky singers people become obsessed with - like Bowie.

I've never been into all that.

Hate it, actually, and the people who worship them.

Just looked at the film they made about him in 2003, comments like "Morrissey's a legend, an absolute legend..." aargh!

Will he do a cover of Halaluja?

r24 So much leather in that film. He has leather furniture, leather upholstery in his car, leather shoes. He doesn't mind killing animals to adorn himself. I remember him slagging Bowie off in that film, saying that he hasn't done anything interesting since the 70s. Morrissey was about to make his comeback then so he was in a stronger position than Bowie, but 15 years later Bowie came back with two of his strongest and most interesting albums ever, while Morrissey quickly descended into bland lyrics, mediocre music and embarrassing pronouncements.

Hitler was also a vegetarian.

[quote]this seismic shift

And yet Morrissey himself has been saying the same shit forever, so

"Reggae is vile."

"The Chinese are a subspecies."

"I don't think that white and black people will ever really get on and like each other."

"If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent."

Yeah, he's always been a cunt. He's just being more open about the racist and hateful parts of it.

It read as contrarian and charming when he was much younger.

This from a man who can't even be honest about his own sexuality.

He enjoys being gang banged by skinheads

"I don't hate Pakistanis, but I dislike them immensely."

R35 Exactly where is he saying these things? Could you provide a link?

r36 They're all infamous quotes by Morrissey going back to the 80s. The "reggae is vile" quote was from a 1986 Melody Maker interview:

[quote]"Reggae...is to me the most racist music in the entire world. It's an absolute total glorification of black supremacy." He went on, "Ultimately, I don't have very cast iron opinions on black music other than black modern music which I detest. I detest Stevie Wonder. I think Diana Ross is awful... I think they're all vile in the extreme. In essence this music doesn't say anything." The interviewer responded, "You seem to be saying that you believe that there is some sort of black pop conspiracy being organized to keep white indie groups down." What was Morrissey's response? "Yes, I really do."

God, he's think, isn't he?

He took a pop at Diana Ross?? He deserves all the shit he's getting but you just know journalists must be falling over themselves to interview him. It's like with Germaine Greer, they don't bother discussing her scholarship or contribution to academic knowledge anymore - instead it's all let's get a stupid quote about not being a Cocker Spaniel and watch those clicks pile up! Forget Morrissey's musical career, let's ask something about brown people! It's sad that this is now the only way he manages to remain in the papers and he walks straight into it every single time.

And when he's inevitably called out on these dumb, inflammatory statements (which he's been making for DECADES at this point), he always just falls back on his stance as a put-upon victim, deliberately misunderstood and misquoted by the evil press, yadda yadda. And then wonders why everyone in his life ends up "betraying" him (a constant complaint throughout his autobiography) while he's left miserable and alone. When it's painfully obvious that he must be impossible for any sane person to deal with for any extended period of time.

Compare Morrissey's comments about detesting black music in 1986 to David Bowie's interview below in 1983 on MTV where he berates the channel for not playing black artists:

A funny article by a guy who was hired to be Morrissey's valet on tour and was fired on his first day. Was it his clothing or hair? Was it that he didn't stick around for the next round of drinking games? Because word got back that the first record he bought was [italic]Rocket Man[/italic]? No one knows.

[quote]“Be careful, Andrew,” someone warns me. “Moz hates people who are boring . . . but then, he also hates people being too pushy around him. Establishing common ground quickly is important.”

[quote] "Reggae...is to me the most racist music in the entire world..."

I don't know about racist, but as a genre it is often extremely misogynist and homophobic.

It should be called out for what it is.

R37 Let me ask you again: Exactly where is he saying these things? Could you provide a link?

r44 Have you not heard of google, my love? :(

Dear: I've googled. The quotes (as far as I can see) do not show up in any direct links to what should be their original source.

[quote]He's right about everything.

"For the same period (2002-16), 'White Europeans' comprised 32% of suspects, and African Caribbeans 38% of suspects. About one in five suspects remain unknown – either because they can’t be identified, or because the victim has refused to identify them.

'“The figures do suggest a lower number of Asian offenders,” said Dr Tara Young, a Criminal Justice and Criminology lecturer at the University of Kent.'"

It's worth pointing out that the NME issued an apology 5 years after the interview in which he said that immigration was ruining the country and you literally never hear the British accent anymore in Knightsbridge. Morrissey was trying to sue them for depicting him as a total racist by craftily printing exactly what he said.

[quote]immigration was ruining the country and you literally never hear the British accent anymore in Knightsbridge.

Judging from recent voting in Europe, more and more Europeans are agreeing with him.

"For the same period (2002-16), 'White Europeans' comprised 32% of suspects, and African Caribbeans 38% of suspects. About one in five suspects remain unknown – either because they can’t be identified, or because the victim has refused to identify them."

So most of those identified are African Caribbeans. What percentage do they make up of the population?

r49 So nazi queen is right then?

R51 (By any chance are you the Brit troll obsessed by racism?)

Europeans, all through the continent, have had it with mass immigration...now that they understand the changes it brings to their societies. And governments (both right and left) have taken notice.

But continue to just flip them all off as "Nazis"

One of the main tactics used by Putin in European elections is spreading disinformation about immigration and trying to destabilize the EU by promoting anti-establishment candidates like Le Pen in France. It worked in the UK during the Brexit referendum, but it didn't work in France.

*sigh* Miss LePen garnered an incredible 34 percent of the vote. An in the meantime Macron has taken a similar stance on immigration (just ask the Italians) :

"The bill, which criminalises illegal border crossing, ..."

[quote]*sigh* Miss LePen garnered an incredible 34 percent of the vote.

"Miss Le Pen"!? LOL. Are you a fan? She did that well because so much of the electorate abstained. Faced with a choice between a right-wing banker and a far-right Nazi, many French voters stayed at home. Hardly evidence that the French people are rising up en masse to reject mass immigration.

[quote]Hardly evidence that the French people are rising up en masse to reject mass immigration.

No, you're very wrong about that. Macron's very tough immigration policy shows otherwise..

[quote]Hardly evidence that the French people are rising up en masse to reject mass immigration.

"Too many foreigners in France and Islam not compatible, majority of French say"

r56 The article you linked to says:

[quote]While campaigning to be president, the pro-business Macron won over the left with promises of a more humane asylum policy. He paid homage to Angela Merkel, saying she saved Europe’s “collective dignity” by opening Germany’s doors to refugees in 2015.

So the idea that the 21 million people (66%) who voted for Macron thought he'd take a tougher stance on immigration is patently false.

r57 And yet 66% of those who voted went for the candidate promising to take a more humane approach to immigration. And not the one whose main platform was to get rid of all the brown people.

Send them all home! Send them HO! HUH! HOO! hoooommmme!

Well, R58 something's happened since the election.

Look at recent polling in France. Look at Macron's very harsh immigration policy.

"And not the one whose main platform was to get rid of all the brown people."

Macron's simply not letting the brown people in.

......

[quote]Look at recent polling in France.

Recent polling!? They had an ELECTION last year. If the French people felt that strongly about immigration they would have voted for the Nazi broad promising to do something about it. Sadly for her, only 20% of the electorate seemed to care.

The French agree with Morrissey:

Apart from getting rid of brown people Marine Le Pen campaigned on an anti-gay marriage platform, so some of those who voted for her will have been doing so because they were homophobic shitbags, as opposed to racist shitbags.

[quote]President Emmanuel Macron seeks to address widespread anti-immigrant sentiment.

r64 And yet when they had to chance to vote to change things last year they overwhelmingly chose the candidate who promised to take a more humane approach to immigration. It doesn't matter how many polls or articles you find through google. The election speaks for itself.

Are you a fan of Le Pen or just anti-immigrant in general?

r66 She's citing Al Jazeera now. Irony dies laughing.

Like France, all of Europe has taken an anti mass-immigration stance.

See recent elections in Italy (first in line for arrivals)

r64 well he hates them anyway!

He has aids and is fat and lost his looks. He is bitter and no matter how many baby stem cell flavoured daiquiris he drinks he still has it!

[quote]See recent elections in Italy (first in line for arrivals)

Fascism popular in Italy shock!

R72 Is why the right is winning in Europe.

r73 The right has been winning in Italy since the 1930s, dear.

The Italians voted wisely in the recent election.

Here's a photo of Italians wisely disposing of their fascists rulers...

All his solo albums sucked donkey balls. Maz should get down on his knees and blow Johnny Marr to thank him for his success.

That is if he didn't already.

At last... it's official: Morrissey is a twat:

Yes R76 we know. Everyone who disagrees with you is a racist, a Fascist, a Nazi.

Meanwhile, it seems that more Europeans agree with Morrissey's view on mass immigration than yours.

[quote]Meanwhile, it seems that more Europeans agree with Morrissey's view on mass immigration than yours.

Except they keep voting for center-right and center-left parties more than far-right ones. But other than that, good point!

Another classic Morrissey statement, this one from 2011; he was performing in Warsaw just after the right-wing, anti-immigrant fascist cunt Anders Breivik killed 69 people in Norway (one as young as 14):

[quote]"We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown, with 97 [sic] dead. Though that is nothing compared to what happens in McDonald's and Kentucky Fried shit every day."

[quote]We all live in a murderous world, as the events in Norway have shown, with 97 [sic] dead. Though that is nothing compared to what happens in McDonald's and Kentucky Fried shit every day."

"The 52-year-old vegetarian and animal rights activist allegedly made the remarks"

"Just before performing his single Meat is Murder, he reportedly told the crowd: "

From a Guardian article about the incident. Note the words: " allegedly " and "reportedly".

No direct recorded evidence? At a concert?

Even his comment: the Chinese are a "sub species" takes on a different tone in context: he called the Chinese people a "sub-species" over their treatment of animals and attitude toward animal welfare.

I imagine their treatment of dogs alone gets plenty of similar comments from dog lovers all over the world.

Morrissey sounds like a militant animal rights loon... but also pretty harmless.

It's bizarre how people want to attack his concerns regarding animal welfare without actually wading into the subject matter.

And YES - the things Chinese people do to animals does qualify their behaviors as "sub-species".

I don't think he is vegan. He subsists solely on cheese sandwiches.

r41, when Bowie filmed Let's Dance in rural Australia he was amazed and horrified about how the greater population speaks off and treats aborigines.

[quote]And YES - the things Chinese people do to animals does qualify their behaviors as "sub-species".

All Chinese people? Morrissey is supposed to be an intelligent man who is good with words. You'd think he'd know the difference between "the way some Chinese people treat animals is disgraceful," say, and "the Chinese are a subspecies". Unless, of course, he's a racist and said exactly what he felt.

Again, this is supposed to be an intelligent man who writes for a living:

[quote]"Reggae...is to me the most racist music in the entire world. It's an absolute total glorification of black supremacy." He went on, "Ultimately, I don't have very cast iron opinions on black music other than black modern music which I detest. I detest Stevie Wonder. I think Diana Ross is awful... I think they're all vile in the extreme. In essence this music doesn't say anything." The interviewer responded, "You seem to be saying that you believe that there is some sort of black pop conspiracy being organized to keep white indie groups down." What was Morrissey's response? "Yes, I really do."

Either he's a fucking moron or he's a racist.

He seems like a product of the British class system and somehow that fucked him up. I noticed that his favorite bands and artists all have a working-class background. He’s the type who would refuse to listen to an artist, if they were upper-class.

I rather think he detests the poor, he thinks they are simply vile.

Except for the rough trade he wants to fuck him.

White trash Conor McGregor would be right up his Strasse.

Well, he's never criticized the Tories for their policies aimed at the poor and the fact that poverty in the UK is rife. His only bone of contention with them seems to be the fact that David Cameron enjoys fox hunting and Theresa May praised a Muslim celebration. Oh, and the fact that the Conservatives don't actually "conserve our heritage". What a maroon.

[quote]All Chinese people? Morrissey is supposed to be an intelligent man who is good with words. You'd think he'd know the difference between "the way some Chinese people treat animals is disgraceful,"

It's not about how SOME Chinese people treat animals... he's talking about something Chinese society condones.

In Britain everything revolves around class. People treat you according to your accent and lineage. Those who studied at Oxford or Cambridge (and who were already upper class) are the Brahmins. They love to mollycuddle and look down upon ‘the rest’ in equal measure. Just read The Guardian and you’ll get the idea. Northern/Western Europe in general is very egalitarian. In Scandinavia or Germany nobody cares about your snob credentials or family heritage.

R87 could you please provide a link to the interview. Thanks in advance.

J’adore Morrissey.

Thank you , R91 . R86 , please pay attention to him, stop being an apologist, and try to keep up.

[quote]J’adore Morrissey.

Morrissey is harmless and if you read his quotes in context you'll see that they don't deserve all the pearl clutching.

At least with Morrissey you know where he stands.... the real deplorable are the professional hypocrites like Sting and Bono.

*deplorables

He has to make that EDL quid before he croaks from cancer. Increasingly irrelevant - like any crazy standing at the street corner shouting obscenities. Interesting for a very short while and then you just stop noticing them as you walk by.

Hypocrites die a more painful death.

Does this shock anyone?

Moz is a miserable asshole, but he's no different than a typical Datalounger when you get right down to it.

It's interesting how Morrissey and The Smiths were openly targeting a gay male audience in the earliest days, esp. with the "Hand In Glove" cover and so on. He gave his first and only interview with a gay magazine in 1983. Obviously, The Smiths became far more successful than Morrissey or anyone else had ever expected and he quickly retreated into the ambiguity that he's since worn to shreds.

R102, I always read their stuff as gay, maybe wishful thinking? But Morrissey’s solo work is definitely about men - one album is called “Swords!” Listen to Goodlooking Man About Town and Dear God Please Help Me.

I worked at a Tower Records location when Malajusted was released. I was a huge fan of the Smiths and liked a few of his solo songs, but the experience of dealing with him during the instore soured me forever. I can't even imagine why he would have been booked for such a thing, as he was known for his grumpiness even then, but I suppose the label pushed for it.

It wasn't the whole "don't talk to him" thing, as we're there to do a job, not get in the way. But it was the "don't make eye contact" business, many demands on what we were wearing, what was on the walls and displays, the lighting, the demand to have a particular scent in the store, the weird demands re: rearranging the store. Two weeks before he arrived we had four new employees, all who looked like muscle bound models, and they all magically disappeared the day after his (short and terse) appearance, so I assume they were there to be "his" idea of a Tower employee. (Celibate, my ass.)

But the biggest thing was just hearing how he spoke to his own people. I was glad he didn't direct any of that ugliness at any of us, because I would have told him to fuck himself. As it was, the band played half of one song, and he was supposed to do a meet and greet with a handful of select fans who had donated to some vegan cause of his, but when someone brought a Smiths album he hissed at them - hissed - like a snake. And flounced like a petulant child.

Some big punk dude said, loudly, "What a cunt!" And people clapped. No one was impressed by his behavior.

If I ever saw that bitch again I would pelt him with Big Macs.

Deep down it doesn't matter how intelligent he comes across he's still a fucking racist with a huge world owes me chip on his wretched shoulder.

“I rather think he detests the poor, he thinks they are simply vile.“ r89

I am confused. I thought he was British. Are you saying he is a Hillary supporter?

In Britain he used to moan about how much tax he had to pay, maybe that's why he moved to America.

[quote]Deep down it doesn't matter how intelligent he comes across he's still a fucking racist with a huge world owes me chip on his wretched shoulder.

You mean, in other words, he sounds like the average American hip-hop/rap artist.

A kangaroo wouldn't hop - so zoo visitors in China stoned it to death

[quote]If I ever saw that bitch again I would pelt him with Big Macs.

I love you r104

Morrissey's forthcoming album will be full of cover songs. His collapse is complete.

He’s a cretin, but has he still got a nice singing voice? If so, I would not mind a covers album.