I agree, and it extends well beyond that issue. It seems that a lot of writing (not just about Morrissey) is based around some sort of meta-narrative that is usually stated as simple fact or merely alluded to, for which no arguments are given and which in effect ends up constituting the whole message because everything else is interpreted into it. Which is how Morrissey has again become an annoying figure of questionable judgment and absent maturity whose career is going nowhere. At least, that's the general impression you're left with from a lot of english press coverage of him these days. Just like he was God's gift to England and Most Influential Person Ever around the time of Quarry, just like Ringleader was hailed as a masterpiece here and there because that was the direction in which the arrow was pointing at the time and just like YOR was greeted largely with a sullen shrug. His next album, if there is one, will be ridiculed. And then in another ten years he'll be God again. I conclude that journalists think too much about the wrong things, as if they shared an unspoken collective need to always move everything in some direction or other.
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