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Rock star Morrissey slams cancel culture, social media: Diversity means ‘conformity’
Fox News ^ | 11/2 | Alexander Hall

Posted on 12/02/2022 1:08:29 PM PST by nickcarraway

Music icon Steven Patrick Morrissey raged against cancel culture in a new interview, where he called the push for diversity is really a push for ‘conformity.'

Sam Esty Rayner Photography released an interview with Morrissey earlier this week, where he warned about how music industry labels are now far quicker to abandon their artists in 2022 than they were in past decades.

"People could make five flops and the label would stick by them, now the labels are quite bloodless, they will just get rid of you if you say anything that they don't agree with, they’re not interested," Morrissey said at the London Palladium during his U.K tour. "Now they talk about ‘oh we must have diversity diversity diversity,’ diversity is people that you don't know and it's just another word for conformity, it's the new way of saying conformity."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; diversity; morrissey
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1 posted on 12/02/2022 1:08:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

I think he might be on to something.


2 posted on 12/02/2022 1:11:11 PM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: nickcarraway

Very little of modern music is creative, so who cares. The backing music appears to be “canned”, and the vocals sound the same.


3 posted on 12/02/2022 1:14:02 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: nickcarraway

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”
― George Orwell, 1984


4 posted on 12/02/2022 1:14:17 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: nickcarraway

“Diversity means ‘conformity’

I’m using that-—it’s so true!


5 posted on 12/02/2022 1:14:37 PM PST by mikelets456
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To: nickcarraway

I said several times right here on free Republic that diversity is a call for everyone to think exactly alike, which is the opposite of diversity.


6 posted on 12/02/2022 1:19:15 PM PST by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: CatOwner
Very little of modern music is creative, so who cares. The backing music appears to be “canned”, and the vocals sound the same.

I think I hear your Perry Como record needs to be flipped over Boomer. You probably smell like BenGay, last night's Chinese and 4-day-old B.O..

7 posted on 12/02/2022 1:20:16 PM PST by pburgh01
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To: mikelets456

yep.


8 posted on 12/02/2022 1:22:51 PM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: pburgh01

Perry Como?! Dear lord, what the heck do *you* listen to? I know of several people in their 20s and 30s who listen to “older” music than anything produced in the past decade+. Nice job stereotyping, though.


9 posted on 12/02/2022 1:23:18 PM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: nickcarraway

There’s lots to like about Morrissey. I am a fan.

I am sure there are things not to like, but I like the things there are to like.

Many years ago I was working on the air side at a radio station and he was on what we used to call a satellite media tour. He was asked by a fan, a listener, what his favorite song was. He wouldn’t say.

Anyway, I was sort of a fan, and had a moment to speak with him in that same interview set.

I told him I thought I knew what his own favorite song of his was, and he dared me to guess. I did. There was a sort of long pause and he agreed: “yes, that’s right I think. How strange! I love performing that song. Very strange. Maybe it is my favorite. How did you know that?”

He was very sincere. That meant a lot to me at the time, and made me feel very special.

The song was Glamorous Glue, which I still feel has a sort of driving nationalistic energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80sbKxPXzKw


10 posted on 12/02/2022 1:26:14 PM PST by golux
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You mean his favorite song by himself, or any song?


11 posted on 12/02/2022 1:32:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Oh, yes, sorry. I meant Morrissey’s favorite Morrissey song.

This was in 1997.


12 posted on 12/02/2022 1:37:37 PM PST by golux
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To: nickcarraway

With Johnny Marr’s writing and guitar and Morrissey’s haunting vocals, the Smith’s were top notch. Not a fan of Morrissey’s lifestyle but he is no fool.


13 posted on 12/02/2022 1:41:05 PM PST by XRdsRev (Justice for Bernell Trammell, Trump supporter, murdered in 2020)
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To: nickcarraway

“icon”???

Never heard of him


14 posted on 12/02/2022 1:41:26 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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To: golux

What made you pick that song? I would have no idea.


15 posted on 12/02/2022 1:47:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: All
MST3K Morrisey (featuring Mike Nelson
16 posted on 12/02/2022 1:47:43 PM PST by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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Cancel culture arose because liberals/leftists couldn’t defeat the positions of conservatives/libertarians (small “l”) on the merits, so they reverted to the tried and true way of the Left: censorship and the destruction of lives.

THEY are the fascists, THEY are the monsters.


17 posted on 12/02/2022 1:55:43 PM PST by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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I'm not sure, really, but I would say it has a certain defiance, complimented by an insistent drive.

The defiance is individualistic, inasmuch as it is lonesome and speaks of a kind of brokenness, but it is also a wider social commentary: We look to Los Angeles, We won't vote Conservative, etc.

So, one can imagine a desire by the artist to enact some sort of nationalistic social change, "get the trains running on time," etc., but the whole business is a (naturally, for Morrissey) depressing post mortem: London is Dead.

Then again, it might be about sniffing glue.


18 posted on 12/02/2022 2:00:23 PM PST by golux
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To: nickcarraway

How ironic.


19 posted on 12/02/2022 2:01:17 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: golux

There’s also a lot to dislike- his Reagan hating first and foremost


20 posted on 12/02/2022 2:02:19 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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