Rock star Morrissey slams cancel culture, social media: Diversity means ‘conformity’

Fox News ^ | 11/2 | Alexander Hall

[Leep]

I think he might be on to something.

[CatOwner]

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

[Red Badger]

“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

[mikelets456]

“Diversity means ‘conformity’

I’m using that-—it’s so true!

[subterfuge]

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.

[pburgh01]

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..

[sauropod]

yep.

[CatOwner]

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.

[golux]

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

[nickcarraway]

You mean his favorite song by himself, or any song?

[golux]

Oh, yes, sorry. I meant Morrissey’s favorite Morrissey song.

This was in 1997.

[XRdsRev]

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.

[doorgunner69]

“icon”???

Never heard of him

[nickcarraway]

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

[fidelis]

MST3K Morrisey (featuring Mike Nelson

[Ancesthntr]

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.

[golux]

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.

[God luvs America]

How ironic.

[God luvs America]

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