Day 2368 - "When we sing about LEGS"
At 11:51 last night - 6:51pm Washington DC time - Morrissey again paid a visit to the comments section of FTM. Dressed once again as Dawn Mist, Morrissey was armed with a song, and some words of surprise:
"4am and once again
I have to point out a coincidence on FTM
It's 4am and once again
I am here to elucidate for the dreary few
Everything Astra Loved is seen
When we sing about LEGS
We are surprised this link has not been seen before now. Please. This is your greatest clue. There may not be another."
There is certainly a fair few mentions of legs on the new Morrissey album, particularly with the song, When You Open Your Legs, and the wonderful line in Home Is A Question Mark of, "If I get there, would you meet me, wrap your legs around my face just to greet me?", but could all these songs about legs really be a nod to MorrisseysWorld?
It is of course very true that the Morrissey pessoa, Astra, was obsessed with legs, and would be forever tweeting photographs of actresses's legs (including the one of Claudia Cardinale above) or making leg references. For instance, on Day 1317 of FTM (April 23rd 2015) I reported that Astra had tweeted, "I'm taking up songwriting. 'If You've Got the Legs, I've Got the Time'." And in the comments section of that same blog entry, Astra went on to write, "I always love that you always love all of the legs that I always love to always post. Always", before adding, "We'll definitely still have Brigitte's legs. We'll definitely still have my legs. And I'll definitely still always have some Veuve. At least enough for me."
Astra was indeed, leg mad, but she wasn't the only one. Our Mozzer's original MorrisseysWorld twitter account also had previous for legs, especially where Boy George was concerned. On September 25th 2011, OM tweeted to Boy George, "I welcome you with open legs", whilst on February 28th 2012, he tweeted, "In the absence of your tweets and in the absence of retweets, I have decided I'm throwing my legs around @BoyGeorge."
Astra was also, always, champagne mad, and I'm sure that I wasn't the only member of the BRS to smile to themselves on reading the bit in the Chrissy Iley interview, in which Morrissey brings up the subject of champagne - he also mentioned gin, which is Dawn Mist's tipple of choice. When Chrissy Iley said to Morrissey that gin makes you miserable, he wittingly replied, "It's supposed to". I also smiled to myself when Morrissey discussed tequila with Iley saying, "Tequila frightens me. I don't drink it but I see people drinking it and it shocks me. As soon as they neck it they are just completely off their doodas." Did Morrissey's humorous comment about being off their doodas make it into the Sunday Times edited version? Of course not. Heaven forbid that they show that old Mozzer has a sense of humour.
I wrote yesterday about Daniel Grimwank, and later tweeted that Morrissey's statement on stage the other day that he will never again give a print interview was probably related to Daniel Grimwank's false allegations about supporting paedophilia and also the hysterical headlines about Moz wanting to kill Trump. My tweet was replied to by Juliane Liebert (@juliapetpetpet), who had carried out the interview for Der Spiegel. Liebert tweeted, "That's not what was written in the interview tho, none of it"..... and THAT is the problem! On Tuesday we had Chrissy Iley realising that people make things up about Morrissey, and now we have Juliane Liebert realising the same. The interviewers can see that it is all lies, but the public believe the twisted headlines of the mainstream media, so it is perfectly understandable to see why Morrissey no longer wants to give interviews. The media have no interest in balanced views, no interest in humorous anecdotes, and no interest in anything that might be remotely interesting, they are ONLY interested in a headline that gives them publicity. It's a fucked-upworld.
I also wrote yesterday of a heckler at the concert in Detroit. It transpires that someone; who apparently is a Trump supporter, kept shouting, "fuck you" at Morrissey, so Morrissey threatened to leave, but then instead asked the audience if they would like the heckler to go instead. There was an appreciative roar, and so the heckler was ejected. There is a simple message here, if you don't like Morrissey or his views, then don't go and watch him in concert.
There still remains no Youtube footage from that concert in Detroit - except some poorly recorded clips of: How Soon Is Now?, Suedehead, I Started Something I Couldn't Finish, Chain Gang. A Facebook clip of Munich Air Disaster 1958 has been posted, along with an Instagram clip of Moz waving the Venezuelan flag at the end of Who Will Protect Us From The Police, but it is all very disappointing - I like to watch the whole concert, especially when there are different songs added to the set.
Morrissey's eleventh study album, Low In High School, is currently Number 1 in both the UK and US Vinyl Album Charts. The album is also Number 5 in the UK Chart, and as I mentioned on Tuesday, it is Number 20 in the US Album Chart. To put that US chart position into perspective, Paloma Faith - who beat Morrissey to the top of the UK Chart - failed to make it into the Top 200 in America. At 58, Morrissey remains a global artist at the top of his game. As I have previously mentioned, David Bowie was all but washed-up by the age of 58, so we can no longer use him as a bench-mark to see where Moz sits among the greats at a similar age. Instead, let me turn to Paul McCartney; after all, there is no one bigger than The Beatles.
At age 57 McCartney released his eleventh solo album, Run Devil Run, which reached Number 12 in the UK and Number 27 in the USA. McCartney's twelfth studio album, Driving Rain, was released two years later in 2001, when PM was aged 59. Driving Rain made it to Number 46 in the UK and 26 in the USA. We obviously don't know when Morrissey will release another album, but there has to be a very good chance that it will do better than Driving Rain.
And finally, the Official Moz twitter account yesterday tweeted that a video would be released today for Jacky's Only Happy When She's Up On The Stage.
This afternoon, as if by magic, the Jacky video appeared. It is all blues and reds, which reminds me of Twin Peaks. Is this Morrissey in The Black Lodge?
The vinyl version of the single is released next Friday, and is set to become Number 1 in the UK Vinyl Chart.
"4am and once again
I have to point out a coincidence on FTM
It's 4am and once again
I am here to elucidate for the dreary few
Everything Astra Loved is seen
When we sing about LEGS
We are surprised this link has not been seen before now. Please. This is your greatest clue. There may not be another."
There is certainly a fair few mentions of legs on the new Morrissey album, particularly with the song, When You Open Your Legs, and the wonderful line in Home Is A Question Mark of, "If I get there, would you meet me, wrap your legs around my face just to greet me?", but could all these songs about legs really be a nod to MorrisseysWorld?
It is of course very true that the Morrissey pessoa, Astra, was obsessed with legs, and would be forever tweeting photographs of actresses's legs (including the one of Claudia Cardinale above) or making leg references. For instance, on Day 1317 of FTM (April 23rd 2015) I reported that Astra had tweeted, "I'm taking up songwriting. 'If You've Got the Legs, I've Got the Time'." And in the comments section of that same blog entry, Astra went on to write, "I always love that you always love all of the legs that I always love to always post. Always", before adding, "We'll definitely still have Brigitte's legs. We'll definitely still have my legs. And I'll definitely still always have some Veuve. At least enough for me."
Astra was indeed, leg mad, but she wasn't the only one. Our Mozzer's original MorrisseysWorld twitter account also had previous for legs, especially where Boy George was concerned. On September 25th 2011, OM tweeted to Boy George, "I welcome you with open legs", whilst on February 28th 2012, he tweeted, "In the absence of your tweets and in the absence of retweets, I have decided I'm throwing my legs around @BoyGeorge."
Astra was also, always, champagne mad, and I'm sure that I wasn't the only member of the BRS to smile to themselves on reading the bit in the Chrissy Iley interview, in which Morrissey brings up the subject of champagne - he also mentioned gin, which is Dawn Mist's tipple of choice. When Chrissy Iley said to Morrissey that gin makes you miserable, he wittingly replied, "It's supposed to". I also smiled to myself when Morrissey discussed tequila with Iley saying, "Tequila frightens me. I don't drink it but I see people drinking it and it shocks me. As soon as they neck it they are just completely off their doodas." Did Morrissey's humorous comment about being off their doodas make it into the Sunday Times edited version? Of course not. Heaven forbid that they show that old Mozzer has a sense of humour.
I wrote yesterday about Daniel Grimwank, and later tweeted that Morrissey's statement on stage the other day that he will never again give a print interview was probably related to Daniel Grimwank's false allegations about supporting paedophilia and also the hysterical headlines about Moz wanting to kill Trump. My tweet was replied to by Juliane Liebert (@juliapetpetpet), who had carried out the interview for Der Spiegel. Liebert tweeted, "That's not what was written in the interview tho, none of it"..... and THAT is the problem! On Tuesday we had Chrissy Iley realising that people make things up about Morrissey, and now we have Juliane Liebert realising the same. The interviewers can see that it is all lies, but the public believe the twisted headlines of the mainstream media, so it is perfectly understandable to see why Morrissey no longer wants to give interviews. The media have no interest in balanced views, no interest in humorous anecdotes, and no interest in anything that might be remotely interesting, they are ONLY interested in a headline that gives them publicity. It's a fucked-upworld.
I also wrote yesterday of a heckler at the concert in Detroit. It transpires that someone; who apparently is a Trump supporter, kept shouting, "fuck you" at Morrissey, so Morrissey threatened to leave, but then instead asked the audience if they would like the heckler to go instead. There was an appreciative roar, and so the heckler was ejected. There is a simple message here, if you don't like Morrissey or his views, then don't go and watch him in concert.
There still remains no Youtube footage from that concert in Detroit - except some poorly recorded clips of: How Soon Is Now?, Suedehead, I Started Something I Couldn't Finish, Chain Gang. A Facebook clip of Munich Air Disaster 1958 has been posted, along with an Instagram clip of Moz waving the Venezuelan flag at the end of Who Will Protect Us From The Police, but it is all very disappointing - I like to watch the whole concert, especially when there are different songs added to the set.
Morrissey's eleventh study album, Low In High School, is currently Number 1 in both the UK and US Vinyl Album Charts. The album is also Number 5 in the UK Chart, and as I mentioned on Tuesday, it is Number 20 in the US Album Chart. To put that US chart position into perspective, Paloma Faith - who beat Morrissey to the top of the UK Chart - failed to make it into the Top 200 in America. At 58, Morrissey remains a global artist at the top of his game. As I have previously mentioned, David Bowie was all but washed-up by the age of 58, so we can no longer use him as a bench-mark to see where Moz sits among the greats at a similar age. Instead, let me turn to Paul McCartney; after all, there is no one bigger than The Beatles.
At age 57 McCartney released his eleventh solo album, Run Devil Run, which reached Number 12 in the UK and Number 27 in the USA. McCartney's twelfth studio album, Driving Rain, was released two years later in 2001, when PM was aged 59. Driving Rain made it to Number 46 in the UK and 26 in the USA. We obviously don't know when Morrissey will release another album, but there has to be a very good chance that it will do better than Driving Rain.
And finally, the Official Moz twitter account yesterday tweeted that a video would be released today for Jacky's Only Happy When She's Up On The Stage.
This afternoon, as if by magic, the Jacky video appeared. It is all blues and reds, which reminds me of Twin Peaks. Is this Morrissey in The Black Lodge?
The vinyl version of the single is released next Friday, and is set to become Number 1 in the UK Vinyl Chart.
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