Morrissey Says He Won’t Live Long Enough to Record Album at ‘Grown Up’ Label

“Wanna listen to Morrissey? He’s cool. And he’s pissy, and he hates everyone and everything.”

At the end of a North American tour that saw 22 stops in the US and Mexico, former Smiths singer Morrissey has written a pissy open letter on the site true-to-you.net, in which he hates everyone and everything. Well, he’s hating on record labels (not news) and US concert security staff, while showing love to fans as well as Mexico, in general. (The music legend has a notably fierce Latino fan base.)

Glumly, Morrissey predicts he will die before afforded the opportunity to record an album for a “grownup” label again, a subject he swears he won’t be speaking on again:

I now no longer expect to live long enough to experience an offer to record for a grownup label. This topic would not sound quite so banal had I not mentioned it 47 times already. I promise I will not mention it again. The world, I expect, will somehow endure, even as the follow-up to ‘Years of refusal’ grows less and less likely. End of subject. I promise.

Morrissey extols the virtues of his tour’s treatment in Mexico, where he says he found crowds to be the most “loving (and loud)” he’d ever experienced. However, he didn’t have the same praise for his experiences in many US cities- and decried security staff for roughing up his fans. He explains:

I stopped the show at the Royal Oak Theater in Michigan in consideration of the audience – who were being unashamedly assaulted by the in-house security. It is difficult to watch this happen, especially when our friends (such as Douglas) are being forcibly choked to death simply for being there… You all know how to contact the Royal Oak Theater. The Head of Security at the Royal Oak was the one inflicting the most damage. He obviously thought he was still down at the abattoir – or wished he were.

(Emphasis throughout is his.) Morrissey ends on a low note, explaining that going into 2012, his focus is battling Brit music magazine NME over their alleged editing to a 2007 interview to make him appear to be racist. He says:

Well. As the year dies, I return to England to prepare for the High Court circus of the NME case. Instead of simply saying “sorry” (for re-writing the answers to my last NME interview in 2007 in order to make me sound racist), the imperious NME would rather spend hundreds and hundreds of thousands of pounds in a High Court duel to the death… With the help of their giddy fan base at The Guardian newspaper, now is the NME’s big chance to scorch me off the human map for good. And what a triumph that would be for them. What a proud and eternal boast.

Oh England, oh England – is this all you have to offer?

Full text of Morrissey comments can be found here.