Nancy Sinatra has rushed to Morrissey’s defence after the troubled troubadour was savaged somewhat unnecessarily by pop princeling Ed Sheeran in the press.
The war of words between the musical colossus that is Morrissey and the diminutive dullard that is Ed Sheeran began when the mighty Mozza quite reasonably lamented on the state of modern music, and how “It can’t possibly get any worse.”
“There are no bands or singers who become successful without overwhelming marketing…no surprise success stories.
“Everything is stringently controlled, obvious and predictable and has exactly the same content. So, we are now in the era of marketed pop stars, which means that the labels fully control the charts, and consequently the public has lost interest.”
In an era when “musical geniuses” such as Kim Kardashian appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, you’d either have to be a tasteless fool or an Ed Sheeran fan to deny that Morrissey is making a quite civilized and well-qualified point with regard to “marketed pop stars.”
Morrissey then goes on to elaborate his well thought out argument when he vents his disgust at being force-fed a steady diet of nothing in the shape of Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith.
Oh dear god! Is that the tepid strains of Sheeran I can hear?
Having the likes of Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith shoved down your throat is not palatable by anyone’s standards, and like any poetic soul bruised by the coarseness and vulgarity of modern life, Morrissey hangs his head at the horror of it all.
“It’s very rare that a record label does something for the good of music. Thus we are force-fed such as Ed Sheeran and Sam Smith, which at least means that things can’t possibly get any worse. It is sad, though. There’s no spontaneity now, and it all seems to be unsalvageable.”
Morrissey’s comments were met with a rapturous applause by a music loving public who for too long have been randomly ambushed by the spontaneous appearance of Sheeraan and Smith on the airwaves, the internet, and the television.
Like an extremely toxic and viral plague, Sheeran, Smith, Swift, and all the other walking mediocrities of easy listening have seeped into the very cultural fabric of Western society without invite, or recourse to reason.
Predictably, Sheeran took offence at Morrissey’s rationale. An incensed red Ed, frothing at the mouth in indignation, took to Twitter like a munchkin possessed and roared, “Even you guys should think this is absolute b******s.
“Taking me out of the equation, Sam was the least predictable success story of the last year.”
Such savagery and venom by Sheeran obviously took Morrissey by surprise, and he has chosen to retain a dignified silence in the face of Sheeran’s toddler like-outburst.
Yet Nancy Sinatra is a different matter. The daughter of ol’ blue eyes has called for her old friend to get back in touch.
”I miss him (Morrissey). I can’t find him. Maybe you should write that for me: where are you? Get in touch!
“He was my best mentor in a way because he didn’t have the self-serving thing that Lee [Hazlewood] had.”
Watch ya mouth Sheeran. Mozza happens to be a good friend of mine.
Obviously having Frank Sinatra’s daughter in his corner is a massive coup for Morrissey in his ongoing punishing bout with the murderous mediocrity of modern music. Seconds out! Round two!
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