Here’s a nice snarky article about it (note, some of the banner ads might be NSFW): http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/news/06-03/27.shtml.
Here’s what I think about it: He made the announcement about five days too early (he made it yesterday).
Attributed to the most self serving individual in pop entertainment.
Well, I certainly respect his right to express his opinion. He might be a narrow-minded, tunnel-visioned, over-the-hill, hypocritical hack, but at least he’s standing up for what he believes in.
Morrissey who?
Canada is not the world.
I’d gladly slaughter a dozen seals, myself, if I could make that boycott permanent (and could he please take Paul McCartney with him).
I like his music (The smiths at least) but what a maroon. As the article points out he tours in the U.S.A. fer cryin’ out loud! We eat meat like it’ll all be gone tomorrow.
I like Morrissey (he was amazing when I saw him live in 2004) and I’m a colossal Smiths fan, but that dude definitely needs to think before he speaks.
Back in the '80s, I believe Madonna said something like “There isn’t anything wrong with him that couldn’t be cured by a cheeseburger and a good fuck.”
Morrissey’s still alive? I thought he died years ago.
That reminds me of my days in college. I was annoyed by his using only one name, and decided to call him Edith Morrisey*. I still have a couple of friends who know just who is meant if you say “Edith”.
*It’s a perfectly good name; it was my grandmother’s.
I’m pretty sure she’d retract half that statement, these days (because of Kabbalah and all).
What a dolt. Iraq war? Meh. Killing animals that look adorable in nature films and cuter than veal on calendars? Heartless. (I know, I know, not the place to debate. But what a reason to boycott all of a nation’s products)
I missed his interview (and his show) at SXSW, but he apparently said in the interview that the Smiths were offered $5 million to reunite at Coachella this year, and they turned it down.
There was a rumor–almost certainly crap–that he was supposed to play a secret day show at a small venue somewhere in Austin, but he cancelled when he couldn’t get past the smell from the barbecue joint next door. I do know that Ray Davies was supposed to follow him at his night show as an unannounced guest; he cancelled for reasons that no one ever explained, but the implication was that he had problems with Morrissey’s entourage.
Everybody said the show was great, though.
Yay! My lifelong dream of banning Morrissey from Canada has been realized!
[sub]I was once driving from Montreal to Toronto when someone put Morrissey in the tape deck. Everyone promptly fell asleep, and it was only through sheer force of will that I managed to stop the infernal sound coming out of the speakers before succumbing myself. Damn cassette jammed my stereo for the rest of the weekend.[/sub]
Aah! People who don’t like Morrissey! I need a bio suit!
Sorry. This is the first time I’ve run across a group of people who knew who he was and didn’t like him. It’s just kind of weird.
I have a hard time believing that the irony of his boycott would be lost on him.
Anyway, here’s the full statement so you can see it in full: http://true-to-you.net/morrissey_news_060327_02
I had a roommate who went through a rough time and Smiths/Morrissey was her panacea, after the horrendeous six months of non-stop whiney pop, I dreamt of the same as Barbarian - now just to ban his music!
Oh lovely. He’s even more of an idiot than I realized:
Right. Because seal hunting is exactly the same as the Holocaust. Apparently he’s never heard of Godwin.
Ooookay. Morrissey, you’re clearly delusional. There is far more pain and cruelty inflicted on animals in commercial agriculture in any random country than there is in the seal hunt. It’s just not generally filmed and splashed across the evening news. But because the seals bleed bright red in high contrast on nice white ice floes instead of in the kill pit of an abbatoir, it’s even worse than military occupation, political persecution, all manner of inhumane treatment of people in other countries. Except for the political persecution and such in China, it’s not actually worse than that, just tied with it.
I don’t much care if someone is a vegetarian or even vegan. I don’t have anything against such people campaigning to reduce cruelty to animals, which is indeed widespread (though such campaigns are doomed to failure until they come to understand the economic realities which underlie most of what cruelty there is, and work to change the economics of the situation rather than bitching in the media). But Christ on a fucking pogo stick, is it too much to ask that they not be complete morons with priorities grotesquely warped by baseless emotional responses to the cuteness of baby seals in comparison to hogs?
I’m with Hodge; just tell me what to kill that’ll make Ms. Morissey boycott singing, music, film, television and the USA for the rest of his life, and that @#$%in’ thing is gonna die.
The Fisheries Ministry just announced they’re upping this year’s whale hunt quota by 50% just to try and keep him out. Norway’s 2005 harvest of 800 whales proved insufficient to stave off a Morrissey concert, so Japan’s whaling fleet is working feverishly to break the 1000 mark. God willing, it will be enough.