Posts tagged The Smiths
Morrissey Interviews, Past to Present : Fragility and Arrogance
I’ve realised that my posts have been highly concentrated in the realm of photography lately, so I’ve decided to do something else and share two interviews with Morrissey. For those who don’t know him, he’s the singer from The Smith, the godfather of all the irony-loving indie kids/had been indie-kids in the 80’s. Seriously, if you ever see the kind of indie-kid who wears tight jeans, listens to music with big headphones on a double-decker bus (and hang around in a corner of the room at house parties), at least 12% of their soul has been expressed or assuaged by Morrissey at some point in their lives. Naturally, people would describe or judge him in different ways, but many would agree that there is none quite like him.
But enough on my perspective. The first one is from 1984 when The Smiths just broke through with their self-titled debut album, The Smiths.
The second interview is from when he was nominated as the Greatest Living Icon for the BBC 2 Culture Show.
I find it tremendously interesting that a man with such fragile roots can develop to be so arrogant in the image of his own brilliance. The funny thing is, both the fragility and the arrogance (along with his poetic genius + great sense of humour) are equally manifested, and equally essential in his music and words. Morrissey, is possibly comical/profound passive-aggressiveness at its best.
If his strange yet fascinating being has piqued your interest, you can listen to Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now - one of The Smiths’ many, many great songs.
