You actually hear the Smiths more often than you'd think at 2024 Trump rallies
— Soorin Kim (@SooRinKimm) January 23, 2024
⬇️ 9/8/2023 SDGOP rally in Rapid City, South Dakota https://t.co/lNAzNNYMOk pic.twitter.com/891reN3MGR
Good times for a change/See, the luck I've had can make a good man turn bad....[The German newspaper] Der Spiegel had asked the singer: “If there was a button, and if you press it [Trump] drops dead, would you press it or not?” “I would for the safety of the human race,” Morrissey answered. “It’s nothing to do with my personal opinion of his face or his family, but in the interest of the human race, I would, yes.”
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If the Trump campaign paid for the rights, tough shit. Cry harder.
See, the luck I've had can make a good man turn bad....
"Nearly 50% of elites believe the U.S. provides 'too much individual freedom'..."
That bastard Trump is playing my music, how dare he! It’s spelled “M-O-R-R-I-S-S-E-Y”, two R’s and two S’s. Available on Spotify and iTunes….
It’s the new “Banned in Boston”.
Morrissey has been accused of being right-wing for a very long time (e.g., "Bengali in Platforms", "The National Front Disco", etc.), and also wrote "Margaret [Thatcher] on the Guillotine." I say that he's always ironic, unique, and idiosyncratic, and very hard to pigeonhole. He antagonizes the left in the same way that (left-leaning) JK Rowling does.
E.g.:
https://inews.co.uk/culture/morrisseys-most-controversial-quotes-145228
https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/music/tours/exclusive-morrissey-on-donald-trump-miley-cyrus-prince-harry-and-unreleased-smiths-material/news-story/2932f6891ea2abe238baef5a4edeee2e
Consider that the 1970s Punk icon of the Sex Pistols, Johnny Rotten, is now a Trump and Brexit supporter:
https://www.newsweek.com/john-lydon-trump-support-sex-pistols-fans-make-america-great-again-t-shirt-johnny-rotten-1534584
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/johnny-rotten-trump-us-election-trump-sex-b1009364.html
People become more conservative as they age, and definitions of left vs. right change too.
So Der Speigel actually asked a question about whether someone would, if given the opportunity, kill Trump? And that is considered acceptable for normal Q&A? You really can't hate the news media enough.
I wonder what the bagger at Aldi thinks.
Being practical and wanting solutions, wanting a functioning society where people are safe to pursue their dreams is right-wing.
Who cares if Marr doesn't want Trump playing his music? Marr has no say. He took the benefits of our regime of intellectual property protection, he will take the rest as well.
Though I’m a Smiths fan, I always preferred Dream Academy’s cover version. Feels dreamier and more introspective, just a better vibe for this particular song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En1IgPz1jfk&ab_channel=TheDreamAcademy
It came out just a year after the original. A year after that, an instrumental version of the cover was used in the art museum scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day off. Perfect vibe for Cameron staring at the painting, “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFY9ace2t4s&ab_channel=AleCloppet
Enigma said...People become more conservative as they age, and definitions of left vs. right change too.
They didn't become more conservative as they aged. Caring about the working class became right wing as they aged.
So Der Speigel actually asked a question about whether someone would, if given the opportunity, kill Trump? And that is considered acceptable for normal Q&A?
Just a moment of blissful reverie...
I wonder what the bagger at Aldi thinks.
Is this a study in self-reflection? Here's a quarter, you'll need it. You'll see what I mean. Now go to Aldi. I recommend the chocolates.
"So Der Speigel actually asked a question about whether someone would, if given the opportunity, kill Trump?"
It would be more acceptable to hand him a list of names and have him point to the one he would have killed.
Such a dreadful band.
Could there be any behavior more transgressive than celebrity trump support? Courageous and Brave!
Bigmouth Strikes Again
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said I'd like to smash every tooth
In your head
Sweetness, sweetness I was only joking
When I said by rights you should be
Bludgeoned in your bed
And now I know how Joan of Arc felt
Now I know how Joan of Arc felt
As the flames rose to her Roman nose
And her walkman started to melt
Bigmouth
Bigmouth
Bigmouth strikes again
And I've got no right to take my place
To the Human race
I love that Morrissey isn't a hivemind.
break free!
They didn't become more conservative as they aged. Caring about the working class became right wing as they aged.
+ 1
Asking about killing Trump: totally normal, for people who complain about Trump and Trumpists breaking norms.
"in the interest of the human race, I would, yes"
As we know, for progs the desire to kill signals virtue. But what does the statement even mean? Besides getting in progs' way, what did Trump actually do that endangered "the human race"?
Even on Covid, he played along with Faucism. Yes, that did harm a portion of "the human race," but I guess that's not what his enemies mean.
So Morrissey wanted Trump dead - and that still isn't good enough for the incel they/them/ abortion on demand full term dead baby porn in the grade school library open border inflation millions of illegal entrants white left hack-D media Chi Com Castro Lenin Stalin Mao Trudeau Newsome Crook Biden NBC Obey Obey Obey Obedient left? sprinkled with ding bat Kamala sauce?
I wonder what the bagger at Aldi thinks.
Mezzrow,
I took this as sarcasm. As in, “I don’t care.”
Walking away from the corrupt left does not make anyone "right wing" -
(unless you are a protectionist leftist deeply worried that anyone decide to leave the plantation of free will.)
Both the left and right use Trump as the litmus test.
Do you love him?... you must! ...scream his fans...
Do you hate him?... you must! ... scream the leftist hivemind haters.
boring.
Clearly this Smiths doosh has never been exposed to any of the tales of the 'button in the box'. So, he pushes the button. Next, the mystery man who comes and collects it tells him they're going to reset it and send it to a guy that thinks The Smiths are 'derivative'...
"Morrissey’s increasingly right-ward pronouncements have caused many a Smiths fan to recoil in horror...." (Politico)."
That's a great '80's-themed joke right there. Like something from Spy magazine in it's heyday.
I know nothing about music copyrights, but I was under the impression that if you paid the royalties you could use the music no matter what the artist thinks.
And in many bands, there are often more than one writer.
The Smiths frontman Morrissey has not yet spoken out against the use of the song. Though the singer has made headlines for his support of Brexit and anti-immigrant groups, he has previously criticized Trump and said in a 2017 interview with German outlet Der Spiegel that if he could push a button to kill him, he would do it “for the safety of the human race.” He later retracted the statement.
Mozz is a grumpy old man, running higher on the misanthropic scale than Larry David. I'm confident he'd push the button for any politician. Given his opinion of what's happening in Ireland, I think there'd be others in front of the queue before Trump.
I see the serious campaigning has not yet started, as we are still discussing the music used at rallies rather than how, or why, to win this election. Wake me up when someone asks or answers a serious question about, well, anything.
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