Any cut-rate Smith fan will no doubt have the lyrics to their 1986 moaner “Unloveable” memorized and possibly even carved into their Trapper Keeper.
But even the most rabid Mozzer fanatic might be at a loss to justify the context in which he’s decided to use those lyrics.
So goes the song: “I wear black on the outside, because black is how I feel on the inside.”
Well, now that line is emblazoned on an official Morrissey T-shirt, wreathed around a photograph of late author and social critic James Baldwin.
How about we take this to the next level?
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Here’s the end result:
The shirt will be available for sale at Morrissey’s upcoming North American tour, as reported by the official Morrissey website True To You.
Perhaps this is first in a series of racially-charged Morrissey T-shirts based on his lyrics, and next in line will be designs for “Asian Rut,” “The National Front Disco,” and “Bengali in Platforms.”
To line his coffers a bit more, he could even commission an official Morrissey T-shirt that simply reads, “The Chinese are a subspecies.”
h/t: Pitchfork
mattsi
huh? One can take issue with the t-shirt, and perhaps dig into what Morrissey was trying to convey,…but to resurrect long-dead issues, e.g. National Front Disco and Bengali in Platforms, as if they’re new and then, as is usually the case, to cite them out of context, is contemptible. Were the author actually someone who knew the history of these songs and Morrissey’s goal in writing them, he’d be better suited to write about them (and would certainly not presume them to be racist in any way). This reminds me of the Dead Kennedy’s in the 1980’s, where people would point to song titles like “Kill the Poor” as being proof of wicked intent. People should read lyrics to determine what the songs are about before spouting off ignorantly.
CanadianGuy62
It’s “Smiths” fan, not “Smith” fan. The band was know as “The Smiths,” not “The Smith,” or “Smith.”
CanadianGuy62
mattsi:
It’s Dead “Kennedys,” not “Kennedy’s.”