In an exclusive interview with the Daily Telegraph the former Smith’s front man Morrissey claims that he’s being “gagged” and that what he calls “Idiot Culture” is preventing his latest album’s release.
What he refers to as the best album of his life Bonfire of Teenagers, the singer’s 14th solo album that he completed back in May 2021 is being prevented from release due to its title track
The track says the paper is “about the 2017 Manchester Arena terror attack, when a suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured over a thousand more after a concert by American pop star Ariana Grande.
Morrissey sings of a fan being “vapourised” and the song ends with an unsettling repeated coda to “Go easy on the killer”, which appears to be a comment on the British justice system
Further more the lyrics take a swipe at the communal singing of Don’t Look back in anger
“And the morons sing and sway: ‘Don’t Look Back in Anger’, I can assure you I will look back in anger ’till the day I die”.
In the interview conducted with the paper he says
”The Manchester Arena bombing was our 9/11. But, in this sad country of ours, to understand the full meaning of the attack is to be guilty, and this is why the ‘don’t look back in anger’ command always struck me as derisive and not at all words of social harmony.”
Adding : “Once you edit yourself or self-censor then the idiots have won. There is no arts media anymore in England, therefore there’s no one to whom I can sit and talk about this. The fact is, genuine artists in England are now being held hostage by people who object to any manner of alternative opinion.
