The Smiths frontman Morrissey has taken to his website to unleash a blistering take on today’s current media landscape.
The singer has claimed outlets are trying to “delete” him from “being the central essence of The Smiths”.
Morrissey’s furious blog, published on January 11, comes amid reports that questioned his role in getting the band off its feet.
Clearly feeling the mixed reports have downplayed his part in the band’s spot in music history, Morrissey shared a blog with the title: “Cancel culture begins at home.”
In it, the 64-year-old fumed: “There is an obvious media shift to delete me from being the central essence of The Smiths…
“But this cannot work because I invented the group name, the song titles, the album titles, the artwork, the vocal melodies, and all of the lyrical sentiments came from my heart.”
Morrissey then compared the reports as similar to suggesting Mick Jagger had “nothing to do with the Stones”.
Delving into the details, Morrissey hit back at reports that have suggested he wasn’t involved in the “initial meeting at Rough Trade Records”.
Dismissing the suggestion that Andy Rourke was there in his place, Morrissey penned: “The meeting, of course, was Morrissey and [Johnny] Marr.
“Even Geoff Travis has now suddenly decided that he ‘can’t remember who was with Johnny,’ even though Geoff looked me squarely in the eye on that very day and said, ‘We’d like to release Hand In Glove immediately’.
“And he then more importantly said to me that his name was Geoff with a G, not Jeff with a J.”
Morrissey brought his latest post to a close with the warning: “The hounds are snapping!”
Before he defiantly put: “Hand in glove, I stake my claim! I’ll fight to the last breath!”
The comments were made by Morrissey in conversation in Japan in 2023.
This isn’t the first time Morrissey has taken aim at cancel culture in today’s media landscape.
In early 2023, Morrissey slapped back at the suggestion singer Miley Cyrus dropped out of a collaboration due to his political views.
He said that Cyrus asked to leave the project for “reasons unconnected to me, having had a major clash with a key figure in ‘the circle'” and not to do with his views.
And referring to cancel culture, he expressed: “My friends are fully aware of a certain aim to put me out of circulation, which has inexplicably become relentless even though the entire point of Cancel Culture is to never again acknowledge whomever has been cancelled.”
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