Morrissey is named in the lyric of Fever 333's new song, called New West Order



The mention is at about 1 minute in there.

Here's a link to the lyrics: https://genius.com/Fever-333-new-west-order-lyrics

Michael O' Connor Marotta for Vanyaland includes the song in a list of five favourite new tracks for June 2024

FEVER 333, ‘New West Order’​

There’s a motherf*cking heat advisory covering most of the country, and now we know why: FEVER 333 dropped a ferocious new single called “New West Order.” The chaotic hardcore and hip-hop hybrid might even be the first to name-drop Tupac and Morrissey in the same lyric, and that’s reflective of the song overall, as it celebrates the Southern California melting pot of styles, sounds, and cultures. “There is an intersectional hot bed where the hood and hardcore meet,” says FEVER 333’s Jason Aalon Butler. “For pimp’s and...

Excerpt:

When ageing Smiths fans like me sing along to ‘This Charming Man’, The Smiths' second, breakthrough 1983 single - and the song that ruined our lives - we fondly imagine ourselves achieving some kind of crude approximation of his famous vocals, after all these years of study and devotion. Trying to live up to the lyrical command of that soliciting single.

But as this stunning, eerie, isolated - desolate, even - vocal track from the single recording, stripped back of all the bright, jangly cheeriness, proves, none of us, or his professional imitators, came even slightly close. Ever.

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[Originally posted in the Morrissey swearing thread]

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Les Tameside said:

‘Shit’ is used on ‘How can Anyone Possibly Know…’. It was a word also used by me, immediately after hearing the song.

I gather I’m in a minority, but I really like Tony the Pony.

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With Morrissey's concern for radio airplay, it's not surprising he doesn't use coarse language in his songs. However he has no qualms otherwise in his professional life.

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SOMEWHERE THERE’S A FEATHER


Linder Sterling and Morrissey

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June 24, 2024

NME fax surfaces from 2002

Hello Moz
It's NME's 50th anniversary issue and it's brought out the magnanimous old fool in us, so we'd like to make up. We're really sorry about all that racism stuff and taking the piss about that Union Jack business at Finsbury Park - we just didn't get the point you were making to be honest. We're not the brightest bunch up here, frankly, any lyric more complicated than "Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing" pretty much goes over our heads. But we've had our Dodgy Politics Spotting Dept working on Asian Rut and National Front Disco since 1994 and this week they gave the all-clear. So let's bury the hatchet, shake hands and be men about it. Waddayasay?
Mark Beaumont, NME.

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