Morrissey Central "BMG DUMP MORRISSEY" (November 16, 2020)

https://www.morrisseycentral.com/messagesfrommorrissey/bmg-dump-morrissey

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BMG Records have dropped Morrissey. Following the March 2020 release of I AM NOT A DOG ON A CHAIN
(#1 Scotland, #1 Poland, #3 Britain, #3 France, #10 Spain, #13 Germany, #2, #9, #17, #18 U.S.A. - depending
on which official chart you follow), BMG have appointed a new Executive who does not want another Morrissey
album. Instead, the new BMG Executive has announced new plans for 'diversity' within BMG's artist roster, and
all projected BMG Morrissey releases/reissues have been scrapped.

"This news is perfectly in keeping with the relentless galvanic horror of 2020," said Morrissey, "we would be critically insane to expect anything positive."

Morrissey is once again in search of a new label willing to release his music.

"My three albums with BMG have been the best of my career, and I stand by them till death. Recording them has been a pivotal period in my life, and I thank the previous BMG team and everyone involved for that. It's still important to me to do music my own way, and I wouldn't want to be on a label that dictates so specifically how their artists should behave - especially when the word 'talent' is notably never mentioned."

Morrissey's duet with David Bowie is now available on Parlophone via Warner.

"There are too many cases of successful artists languishing at labels who are no longer interested in them." Alistair Norbury, BMG.

Morrissey's Las Vegas residency remains in place for 2021.

above quotes collected by V.Pearson for M.Central.
full interview will be printed shortly.

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Media items:

• Louder Than War: "BMG drop Morrissey from label" - November 16, 2020
• Metro: "Morrissey confirms he’s been dropped from BMG as he hits out at record label for ‘dictating how artists should behave’" - November 16, 2020
• Mirror: "Morrissey announces he's been 'dropped' by label, lamenting 'relentless horror of 2020'" - November 16, 2020
• Morrissey Parts Ways With Another Record Label, BMG - Variety. Link from shoplifterromo.
• Morrissey Blames Push for ‘Diversity’ for Label Dropping Him - SPIN

 

[NealCassidy]

Only one thing for it - Morrissey must come out as they/them

 

[NealCassidy]

I cannot imagine Johnny Marr working with a racist.

Bad news for Diane Abbott then .

 

[Bluebirds]

I cannot imagine Johnny Marr working with a racist.

He worked with Maxine Peake. Who might or might not be an anti-Semite. Everything is so confusing nowadays

 

[GirlAfraidWillNeverLearn]

Is she the East Side Informant? Being off the record?

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No idea where your screenshot was taken from but Simpson interviewed Jo Slee for the article this is referring to but the quote in question is not attributed to her but an anonymous "recently cast aside insider".

The source is:

Manchester's Answer To The H-Bomb
How it all blew up for Morrissey and The Smiths by Dave Simpson, Uncut, August 1998.

 

[Deleted member 29235]

Aww, is that official?

I heard it was likely.

His book revealed that he was lying in Guardian articles to protect Labour & he keeps insulting his colleagues.

Daftie.

Don't think so. I've seen nothing to indicate that Jones has been sacked. Suzanne Moore, on the other hand, has left as of this afternoon.

 

[Silent Reader]

I cannot imagine Johnny Marr working with a racist.

Morrissey is too good for Marr these days anyway. Has been for 30 years.

 

[A fan]

Good time to kick Sam, Jessie and Gustavo!!

 

[Silent Reader]

Only one thing for it - Morrissey must come out as they/them

Don’t even get me started on pronouns. That’s just another fashion fad.

When will all this bollocks pass?

 

[Silent Reader]

He worked with Maxine Peake. Who might or might not be an anti-Semite. Everything is so confusing nowadays

Anti-semitism is ok on the hard left, that doesn’t count as racism. Didn’t you know?

 

[Pokey]

Who knew that right-wing arsery didn't sell these days?

Bye bye Trump, bye bye Morrissey. You reap what you sow.

Maybe Stormfront Records would be interested.

And the last three albums the best of his career? They're not. They're chug-a-lug shite. Only the most cloth-eared brown-noser would say they're his best.

No labels. No recordings. Nothing. And whose fault is that? Who said all those things? Was it someone else?

Who was it who wrote "Then in the end your royalties bring you luxuries - oh but the squalor of the mind"?

For someone who hates Trump you sure do have a lot in common with him. Hanging around like a bad smell just sprouting shit about what you hate. Seriously, dude, f*** off already.

 

[Silent Reader]

For someone who hates Trump you sure do have a lot in common with him. Hanging around like a bad smell just sprouting shit about what you hate. Seriously, dude, f*** off already.

Hmmmmmm, seems to be a running theme on here....

 

[Deleted member 29227]

It’s really not. Things are rarely binary, but it’s an unfortunate facet of your own personality that you like to reduce things to a simple point and hold it up like a trophy to prove the wondrous distillate of your mind. Isn’t it time you told us about your tea bags again so we can marvel at your intellect? Your very astute lawyer wife? Your ground-breaking work in disinfectants. Winning a TV quiz. You see, we know all this because you HAVE to tell us, because you need to show us you are on a higher plane.
And in many ways, well, you’re just like Morrissey, who ate up your adult life and you can’t stop him dominating your weary trudge to the grave. Let it go.

and let's not forget:

• The crosswords for a Sunday paper;
• The Smiths-angled crossword which was, allegedly, remarkably tricky and "took a lot of head-scratching", and which only he was capable of compiling. Yes, it was exceedingly tricky;
• The visit to the hospital for the umpteenth time to give blood, complete with selfies on twatter;
• The sniveling, grovelling message to Mike Joyce via twatter, in the hope of being noticed, with claims of starting a post on here regarding Indian food related Smiths tracks, way, way before anyone else had even considered it, including Mike Joyce; the claim is actually true, he started it in 2007 (Smiths & Moz Curry top 20), yet felt the need to make Mike Joyce aware of the very fact;
• The £25 book voucher win boast;

...et al, et al

Tedium ad nauseam

 

[Anony]

That explains why there has been no further announcement about the reissues I suppose.

A real shame considering his recent albums have sold reasonably well... All the bad publicity hasn't massively harmed record sales. Are BMG really being hurt by the association?

I doubt he will struggle to find another label, but he might struggle a little to find a big label.

Dog on a String was the worst selling album of his entire career. 8,000 sales compared with nearly 50,000 for High School (and 350,000 for Quarry).
An unprecedented mass hemorrhaging of the fanbase after Morrissey urged everyone who's ever followed him (i.e. mainly decent, intelligent, informed, broad-minded, tolerant people) to support a far-right, climate-change denying, militaristic, protect-the-rich political party.
They voted with their feet, as have the record company.

 

[Anonymous]

A rare decent comment there. He’ll be back. Maybe with a new backing band. He could call them the ‘neo-nazis’ couldn’t he Nerak.

Morrissey & the neo-nazis sing right-wing anthems for the modern age.

I’d buy it.

You’d lap up the corn out of his shit, wind-bag.

 

[Silent Reader]

and let's not forget:

• The crosswords for a Sunday paper;
• The Smiths-angled crossword which was, allegedly, remarkably tricky and "took a lot of head-scratching", and which only he was capable of compiling. Yes, it was exceedingly tricky;
• The visit to the hospital for the umpteenth time to give blood, complete with selfies on twatter;
• The sniveling, grovelling message to Mike Joyce via twatter, in the hope of being noticed, with claims of starting a post on here regarding Indian food related Smiths tracks, way, way before anyone else had even considered it, including Mike Joyce; the claim is actually true, he started it in 2007 (Smiths & Moz Curry top 20), yet felt the need to make Mike Joyce aware of the very fact;
• The £25 book voucher win boast;

...et al, et al

Tedium ad nauseam

I’m disappointed I’ve missed all this, it sounds hilarious!!

 

[Deleted member 29227]

I’m disappointed I’ve missed all this, it sounds hilarious!!

It's all very much in the same vein...look at me, pat me on the head, do I get a sticker, didn't I do well, narcissism. Quite pathetic for a person of his age, really.

 

[AztecCamera]

I reckon it's called the VEGAS RESIDENCY you dumbshit twats nutty butter boggle off chipper curry. I reckon this was the plan. Get "dumped" again and have the keyboard coward sociopaths keep buyin' from the mporiumuk because they think California's Son just doesn't conform and has "extreme views" on foreign politics in Brit Tin which he has never actually said or knows nothing about, just written by foreigner journalists. The best marketing team in all of entertainment and I love it!! Just like Nike, Levis, Under Armour, New Balance, Hollister, McDonalds, Burger King....get that foreigner money California Son inn n nnn nn nn nnnnn n it!!!

 

[Bummed]

It's all very much in the same vein...look at me, pat me on the head, do I get a sticker, didn't I do well, narcissism. Quite pathetic for a person of his age, really.

Two abiding Skinny memories. His last Morrissey gig (Bradford 2011) holding court outside the pub, shouting at anyone who would take him on. Then 3 weeks later, after his “boss” got booted out of Copenhagen, Skinny bottled the Vicar St gig. All rather amusing.
FWD is next on the exclusion list, when Moz finds out who you are.

 

[Deleted member 29417]

Don't think so. I've seen nothing to indicate that Jones has been sacked. Suzanne Moore, on the other hand, has left as of this afternoon.

Ach.

This year is going to be like Towering Inferno. Names falling down lift shafts. Youths staggering out covered in soot in their hot pants.

 

[The Irish Hare]

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Excerpt:

BMG Records have dropped Morrissey. Following the March 2020 release of I AM NOT A DOG ON A CHAIN
(#1 Scotland, #1 Poland, #3 Britain, #3 France, #10 Spain, #13 Germany, #2, #9, #17, #18 U.S.A. - depending
on which official chart you follow), BMG have appointed a new Executive who does not want another Morrissey
album. Instead, the new BMG Executive has announced new plans for 'diversity' within BMG's artist roster, and
all projected BMG Morrissey releases/reissues have been scrapped.

"This news is perfectly in keeping with the relentless galvanic horror of 2020," said Morrissey, "we would be critically insane to expect anything positive."

Morrissey is once again in search of a new label willing to release his music.

"My three albums with BMG have been the best of my career, and I stand by them till death. Recording them has been a pivotal period in my life, and I thank the previous BMG team and everyone involved for that. It's still important to me to do music my own way, and I wouldn't want to be on a label that dictates so specifically how their artists should behave - especially when the word 'talent' is notably never mentioned."

Morrissey's duet with David Bowie is now available on Parlophone via Warner.

"There are too many cases of successful artists languishing at labels who are no longer interested in them." Alistair Norbury, BMG.

Morrissey's Las Vegas residency remains in place for 2021.

above quotes collected by V.Pearson for M.Central.
full interview will be printed shortly.

Perhaps there were talks of a new contract with BMG when this one ended, which have not come to fruition, hence the being dropped reference. His contract was fulfilled apart from proposed reissues. Another ending in 2020 so soon after his mothers death. At least the tone is defiant which is a good sign.