F. Dodwell / Music-News: "New Morrissey track Bonfire of Teenagers: It's okay to be angry about injustice" (July 6, 2022)

New Morrissey track Bonfire of Teenagers: It's okay to be angry about injustice.

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While the Mancunian Oasis anthem 'Don't Look Back In Anger' (which is mentioned in the song lyrics) can perhaps be soothing to many at such a time, Morrissey instead takes his listeners aside and assures them that yes, it is absolutely okay to be angry about this; yes, sometimes anger is a very normal, human response to hurt, pain, death and tragedy.

New Morrissey track Bonfire of Teenagers: It's okay to be angry about injustice

The new track from upcoming Morrissey album, Bonfire of Teenagers, has everybody talking and shows fans the artist

www.music-news.com

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FWD.

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See also the NME story, link posted by several:

Morrissey debuts new song 'Bonfire Of Teenagers', about Manchester Arena bombing

Morrissey has debuted new song 'Bonfire Of Teenagers' – a track he says is about "England's 9/11", the Manchester Arena bombing.

www.nme.com

 

[nicky wire's legs]

k-ket is wonky. that vest looks amazing!

 

[Anonymous]

Counterpoint

On Morrissey.

When Salman Abedi walked into Manchester Arena on May 22 2017 and detonated a bomb killing 22 innocent people, the city felt it perhaps seen its greatest atrocity in living memory. Fast forward fi…

williamitwasreallysomethingblog.wordpress.com

 

[marred]

I think we focused too much on the terrorist attacks in Manchester. The song is about it of course, but I think the message is more universal. It is not only Don't look back in anger, it is also Lennon's Imagine, drawing with chalk on the sidewalks after many other terrorist attacks. These are nice gestures, but they won't fix the world .

Lennon's song Imagine is the woke ramblings of a child. In this day and age he'd be an insufferable prick. One could argue he had a head start on it and Julian Lennon could testify to it.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

There is absolutely zero indication he is jealous of Oasis or Liam, there isn't any reason to be.

Except for the massive album sales, the sold out mega gigs, the relevance to people of all ages, the wit, the love they receive from everyone from the media to regular people, the songs… And I’m mainly speaking of Liam now.

 

[Redacted]

Except for the massive album sales, the sold out mega gigs, the relevance to people of all ages, the wit, the love they receive from everyone from the media to regular people, the songs… And I’m mainly speaking of Liam now.

I am not really sure why you think I want to debate this, when someone asks Morrissey if he is jealous of Oasis and Liam and he says yes, get back to me. This mind reading stuff is really very tedious. When I hear it from his own lips, I will believe it.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

I am not really sure why you think I want to debate this, when someone asks Morrissey if he is jealous of Oasis and Liam and he says yes, get back to me. This mind reading stuff is really very tedious. When I hear it from his own lips, I will believe it.

Sure, I’m just saying that there are things one could be jealous of.

 

[Redacted]

Sure, I’m just saying that there are things one could be jealous of.

 

[Fake C]

It’s not surprising and not hard to imagine that a parent that has just lost their child would be angry if someone told them through song to not be angry to just move on.

Maybe they would rather be told the death of their child is nothing compared to what happens at McDonald’s every day.

 

[Anonymous]

Except for the massive album sales, the sold out mega gigs, the relevance to people of all ages, the wit, the love they receive from everyone from the media to regular people, the songs… And I’m mainly speaking of Liam now.

Yes, why else bring up the Oasis song in the lyrics with such disdain? I hope someone asks Liam or Noel about this, they will probably have something funny to say.

 

[Redacted]

I think the don't look back in anger thing is unrealistic. Anger is part of the 5 stages of grief, you need to go through it to heal.
There are a lot of things to get angry about here, like how the bomber had been on the radar for a while and someone even declined to turn him in for fear of being seen as racist. If that doesn't make you seethe with rage, I don't know what could. We are far too concerned with being politically correct than preventing terrorist attacks.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Yes, why else bring up the Oasis song in the lyrics with such disdain? I hope someone asks Liam or Noel about this, they will probably have something funny to say.

Liam, surely. Noel will probably be very disappointed to find that one of his all-time biggest heroes dismissed his song and what it has meant to people after the tragedy that happened. Either that or he won’t give a shit, knowing Moz.

 

[BrokenFrame]

Liam, surely. Noel will probably be very disappointed to find that one of his all-time biggest heroes dismissed his song and what it has meant to people after the tragedy that happened. Either that or he won’t give a shit, knowing Moz.

He didn't dismiss the song itself, but the way it was used by people.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

He didn't dismiss the song itself, but the way it was used by people.

That’s probably correct. Let’s scratch that part, then.

 

[Anonnnnnn]

He didn't dismiss the song itself, but the way it was used by people.

Same difference, he called it out by name. No one’s going to make that nuanced distinction. It’s a diss.

 

[Ketchup]

That’s probably correct. Let’s scratch that part, then.

At long last, the penny doth drop.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

At long last, the penny doth drop.

My problem was never with Morrissey possibly criticising the song. My problem was with him calling those that came together and grieved “morons”.

 

[snoddywilko]

My problem was never with Morrissey possibly criticising the song. My problem was with him calling those that came together and grieved “morons”.

Surely it’s been clear for the past 40 years that Morrissey is a massive misanthrope who thinks almost every human that has ever walked the Earth is a moron.

As Noel said after drinking with Moz for an evening in L.A (& being made to pay the tab): “He hasn’t got a nice word to say about ANYONE!”

 

[marred]

Except for the massive album sales, the sold out mega gigs, the relevance to people of all ages, the wit, the love they receive from everyone from the media to regular people, the songs… And I’m mainly speaking of Liam now.

And yes that is Liam's connection and Morrissey has his with is fandom. Are we really going to compare fandoms as if we're in some sort of allegiance race? On one hand Liam could fill an arena the size of a small nation if we're talking bums on seats, but if those bums have brains then it's Morrissey who they're turning to for songs that may save their lives.

 

[marred]

Surely it’s been clear for the past 40 years that Morrissey is a massive misanthrope who thinks almost every human that has ever walked the Earth is a moron.

As Noel said after drinking with Moz for an evening in L.A (& being made to pay the tab): “He hasn’t got a nice word to say about ANYONE!”

And that's why we love him. Polite people are boring. They never say what they mean.

 

[Janice]

The usual suspects on other platforms are quick to praise Fiona. To a point they’re almost suffocating in her backside. The same people also proclaim all recent gigs to be the bestest in whole wide world EVER️