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Disgraceful is allowing fans to harass Capitol Records staff.
Hi insider, why do you come here? Just go away and f*** yourself just as uncle skinny and all the other haters
I come here to discuss Morrisseys career on a Morrissey forum. (Graciously kept going by David T for 27 years despite also being a victim of M’s cruelness) 95% of what I’m saying has nothing to do with my recent experiences, it comes from my watching this show daily for 34 seasons and being able to plot trajectories.Hi insider, why do you come here? Just go away and f*** yourself just as uncle skinny and all the other haters
I think you really do have to reach out to the fans all the time and keep them engaged. Morrissey doesn't do that, he has no vehicle for promotion and he could so easily put his own team together.
He was at 114k insta followers end of July when management was actively reposting stories and doing various anniversary posts. Just that got his followers up to 133k by mid sept when he fired management (and where it still sits now) Followers = reach, and if you really can’t be bothered to make ser repost stories once a day to keep engagement up, what are you even doing? He also doesn’t have an email list for christs sake.
Do you mean email for mailing list, because he does need that and an email as a way to get in touch with him or someone who is part of his team. When I used to do this, we were constantly thinking of ways to engage the fans, it only took a few people and the manager didn't even have to get involved, we would just report what we were doing, we would run new ideas by the manager so no one was out there going rogue, but it's totally doable. I was a contact person so I got a lot of questions, interview requests, press pass/photo pass requests. interview requests, guest list requests, we had contests for guest list, ticket giveaways - this is very easy stuff and it leaves the manager free to do other things.
No list of fan emails. Even if he had one, what would he do with it? He came up in the label system and just doesn’t know what to do besides go out on stage and hope people are there every night. He seems to have checked out around 2012, before social became as important as it is now. All it takes is reposting stories a few times a day and posting release/tv appearance anniversaries. Christ, imagine what would happen if he took 10 minutes out of his busy schedule every week and just posted a 60 second video talking about music, or what it was like recording Vauxhall, or if Panic really is about Jimmy Saville? Give people something to talk about other than a lapel pin, and they will forget about the lapel pin.
Well, now that I think about it, I wouldn't want his obits and weird stuff he posts coming to my email, so scratch that.
Which is essentially why I’m here talking. I got a peek behind the curtain and can confirm it is as much of a behinds the scenes clusterf*** as I feared. Someone could run his Instagram effectively and only even open the app while on the toilet. That’s how easy it is, and he still just does not give a cluck.
It's true tho, a few posts would do it. I estimated I put in 10-20 hours a week depending on what was going on, this band toured a lot so there was a lot to do, but for someone like Morrissey who doesn't tour that much, it would be much easier. Then you get the personality problems and I honestly believe I dealt with someone who was even more difficult than Morrissey, it was a nightmare. There was a huge turnover there.
For someone with a deep knowledge of his career*, scheduling and pulling the content together for a months worth of anniversary posts would only take a few hours a month
Different strokes. As it happens, my strokes are always a lighter touch than even the softest feather. Lighter than air.I was going to suggest taking fewer drugs.
