Morrissey’s ‘Bonfire of Teenagers’ Exposes Pop Treachery - by Armond White.
Excerpt:
"Against feckless public response to tragedy, Morrissey pinpoints the thoughtless way pop culture can be misused to anesthetize the populace. This is as challenging as “The National Front Disco” except that the new tune elegizes youth culture’s demise. Its solemnity brings back that woeful moment when Rolling Stone’s inexcusable August 1, 2013, cover glamorized Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a precursor to the British press’s absolving of Salman Abedi. Morrissey’s chorus of “Go easy on the killer” seethes with righteous anger."
Morrissey’s ‘Bonfire of Teenagers’ Exposes Pop Treachery | National Review
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