who is this athosique,handing out thumbs downs like confetti at a wedding,at least contribute so we know where you stand.
hi there, sorry if my reactions hurt you in any way, I'm too lazy to look up what exactly I didn't like but thumb down for me = dislike / not agreeing with someone without obligation to confront them about their opinion. I thought this was the purpose of this reaction on the forum.
I don't really want to share my opinion on the news since the thread is already bloated with 23 pages of everyone's opinions, but if you insist...
Morrissey did Johnny wrong by manipulating the last paragraph of the message with half-truths like "Marr supports New Order, but I, on the other hand, is getting ready to embark on the successful, sold out NA tour" (when in fact Morrissey's only got a handful of dates in beautiful, moderately sized venues and it is the Marr who's doing a 20+ dates tour of the US soon and has only a guest appearance at a New Order gig). This unprovoked bitchiness wasn't "witty" or "funny" to me, and I can't understand how people on here can endorse this kind of behaviour without realising that this stubbornness and desire to always be "superior" or the "ultimate victim" is what got M to where he is now (I'm not talking about you but my text might explain why I downvoted some of the messages here).
What's the latest shit show shows us about Morrissey & Marr is that, I think, they have some fundamental differences they need to overcome first before attempting any work together.
The Farage pic on Johnny's Twitter? It's the old news from 2018 and shows how disconnected Marr is from Morrissey.
Morrissey's quick response to The Smiths reunion without understanding why Marr chose to ignore that? Also shows how disconnected they are from each other: if Marr was open to the idea of a reunion 15 years ago, that doesn't he'd want to do it now.
What they need is some private, one-on-one communication to prevent further embarrassment that's been going on since Moz's open letter. (because of that I disliked some messages where people very laughing about Morrissey's remarks, calling Marr shite, this whole situation "a war", saying Morrissey is The Smiths, etc... not sure if you're one of them, but I apologise nonetheless).
I think I wrote enough, tl:dr is basically it seems clear that they both (Moz & Marr) don't understand each other at all, which is unsurprising, considering the lack of communication for the last 15 years, but I don't understand why we here need to take any stances and, of all things, claim that one of them is hypocritical for playing The Smiths music without changing lyrics first (for Marr), or without changing music (for Morrissey), it's their shared legacy and they can whatever they want with it, they don't own us anything now. Again, I'm not sure why I might've downvoted some of your messages in the first place lol, I remember usually agreeing with you (and giving thumbs ups) in the setlist threads, but maybe my tirade might help you understand where we're disagreeing.
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