Silence is not a bad thing. I would take Johnny's silence as he just does not want to be involved in this. To me, he seems a lot more relaxed than he did a few years ago, he seems to be having fun now. Why let anyone disturb his peace?
Maybe posting the Farage picture was not the best idea, but who knows what has happened behind the scenes, maybe he is just fed up with this entire reunion thing and people asking all the time and he wants to finally move on. He will be 61 soon, he probably just wants to live out the rest of his career doing gigs with friends and doing what he wants.
You can't go back, time moves forward with or without you. He seems to have decided he does not want Morrissey in his life and he has every single right to make that decision and he does not owe the fans anything at all. The Smiths are over and have been for almost 40 years. Imagine someone asking you to go back to a job you had 40 years ago that you hated and they just keep asking you. I am sure it has gotten very old.
Can you imagin touring with Morrissey? All the bitching. All the cancelations. All the problems with other people. The list is endless.
It’s not like that. I can’t believe i’m wasting my time even responding to this. “Imagine someone asking you to go back to a job you hated 40 years ago and they just keep asking you” is totally disingenuous, and a deliberately false equivalency.
Any great creative endeavour that you put your mind, and heart, and soul into can be an exhausting and grueling journey, even if it’s a labor of love. Sometimes after one great work, some artists/writers have never continued beyond that in their
metier ever again. This is not as uncommon as some people may think.
Relationships that are dependent on each other for that creative endeavor to reach its intended pinnacle, such as in a band collaboration, is going to place all kinds of additional emotional and personality pressures onto the fire - and that’s in addition to concrete, actual problems that human beings tend to each individually already cone with.
But when the end result is something magical and in hindsight clearly worth any strife because something so unique and so moving and so beautiful came out of the collective efforts and the stress and the disagreements, and the pressures, but of the good times too - then that is about as far away from “going back to a job you hated” that something can be.
People celebrate the Smiths every single day, 40 years on. Johnny’s lucky that Morrissey’s the bigger person, and it doesn’t matter what drove his “yes”, because what matters is that if they wanted to, the two of them could be at the helm of this ship together.
I hope Morrissey has many more opportunities to feel as celebrated and as appreciated as he should be, or however much he wishes to be.
And then i read endless comments like yours, because you're far from the only one, and it’s just like … people who want whatever the
opposite outcome is of whatever they think they perceive that Morrissey might want, … want some kind of disappointment for him, like it’s their
oxygen
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...who 'might' invite Rick Astley to join them on a few crowd-pleasers...I'm just reading the tea leaves, baby...no need to shout at me! ...
