Johnny, as brilliant a musician as he is, isn't the focus of attention like Morrissey has always been; and I think that for all kinds of reasons Johnny just won't put up with his secondary role anymore, not secondary to Morrissey anyway. It's just a massively fraught, antagonistic relationship they have now - they both resent and envy each other and all that has poisoned the affection they once had for one another.
NB. I'm not taking sides here - the two of them are as bad (and as good) as each other. Just as they've always been.
But do you really think this is how Johnny would see it? That he has, or that he is perceived by people to have, only a secondary tole? Johnny knows how talented he is, and he has a very enthusiastic fanbase in his own right. Isn’t projecting onto him that he would see himself only in a “secondary role” doing him a bit of a disservice?
I’m sure he has some chips on his shoulders, don’t all humans? But he is firstly and formostly a guitarist and musician, not a singer. It’s not “secondary”, unless the sole ambition is to be the sole frontman. I don’t think it would necessarily be fair for anyone to make the assumption that Johnny’s sole ambition, is to be the sole fromtman.
I do sincerely think he took a very wrong turn there awhile back, when he took his goody-two-shoes-
ness one step too far at the point that he agreed with the press, made and inferred the negative comments toward and about Morrissey, and the just purely awful thing of his kid. For someone who clearly prides himself on getting along with everyone, all of that was a big, big misstep, and completely unneccesary. But people can forgive each other for missteps. I think he just got momentarily carried away a bit.
However the last part of what you wrote, I hope is completely untrue. I hope that’s not how they feel about each other at all. Guys can be really kind of
jabby in the way they interact with each other, and I wouldn’t necessarily project a negative spin on that kind of dynmanic either. The
dynamic of sonething can be specific to two people, or specific and applicable sometimes only to one single conversation, or anything in between. Dynamics can also change. Nothing stays the same between any two people forever, because the dynamic will continue to evolve into something new. Everything moves forward all the time.
If you want to get right down to the bones of something, one fact that seems fairly constant is that ultimately, all human relationships are driven forward in some way, by conflict.
The other interesting thing, which is also a
great thing, is that no two human beings are only the sum of their particularities.
There is always so,
so much more.
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