Morrissey (Lancashire, 1959), a British icon who appeared in The Smiths, is back. Even when returning Makeup is a lie (Sire Records / Warner), which is releasing this live release six years without releasing a full albumconnect without too much noise, something inappropriate from it.
There is a time that practically stopped giving interviews, here is a question curb this verbal incontinence who gave the title to one of his great songs, ‘Bigmouth Strikes Again’, and who did it more than once. In one of the most recent interviews recorded in the book by Spanish journalist Carlos Pérez de Ziriza Morrissey and Smith. So much for the respondent (Efe Eme, 2024), the artist covered his silence related to the impossibility of releasing an album that is ready after 2021, Teenage fire: “They’ve had five traumatic years. Are they still alive? I’m not safe.”
Morrissey has insisted for years that the music industry has turned his back on him. This record album has its origins in a major dispute with Capitol Records: in April 2024, it announced that it would end the battle by buying the backs of two of its records, World peace is none of your business (2014) Teenage fireto whom the same is referred to as the great “master teacher”.
Conceived starting with the 2017 attack in Manchester, where 22 people died as a result of an Ariana Grande concert, Morrissey described the event as “the UK’s 11-S”, a definition that has been criticized each time by the artist. tied to reactionary parties and xenophobic, racist and Islamophobic ideas.
From now on the latest album I’m not a dog on a chain (2020), featured her on Jimmy Fallon’s show wearing a badge from the extreme British party For Britain Movement.
The record company decided not to release it due to the fact that it included collaborations with Iggy Pop and Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), but also Miley Cyrus at first, who eventually left the album.
In 2023, the musician started a new job with Joe Chiccarelli in the French studios of La Fabrique. First, the title was introduced Without music the world is dyingthen he started calling You’re right, it’s time y, through various retreats and changes of planes, It’s the album that finally shines with ‘You’re Right, It’s Time’, which became the album’s opening song.
Recent signing with Sire Records —sat with the signed, 30-year-old, who was inspired by The Smiths in the last day bands like the Talking Heads or the Ramones – however, he unlocked at least part of his record cap Teenage fire Next, I’m looking at the cajón for now.
You can relax in this hot climate Makeup is a lie an album in which Morrissey once again presents himself as he presents himself someone who finds himself in an industry, a press, and a time that is against him. Make-up, another mask to be socially accepted, is here transformed into a metaphor for everything that is therefore a deception and self-portrait of a marginalized artist.
Permanent plot status filters into these new letters, many of which were co-written with members of their current bandand is condensed mainly into ‘Notre-Dame’, whence from the understanding that the Paris Cathedral fire was caused. “Notre-Dame, we know who intends to sing, we will not be called,” says the singer. In live versions where the song was featured, included mentioned “terrorism”a sentence that finally disappeared from the official record, replaced by the more ambiguous “nothing to see here”.
Still, Morrissey, without giving up his pose drama queen, I also try to reflect on the legacy and my desire to become a caricature of myself (“You’re right, it’s time”), and express his well-known love and hate for music criticism (with Lester Bangs as one of his great protagonists).
Morrissey is expected to launch the album in Spain next year on March 12th in Valencia, 14th in Zaragoza and 16th in Seville. The bend to which are referred to in red tour cancellation, Yes, the singer attends more concerts than he does. Without exaggeration, Morrissey has more than 350 cancellations in his entire career.
The last time I was presented to a Spanish audience was in June 2025, at the Madrid Night del Botánico, due to severe sinusitis reported 24 hours after the concert.
All Latin American records will also be canceled from now on “extreme agony”and set out to 2026, canceling and postponing his first shows in California for an “adverse drug reaction.” He is currently on the first legs of a European tour (London, Hamburg, Rotterdam), but with Moz he will never know.
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