But I can understand why people would love it. “But I guess when I wrote songs I tried to be more…positive and joyous. He’s singing about the absurdity of it all.” “Don’t you think the lyrics are really honest? I mean, haven’t you ever been angry at yourself for being nice to people you shouldn’t? That’s what Morrissey is saying. “…In my life, why do I smile at people who I’d much rather k ick in the eye.” We all burst out laughing. “There’s your hook right there,” Toni said, pointing her finger in the air. “…In my life, why do I give valuable time, to people who don’t care if I… live or die?” Morrissey’s voice leapt to a high falsetto on the last phrase. “I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I’m miserable now…” Toni leaned forward, listening intently. Michael put on the record and Morrissey’s voice, buoyed by Johnny Marr’s jangly guitars, filled my aunt’s sun-dappled kitchen. “That sounds like a song to start your day with.” “How about ‘Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now’?” Michael picked up the Smiths first album. Two minutes of Morrissey’s moaning through the interview was about the most any of us could take. “He’s probably talking about me when he refers to ‘repellent music'. “Most of the music today in the popular charts I find repellant,” he sighs, leaning a slender hand on his brow as though the mere thought of such repellant music is physically injurious to him. The interview began with Morrissey, looking especially thin and petulant, speaking directly into the camera. “Now you should hear Morrissey actually speak,” Michael explained, exchanging a knowing smile with me over the laptop. After watching that for a minute, Michael switched to another video, this one a 1986 interview of Morrissey from the cult MTV program, The Cutting Edge.
“He’s pretty animated.” Morrissey swayed and clutched the tangle of beads around his neck, artfully turning his face to the spotlight as he sang. A tangled bouquet of long-stemmed roses dangled from the back pocket of his jeans. Michael started the video and there was Morrissey, wheeling around in a loose blouse unbuttoned to his navel, kicking and waving his hands in the air. “Well, I was married to a strange guy so I’m used to it.” He just does and says whatever is on his mind, and doesn’t worry about how it comes off. “But he can be a little polarizing to some people.” “I think Morrissey’s style is great,” I said. So you can see what a Morrissey performance is like.” He cued up an mid-eighties video of the Smiths performing “ This Charming Man” on the laptop.
“Let’s start with a video of one of the Smith’s live performances. “Really? I have to hear that.” She is a life-long vegetarian, too. “The title song on that album is about a slaughterhouse.” “Morrissey is a very outspoken vegetarian,” I said.
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