For once, Morrissey has a point. Following the tragic death of Sinéad O'Connor, the singer penned his own eulogy to the singer — condemning the press and music CEOs whose accolades have come "too late."
Taking to his ever-famous "Messages from Morrissey" board, the ex-Smiths frontman celebrated the late singer's life while calling out the hypocrisy of other's tributes.
"She had proud vulnerability… and there is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don't 'fit in' (this I know only too well), and they are never praised until death — when, finally, they can't answer back," Morrissey penned. "The cruel playpen of fame gushes with praise for Sinéad today… with the usual moronic labels of 'icon' and 'legend.'"
He continued:
You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. You hadn't the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you. The press will label artists as pests because of what they withhold… and they would call Sinéad sad, fat, shocking, insane… oh but not today! Music CEOs who had put on their most charming smile as they refused her for their roster are queuing-up to call her a "feminist icon," and 15-minute celebrities and goblins from hell and record labels of artificially aroused diversity are squeezing onto Twitter to twitter their jibber-jabber… when it was YOU who talked Sinéad into giving up… because she refused to be labelled, and she was degraded, as those few who move the world are always degraded.
Of course, Moz still had to find a way to relate this all back to cancel culture: "Tomorrow the fawning fops flip back to their online shitposts and their cozy cancer culture and their moral superiority and their obituaries of parroted vomit… all of which will catch you lying on days like today… when Sinéad doesn't need your sterile slop."
The rest of Morrissey's eulogy can be read on his website.
O'Connor died yesterday (July 26) at her London home. She was 56.
Taking to his ever-famous "Messages from Morrissey" board, the ex-Smiths frontman celebrated the late singer's life while calling out the hypocrisy of other's tributes.
"She had proud vulnerability… and there is a certain music industry hatred for singers who don't 'fit in' (this I know only too well), and they are never praised until death — when, finally, they can't answer back," Morrissey penned. "The cruel playpen of fame gushes with praise for Sinéad today… with the usual moronic labels of 'icon' and 'legend.'"
He continued:
You praise her now ONLY because it is too late. You hadn't the guts to support her when she was alive and she was looking for you. The press will label artists as pests because of what they withhold… and they would call Sinéad sad, fat, shocking, insane… oh but not today! Music CEOs who had put on their most charming smile as they refused her for their roster are queuing-up to call her a "feminist icon," and 15-minute celebrities and goblins from hell and record labels of artificially aroused diversity are squeezing onto Twitter to twitter their jibber-jabber… when it was YOU who talked Sinéad into giving up… because she refused to be labelled, and she was degraded, as those few who move the world are always degraded.
Of course, Moz still had to find a way to relate this all back to cancel culture: "Tomorrow the fawning fops flip back to their online shitposts and their cozy cancer culture and their moral superiority and their obituaries of parroted vomit… all of which will catch you lying on days like today… when Sinéad doesn't need your sterile slop."
The rest of Morrissey's eulogy can be read on his website.
O'Connor died yesterday (July 26) at her London home. She was 56.
