Dear god Morrisey is insufferable. George, on the other hand, is a sweetheart <3
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I was never a huge George Michael fan, but I remember reading how one recording session everybody left except for one engineer, so George had him show how to use the equipment so George could make a song from start to finish by himself. That song ended up being "Everything She Wants", and he used the same approach for "Last Christmas". After that he didn't need to be in Wham, he was pretty much his own artist. I really respect that, it's the same kind of thing that Prince and Trent Reznor did.
I wasn't a big fan of WAM or George Michael generally, but I do have mad respect for the man. He wasn't just talented but also introspective, intelligent, genuine, and much deeper than his pop star sheen gave away.
He's beyond arrogant and pushed it all the way to beyond stupid.
Racist, pro-brexit, anti-vaxx... you name it, this wanker living in LA has all the british trappings of hashtag-maga.
Absolutely. So disconnected from his roots and the things that made him popular that he was looking to sell off the rights to his catalog as well. Because for all his blathering about Ian Curtis and his singing/lyrics lacking emotion and not being genuine. All because Morrissey was projecting.
You aren't kidding. I think Morrissey would be happier dead, which is all the more sad that he's still alive and George Michael isn't.
I Would be Happier Dead sounds like a Morrissey song
Don't it though
Morrisey has a punchable face.
George Michael touching on the "fascist" element of Joy Division...
They did invoke some of the paraphernalia or fetishism - "y'all forgot about Rudolf Hess", who was the subject of their song "Warsaw", at the beginning and end they recite Hess's prison serial number - and their name itself was the name of a brothel frequented by nazis, we are told.
But that doesn't mean the lads were fascist, at all. Their city still had many visible scars of the blitzes thirty years prior, the seeming total defeat and trial of the nazis was still a personal issue in Manchester, "personal" as in "payback time, mΒ°fΒ°s", plus it all made for an epic, edgy and morbid spectacle.
Curtis worked at a government health clinic, treating epilepsy patients, that's what the lyrics for "She's Lost Control" are about, and that type of government is not the kind of work one can associate with a fascist mindset.
I feel like Joy Division certainly did flirt with fascist imagery. I wasn't around at the time, but I'm aware that within punk and post-punk there was the idea of stripping meaning and power from controversial imagery and symbolism by overtly using and subverting that imagery. Arguably, I don't think that approach worked. But I feel a large part of the way bands like Joy Division used this was based on that ideal. The band name was deliberately taken from the name of a sexual slavery wing of a Nazi concentration camp, though.
Also, I think Curtis was a bit of a contrarian. It seems like he enjoyed getting a rise out of people and the establishment at the time.