Morrissey says new album ‘Bonfire of Youngsters’ is “the trendy model of The Smiths’ ‘The Queen is Useless’”

Morrissey has spoken about his unreleased album ‘Bonfire Of Youngsters’ and why it nonetheless hasn’t seen the sunshine of day, describing the document as “the trendy model” of The Smiths‘ 1986 album ‘The Queen is Useless’.

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‘Bonfire Of Youngsters’ was recorded between 2020 and 2021 and had been introduced for a 2023 launch on Capitol, however nonetheless hasn’t been launched owing to his departure from the label in 2022. Earlier this 12 months, he mentioned he purchased again the rights again to that document, in addition to his 2014 album ‘World Peace Is None Of Your Enterprise’.

Morrissey claimed in September in an interview with The Telegraph that he had been “gagged” over the discharge of the album, blaming what he referred to as “Fool Tradition” for the intensive delays.

“There isn’t a arts media anymore in England, due to this fact there’s nobody to whom I can sit and speak about this,” he claimed. “The actual fact is, real artists in England are actually being held hostage by individuals who object to any method of other opinion.”

The artist gave a uncommon interview with the author Fiona Dodwell on Medium the place he went into extra element about why ‘Bonfire Of Youngsters’ nonetheless hasn’t come out.

“There are two albums, as you understand,” he mentioned, the opposite being ‘With out Music, The World Dies’. “The second was re-recorded in France in late 2023, and given a brand new title. We scrapped half of the tracks and we recorded six new ones, and so it’s not the album from the start of 2023.”

Morrissey then mentioned: “Labels say that they’re each unbelievable high-quality pop albums however they are saying that they’ll’t launch them as a result of they don’t need the wrath of The Guardian making their lives hell. The harassment marketing campaign in opposition to me by The Guardian is worldwide information now, and it’s efficient within the sense that labels don’t wish to grow to be concerned with this Gotcha! Journalism.”

Requested what he means by ‘Gotcha! Journalism’, he defined: “It’s a type of very annoying scholar politics the place sure publications select their enemies they usually then determine that every part that’s mentioned by Morrissey, or whoever, should seem like an issue. For that reason alone I’m considerably blacklisted in England.

“I feel it was early 2020 when my mom heard a Radio 4 interview with the editor of The Guardian during which the editor mentioned ‘We’ve a giant downside within the U.Ok. with harassment,’ and my mom screamed on the radio: ‘Sure! created by YOU!’”

He continued: “The issue is that I’ve at all times been an exponent of free speech. I can’t truly communicate another method. However now that free speech has been criminalized all through England and Eire the individuals who depend on it are being shut down…

“To be cancelled is the trendy model of lynching, isn’t it? And behind the scenes, your livelihood, your skill to outlive, your relationships with whomever you’re employed with, are all quietly attacked with the intention to now not perform. There hasn’t ever been a correct research of the extent of cancel tradition and the way deeply and viciously it goes. It isn’t a dramatic exaggeration to say that people who find themselves cancelled are privately pushed to the purpose of suicide.

“And for what? Within the hope that the whole nation loves the identical music, the identical books, the identical comedy, the identical politics, the identical movies? This will by no means occur! ‘Bonfire of Youngsters’ is the trendy model of ‘The Queen is Useless’, however the truth that no label will launch it is a sign of how childlike and frightened the music trade has grow to be.”

In the identical interview, Morrissey defined why he needed The Smiths to reunite for a reside tour, claiming that it wasn’t to do with “any emotional attachment” he has to his former bandmate Johnny Marr regardless of the pair’s ongoing feud.

Over the summer season, the previous frontman of the enduring Manchester group mentioned he had agreed to a “profitable” 2025 Smiths tour – however alleged that Marr “ignored” the supply.

Later, a consultant from the guitarist’s administration crew referred to as Morrissey’s remark “incorrect” in an announcement on X/Twitter. “I didn’t ignore the supply – I mentioned no,” Marr wrote in his personal message.

“I agreed as a result of it felt just like the final time such a factor can be doable,” he  revealed.

“We’ve all begun to develop outdated. I believed the tour that was provided can be a great way of claiming thanks for many who have listened for what abruptly looks like a lifetime. It wasn’t as a result of I had any emotional attachment to Marr. I’ve completely none.”

When requested how he seen Marr right now, Morrissey replied: “He appears to me to be simply as insecure and fearful as he was in the course of the Eighties.

“However he positive factors extra press adoration by pretending to be the Smiths gatekeeper and custodian in isolation, and so long as he’s sitting in a nook complaining about me he has a pedestal which might disappear within the occasion of a reunion.”

Morrissey continued: “He claims to seek out me fully indigestible, however each time he walks onto a stage he sings my lyrics, my vocal melodies and my music titles. Is that this hypocrisy or self-deception?

“He has compelled individuals to decide on between Morrissey and Marr, and I’ve had nearly sufficient of his bitchslap feedback. I’ve quietly put up with them for over 30 years.”