Never one to stay quiet in times of political division, Morrissey discussed affairs on both sides of the Atlantic this week, when he spoke with Australia’s FasterLouder during his tour there, earlier this week.
The Ex-Smiths frontman described the results of June’s referendum as being “magnificent,” having previously taken aim at the British media for the victimisation of those who voted to leave the European Union. He accused media outlets like the BBC of “persistently smear people who voted Leave… almost condemning such people as being irresponsible, drunken racists. Yet the BBC have not ever questioned the Remain voters” suggesting that they were “not giving us news at all, but they are attempting to influence us with their own opinions, which is not the moral duty of any news network.”
Morrissey then drew parallels to the state of American politics: “The same can be said for the USA. […] although politicians do not and cannot change, the people the world over have changed. What could be more grotesquely stupid than the Clinton-Trump coverage?” He then suggested that both American and British news services like the BBC, Sky, and Fox News “all depend on public stupidity in order to create their own myth of reality. Watch them at your peril!”
In the same interview, the singer also discussed his health, following news in 2014 that he had undergone several cancer treatments ““I think [cancer treatment] has slowed me down considerably because doctors and hospitals and medications are actually very ageing in their way, and they can often exhaust you more than whatever medical problem you have […] If I’m asked to give any more blood I think I’ll crack up.”
Morrissey’s unorthodox attitudes to mortality are well documented, and when first disclosing information about his treatment to El Mundo in 2014 he said “If I die, then I die. And if I don’t, then I don’t. Right now I feel good. I am aware that in some of my recent photos I look somewhat unhealthy, but that’s what illness can do. I’m not going to worry about that, I’ll rest when I’m dead.”
