morrissey = the new david byrne
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poptimistsok usually when i do this kind of thing i frame the question fast and badly (or i wd never frame it at all) and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
koganbot becomes testy towards my fuzziness
but here is MY "explanation" of morrissey = he brought something to the boywing of britrock = called CAMP -- as in polari, as in an angry bitchy code against the UNSTYLISH USELESSNESS of the STRAIGHTS -- except that, since he wz militantly coy abt his sexuality (korrektly, as "coming out" would have stripped a powerful ambiguity out of what he wz doin), his camp was developed as a kind of MALE HET camp...
ANYWAY -- i have always bin ambivalent abt camp as an attitude (it's quickwitted and funny but it's also a compensatory attitude adopted by those who take themselves to be victims and are sniping secretly back...)
and given the shifts since the mid-80s in fashions in sexuality and within sexuality blah blah, i think morrissey's STYLE (sex! yes! but not for me...) reveals itself as a lot more reactionary a-and larkinesque than it did at the time
(again i feel i have not got at the nubbin of what i'm on about but have at it anyway)
koganbot becomes testy towards my fuzziness but here is MY "explanation" of morrissey = he brought something to the boywing of britrock = called CAMP -- as in polari, as in an angry bitchy code against the UNSTYLISH USELESSNESS of the STRAIGHTS -- except that, since he wz militantly coy abt his sexuality (korrektly, as "coming out" would have stripped a powerful ambiguity out of what he wz doin), his camp was developed as a kind of MALE HET camp...
ANYWAY -- i have always bin ambivalent abt camp as an attitude (it's quickwitted and funny but it's also a compensatory attitude adopted by those who take themselves to be victims and are sniping secretly back...)
and given the shifts since the mid-80s in fashions in sexuality and within sexuality blah blah, i think morrissey's STYLE (sex! yes! but not for me...) reveals itself as a lot more reactionary a-and larkinesque than it did at the time
(again i feel i have not got at the nubbin of what i'm on about but have at it anyway)
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Re: REPOSTED FROM ORIGINAL PAZZ & JOP THREAD
Date: 2006-09-22 11:50 am (UTC)"Girls like the Smiths" = "girls have terrible terrible taste in men"! It is the same thing as girls nowadays going crazy for Bright Eyes or someone.
Re: REPOSTED FROM ORIGINAL PAZZ & JOP THREAD
Date: 2006-09-22 11:58 am (UTC)have you ever read dan rebello's "1956 and all that"? it's about the kitchen sink moment in theatre esp., and how it swept in after noel coward and "changed everything" --- i think it's REALLY REALLY fascinating on the pro and con of these various issues
it even sort of jigsaws in w.the brady-hindley stuff -- maybe i should write something abt it one day
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