Morrissey

2년 전 모리시 내한공연에 갔었다 (관련글: http://blog.daum.net/park_eunice/2110)

내한공연 보고난 후 그림도 그렸다 ㅎㅎㅎ (관련글: http://blog.daum.net/park_eunice/472)

Morrissey와 그의 음악을 잘 알아서 갔던 건 아니지만 
다시 내한 안 하실 거 같아서 부랴부랴 갔었고 그 때 다녀오길 잘 했단 생각이 든다.
가장 처음 Morrissey의 보컬을 영접한 곡은 바로 이 곡.

The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want

원래 이곡은 1984년 발매된 싱글 'William, It Was Really Nothing'의 b-side였다고 하는데
내가 이 곡을 처음 들었던 것은 영화 [Pretty In Pink] OST였다. 레코드판으로 지금도 갖고 있다.
아마 고딩 시절이었나...? 집 마루에 있는 전축으로 레코드를 들었던 기억이 지금도 난다.

이후 Morrissey라는 이름으로 접한 이 곡.
Morrissey - The More You Ignore Me The Close I Get

이 곡은 어느 compilation album에서 들었던 것 같다. Radiohead 곡도 수록된 컴필레이션 앨범이었던 걸로 기억한다.

Morrissey의 보컬은 정말 매력적이다. 그의 보컬을 '수려하다'고 표현하고싶다 ㅎㅎㅎ
무슨 노래를 부르든 그가 부르면 다 들어줄 수 있을 정도로.

The Smiths 곡들 중에 몇 곡은 좋아해서 오래 전에 다운도 받아놓고 했었는데...
아마 지금도 컴퓨터 어딘가에 MP3가 있을 것임 ㅎㅎㅎ
Morrissey 내한 전에 급하게 공부(?) 하느라 벅스에서 Greatest Hits 앨범 딱 하나 사서 들었었다.

목소리가 너무 매력적이라 넋놓고 듣게 된다는 ㅋㅋㅋ

<<Morrissey 위키 정보>>

Steven Patrick Morrissey (born 22 May 1959), commonly known by his last name, Morrissey, is an English singer and lyricist. He rose to prominence in the 1980s as the lyricist and vocalist of the band The Smiths. The band was highly successful in the United Kingdom but broke up in 1987, and Morrissey began a solo career, making the top ten of the UK Singles Chart on ten occasions. His first solo album, 1988's Viva Hate, entered the UK albums chart at number one.

He is widely regarded as an important innovator in the indie music scene; music magazine NME considers Morrissey to be one of the most influential artists ever", while The Independent says "most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status he has reached in his lifetime". In 2004, Pitchfork Media called him one of the most singular figures in Western popular culture from the last twenty years".

Morrissey's lyrics have been described as "dramatic, bleak, funny vignettes about doomed relationships, lonely nightclubs, the burden of the past and the prison of the home". He is also noted for his unusual baritone vocal style (though he sometimes uses falsetto), his quiff haircut and his dynamic live performances. Media controversies have been caused by his forthright and often contrarian opinions, and he has also attracted media attention for his advocacy of vegetarianism and animal rights. He describes himself in his autobiography as an animal protectionist.

뮤지션의 음악 외 사생활까지 파고들 필요는 없겠지만 그래도 궁금하다 이거야 ㅋㅋㅋ

<<위키백과 정보 on his sexuality>>

Morrissey's sexuality has been a matter of conjecture.

Encyclopædia Britannica states that he created a "compellingly conflicted persona (loudly proclaimed celibacy offset by coy hints of closeted homosexuality)" which has "made him a peculiar heartthrob".

In 1984, Morrissey stated that he refused "to recognise the terms hetero-, bi-, and homo-sexual" because "everybody has exactly the same sexual needs". A 1984 Smiths article in Rolling Stone claimed that Morrissey "admits he's gay", but Morrissey replied that it was news to him.

The speculation was further fuelled by the frequent references to gay subculture and slang in his lyrics. In 2006, Liz Hoggard from The Independent noted, only 15 years after homosexuality had been decriminalised, his lyrics flirted with every kind of gay subculture"; for example, she claims that "This Charming Man ... is about age-gap, gay sex". 

Reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine claims lyrics to the Smiths single "Hand in Glove", contain "veiled references to homosexuality". Throughout much of his career, he maintained in interviews that he was asexual and celibate. Johnny Marr stated in a 1984 interview that "Morrissey doesn't participate in sex at the moment and hasn't done so for a while. He's had a lot of girlfriends in the past and quite a few men friends".

In a 1997 interview, Morrissey revealed he had been in a relationship with someone for two years but that it had ended and the person in question had stopped loving him. He did not reveal the sex of his partner or whether it was a sexual relationship, but said he cared deeply for the person, and he hoped they had shared similar feelings. That person was revealed in Morrissey's autobiography to be Jake Walters.

In October 2013, Morrissey released a statement through his semi-official website, which said: "Unfortunately, I am not homosexual. In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course ... not many".

하... 참....내...
답답하지만 사생활이니 더 이상 파고들지 않겠습니다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 
나혼자 그냥 여태 읽은 내용 토대로 혼자 속으로만 판단하겠습니다 ㅋㅋㅋ 
나는 Morrissey가 게이든, 바이든 상관 안 함. 솔직히 말하자면 이성애자라면 오히려 실망할 지도 몰라요 ㅋㅋㅋ

<<내가 MP3로 갖고 있는 The Smiths 곡들 중 몇 개>>

Handsome Devil

Hatful of Hollow(1984) 앨범수록곡

There is A Light That Never Goes out

The Queen Is Dead(1986) 앨범수록곡

~Lyrics~
Take me out tonight
Where there's music and there's people
And they're young and alive
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one
Anymore
Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people and I
Want to see life
Driving in your car
Oh, please don't drop me home
Because it's not my home, it's their
Home, and I'm welcome no more
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine
Take me out tonight
Take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
(But then a strange fear gripped me and I
Just couldn't ask)
Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
Driving in your car
I never never want to go home
Because I haven't got one, da ...
Oh, I haven't got one
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure - the privilege is mine
Oh, There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out

Unhappy Birthday

Strangeways, Here We Come(1987) 앨범수록곡