Morrissey is set to release a new record that he has declared to be the “best album” of his life.
The former Smiths frontman has put out a public appeal for a record label to release Bonfire of Teenagers through.
“Morrissey is unsigned,” reads the announcement post on his website. “The new album is available to the highest (or lowest) bidder.”
“The worst year of my life concludes with the best album of my life,” he added.
It seems Morrissey could be referring to the fact that he was dropped from former label BMI in 2020 after it was taken over by new management. His most recent album, I Am Not A Dog On A Chain, was released through BMI in March last year.
“BMG have appointed a new Executive who does not want another Morrissey album,” he wrote on his website at the time.
“Instead, the new BMG Executive has announced new plans for ‘diversity’ within BMG’s artist roster, and all projected BMG Morrissey releases/reissues have been scrapped.”
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Alternatively, he could also be referencing his recent beef with The Simpsons for its thinly-veiled parody of him.
The episode ‘Panic On The Streets of Springfield’ featured Benedict Cumberbatch as the voice of ‘Quilloughby’, a depressed British singer and frontman of ‘The Snuffs’ who began to derail as he aged.
Shortly after the episode aired, Morrissey’s manager called out the show for portraying him as an “overweight racist”, while Morrissey himself threatened to sue.
“The hatred shown towards me from the creators of The Simpsons is obviously a taunting lawsuit, but one that requires more funding than I could possibly muster in order to make a challenge,” he wrote in a statement.
“Neither do I have a determined business squad of legal practitioners ready to pounce.”
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