It goes without saying, but it deserves to be said... and to be heard
- veradapozzo8
- 1 day ago
- 3 min read
I have found and read this article today and I am glad that Morrissey has read it, too.
As I am not on IG, I have no idea of what is the link below the article: I will ask a French friend about it later.
[Update: the IG reel is a video of a young bloke who plays the vocal part of This Charming Man on the bagpipes]
About the article, I do not understand why the author expresses surprise and curiosity about the Gen Z enjoying Morrissey's music and attending to his concerts: I do not like the term "boomer" but, to be honest, this is a "boomerish" remark to do.
As a very early listener of The Smiths when I was a small child, and of Morrissey's solo first albums when I was still a child, I am not surprised at all that Gen Z people are into Morrissey's music, and not just his Smiths repertoire: even before attending his post-pandemic gigs in Paris and Dublin in 2023, I knew that his songs would never stop appealing to the young people (and also the young at heart, as M. and her husband, who are not from Gen Z and have discovered Morrissey less than ten years ago and have become fans) for many reasons.
At every concert I have attended in Europe these last years, there are always plenty of young people and I have had interesting conversations with many of them. A very, very small minority of the Gen Z fans are posers: the vast majority of the youngest fans are genuinely interested in Morrissey's songs and are not simply following The Smiths trend.
Moreover, every time I go to a Parisian bar and jump to the microphone and sing Morrissey's songs, whether they are from the Smiths or the post-Smiths era, lots of young people express their love for his music: the illustrated anecdote drew by me and posted at the beginning of my article is just an example of the appeal Morrissey has on the new generations; I have many stories to tell and, one day or another, I will have the time to write them on my blog.
For the moment, I will just say what it goes without saying, but which deserves to be said and heard: Morrissey's lyrics, voice and stage presence still attract lots of young people, not because of adolescence - the age someone stupidly called "the Morrissey phase" - but for a more profound reason. Morrissey is the ultimate, genuine, eternal Maladjusted, the Outsider by birth and not on purpose, the Saint patron of introverts and all kind of people who will never fit in the box, and - thanks to him - they know that they do not even have to try to: from "The Smiths" to "Make-up is Lie", Morrissey's songs, through the variety of subjects they tackle, draw a coherent line, and show that it is possible to grow up without getting old and still having something new to say.
This is also the reason why, despite all the media fussing about his "views", and despite how the article's author insists on this topic, Morrissey keeps many older fans (people who were in their twenties or in their teens when I was a pupil at primary school) who still attend his concert and buy his albums: he still speaks books and he will always mean a lot to them, as it is and it will be for the Gen Z fans when they grow up.
Vera da Pozzo
Somewhere in the North of Italy
26th August 2026
Article and little comics strip by me, of course.
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(C) Italy is Mine
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