You're right, It's time... for Christmas News
- veradapozzo8
- Dec 25, 2025
- 4 min read
Updated: Dec 27, 2025
Christmas Time is the perfect time for some good news, and here is one from Morrissey: the new album, long-awaited and recently renewed before its release, is coming soon, and the new tracklist is known.
After his post about Sire Records, last week (I was so busy I just had the time to copy, past and send to a French friend the link to Morrissey Central's post), we finally know the new tracklist of this album, whose title Without Music the World dies has changed, because the title-track has been binned (or maybe left for another album... who knows?) but many other songs are still in, like the first and the last tracks, which are explicitly connected to Paris.
Two years ago, I was happy to hear Without Music the World dies in Paris (its world première and the night later),The Night Pop dropped twice in Paris and also at the first gig in Dublin, and Notre Dame on the same night at Vicar Street. The previous tracklist was announced on Morrissey Central just two weeks before the 2023 Spring Tour which started in Paris.
(To be continued... There are some gifts to unwrap, waiting under the Christmas tree.)
The new album have some new songwriting collaborations, as keaboardist Camila Grey and guitarist Carmen Vandenberg are not just musicians and both of them talk about it in few interviews.
I guess Morrissey has written the song You're right, It's time with Camila Grey, and that it has replaced Without Music the World dies also as the new title-track in order to give another meaning to the renewed new album, for the previous song and title-track was a collaboration with Gustavo Manzur, who left the band in April/May 2023, following Alain Whyte's departure.
Among the new songs added, the titles that I find the most intriguing are:
Make-up is a Lie, because I have never liked the beauty diktat created by the cosmetical industry and I find very disturbing when a woman (or even worse, a very young girl) puts too much make-up on her face, in order to look better, while she looks completely different and resembles more to a plastic doll than a human being.
Thank God, I have always thought by myself, never letting other people to influence my tastes and choices.
The show-business is ruthless towards the young pop stars and it is cruel to the older ones: make-up, or even lifting and surgery, hair-dying,
... to be continued...
Meanwhile...
Merry Christmas! Buon Natale! Joyeux Noël!
Vera da Pozzo
Somewhere in the North of Italy
Christmas Day
December 25
A. D. MMXXV
Article and photo below by me.
Best wishes to (and from) Morrissey too.
On a personal side-note, as I noticed the word "Brexit" on the bottle...
Brexit is the reason I cannot visit the UK and attend gigs there and I struggle with the Italian Consulate in order to get an appointment for a Passport - the double pain of being an expat from a Gerontocratic Country where there is no future for young people, unless you are rich and/or you are a politician.
Many British people I have met in France, Italy, Germany and Austria did not want it for plenty of reasons: logistic, economic, etc. Anyway, I guess the United Kingdom will come back to the European Union in few years, as It will join again Erasmus + in 2027. It's just a matter of time...
The real disruptive thing would be to get rid of Monarchy. I could never live in a Country where you have to pay a tax to the Clown - ehr, the Crown; and, when I think how many Countries in Europe are stuck to a hereditary form of government, I find this very embarrassing.
Europe is not an enemy, because Europe is us: the real problem with the European Union is its management, which is the sum of the awful politics of each European Countries.
Below: variations on the Christmas "Moz" theme found via Morrissey-solo, the well-known forum where one can find interesting stuff and informations floating in a pond of honey and bile, if - like me - one refuse to join the social media.
As I have already told here, after Morrissey Central, Morrissey-solo is my source of informations, but I do not have an account.
The second image has been posted on Morrissey's official IG and/or FB.
I do like the vinyl behind the teddy bear in Mozza's bag: a new album coming soon is a great treat.
I also like that the regretted Nick the Hat is remembered by a lovely picture with Carmen Vandenberg shared on Central on Christmas.
Two days later, Morrissey pays tribute to Howie Klein, former executive at Sire Records, who has died at 77. While some detractors on M-solo dislike the obituary posts (but is there something they don't dislike?), I appreciate when Morrissey writes a personal message in memory of old friends, colleagues and collaborators.
Klein worked on many Morrissey's albums from the Nineties: Bona Drag, Kill Uncle, Your Arsenal, Vauxhall and I and Southpaw Grammar.
Maybe one or two songs from this era that were not in the setlist of the recent tours will be in the new setlist for the 2026 tour, along with some new songs from the upcoming album ? I hope so.
(C) Vera da Pozzo
(C) Italy is Mine
(C) Italy is Mine and It owes Me a Living
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