"Zoom Zoom the Little Boy" official video

Paris, 13th November, 8 A. M.

I was waiting for the release of the video of Zoom Zoom the Little Boy on YouTube since it was announced, three months ago, and it was worth waiting for.

After the release of the video of Kerching Kerching, starring Cliff Richard, on Oscar Wilde's birthday, last month, the music video of Zoom Zoom the Little Boy has been released today, on Morrissey's beloved Mamma's birthday.

I guessed the video of this song would have been released on the sixth missed birthday of Elizabeth Dwyer.

To me, a missed birthday is not a forgotten one (I have a memory like an elephant) but it is when we cannot wish Happy Birthday to our Beloved Ones anymore.

Nevertheless, I am sure that Love never dies and, somehow, Our Beloved Ones are still beside us and They will always stay with us.

During the Summer 2020, back in Italy for holidays, I had a digital break that lasted more than a month and a half: after four long months of reclusion and remote work in my Parisian cubby-hole, due to the lockdown, I needed so much to stay away from the screens and the Internet, and I spent my Summer holidays doing what I love the most: walking, reading, writing, drawing, dancing and - of course - listening to the music on my CDs and the radio. I have been regularly listening to Morrissey since my early childhood, but that Summer I listened to his music even more than usual, and mostly his whole solo repertoire from Viva Hate to I am not a Dog on a Chain, the album released in 2020.

At that time, I did not know any Morrissey's fans yet, so I was completely unaware of the tragedy happening to him and his family.

The 23rd August, few days before going back to Paris for the rentrée scolaire in my new lycée, I ended my long digital break: the first thing I did was to check Morrissey's website and the terrible, unexpected news of his dear Mother's death shocked and really saddened me.

The release of Zoom Zoom the Little Boy video on Elizabeth's Dwyer birthday is, to me, more than a loving tribute from a devoted Son: it is also an act of gratitude towards a Mother who (around 1970-1971, in one of the numerous Countries where meat was still considered as a necessary, healthy and even tasty food, and the Vegetarian Movement had just started to gain the media's attention) understood her eleven-years old son's claim and let him stop eating meat. This is was not my case, otherwise I would have already stopped eating meat when I was five, when the sight of cows, sheep and pigs carcasses delivered from a slaughterhouse shocked me.

Of course, to stop eating meat is just the first step, but without this first step, how many people would have turned vegan in the last decades, and how many would become vegan nowadays?

I have been a vegetarian since my mid-twenties, but when I moved to Paris for my PhD, I struggled to find vegetarian options. During a party, I was even forced to eat foie gras by some French "friends" who want me to embrace French "culture": an experience as awfully abusive as a baiser volé.

Thank God, things are getting better now in Paris, even if France is still less advanced than Italy on its way towards crueltt-free gastronomy. Meanwhile, I am now almost fully vegan and happy to be.

Below, screenshot of the lovely video of Zoom Zoom the Little Boy. I would like to know more about it: who is the director? Is he/she the same who directed the video of Kerching Kerching and The Monsters of Pig Alley? What is the boy's name? Where was the video filmed: perhaps in Los Angeles?

The video appeared on YouTube as the first suggestion this morning, before checking Central for a new message from Morrissey.

It is a freezing cold, but very sunny morning in Paris, and the Sun, "my" Park, the Lovely Blackbirds and a Ladybird photobombing on my beloved Sophora Japonica, all the Fantastic Birds and Beautiful Creatures who live there, and the music video of Zoom Zoom the Little Boy (one of my favourite songs from Morrissey's new album, and I was extremely happy to hear it on its live debut in Lillestrøm and many other times after that wonderful show, last Summer) make this day less sad.

Above: my cruelty-free lunch in a nice café where I enjoy writing, drawing and even working, with good music and cool and not intruding waiters. It is impossible to find other vegan food than an assiette de frites, but at least I do not starve when I spend many hours there.

Vera da Pozzo

Paris, 13th November 2026

Article and photos by me, of course. I started to write my article just after watching the video this morning, but I had to interrupt and finish it later.

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