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Picture Morrissey walking
into one of those “Be a Star”
recording studios in the mall. He
sings over a soundtrack and the
“engineers” — who usually make
minimum wage — add a lot of
echo and reverb to make his
voice sound decent.
That’s Southpaw Grammar.
The music sounds pretty
good, but Morrissey sounds un
rehearsed, out of the loop, as if
the “engineers” handed him a
chart of the songs five minutes
before they pressed record.
Any other customer might
leave the “Be A Star” place satis
fied because it only cost them
$25 to make a decent recording.
In Morrissey’s case, though, it’s
not good enough.
For one thing, he’s a profes
sional — recording music is his
job. Also, it probably cost him
much more than $25 to record
Southpaw.
Morrissey’s fifth full-fledged
solo album offers more proof that
he has given up on reclaiming the
brilliance that the Smiths were
known for — or for that matter,
the brilliance of his solo efforts
Viva Hate and Your Arsenal.
Although Morrissey once
wrote about shyness, love,
charm and other topics that ele
vated him to the status of guru
to the lonely. Southpaw is blan
keted in attempts to be clever
that fall short.
“Reader Meet Author” starts
out promising, but Morrissey’s
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song. However, Morrissey seems
to resume the political commen
tary established by 1992’s
“Glamorous Glue,” as he sings,
“And the year 2000, won’t
change anyone here/as each fa
bled promise flies so fast, you’d
swear it was never there.”
Morrissey still has a way with
words, he just isn’t as consistent
as he used to be.
On “The Boy Racer,” he goes
to great lengths to describe the
racer but for no apparent reason,
as he sings “he’s just too good
natured and/he’s got too much
money and / he’s got too many
girlfriends. I’m jealous that’s all
/but have you seen him go?”
In the past, Morrissey could
not only create great character
traits, but could then use them to
tel) a story that meant something.
Now, it seems he creates the
characters eind then abandons
the plot.
Sometimes he does succeed.
He describes a failed relation
ship in “Best Friend on the
Payroll ’ with the humorous
lines, “I turn the music down,
and I don’t know why, this is
my house,” and ends the song
with the refrain, “it’s not going
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Black goes to court
to silence past lover
PHOENIX (AP) — Clint
Black wants the mother of his
love child to keep quiet about
the 5-year-old.
The country star said Mon
day in a court complaint that
Renee Lynn
Black had his lawyers file the
complaint because Bain is ask
ing for more money — an “out
landish amount,” Schwartz said.
Schwartz won’t disclose the
child’s gender and said Black
seeks unspecified damages for
breach of contract.
Judy Miller, Bain’s attorney,
was in a meeting Tuesday and
not available for comment.
Bain talked to
The Globe and
A Current Af
fair in viola
tion of a 1991
agreement.
“She went
to the rag me
dia,” said
Robert
Schwartz,
Black’s lawyer.
“Every time
she wants a little pocket change,
she tries to rattle his cage.”
Black, who is married to ac
tress Lisa Hartman, has ac
knowledged paternity and
agreed to pay child support and
health insurance and set up a
fund for the youngster’s educa
tion, Schwartz said.
Photos of Charles
cause royal uproar
Black
LONDON (AP) — The royal
family is not amused by an Ital
ian magazine’s photos of Prince
Charles putting on his boxers.
“There is no justification for
intrusive photographs taken of
the Prince of Wales whilst on
holiday at the private home of
friends in Prance,” the news
agency Press Association quoted
an unidentified royal aide as
saying.
The pictures, published in
Eva Tremila Express, were tak
en with a telephoto lens and
consist of back and side views of
the future king of England
putting on white boxer shorts.
Foxworthy has no
regrets about choice
LOS ANGELES (AP) -
Country comic Jeff Foxwrthy
had his mother “flopping Itoi
bass on the kitchen floor" wh
he quit his IBM job to mai
people laugh.
“Hey, Mom and Dad, I’m go
ing to quit and tell jokes for
living,” the star of ABC’s Tl
Jeff Foxworthy Show recallei
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‘Are you on
drugs? What’s
wrong with
you? We can
get you help!’
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really
thought I was
crazy, you
know, until
the first time, the first time I
was on Johnny Carson. Then
my mom was like, ‘Well, you
just wasted all those years at
IBM!’
Foxworthy :
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