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if there's one #Morrissey solo song that sounds most like #TheSmiths - it's Sister I'm a Poet
"is evil just something you are ... or something you do?"
in typical Morrissey fashion, this line is straight stolen from Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho"
"Bateman ... he did not come out of me sitting down and wanting to write a grand sweeping indictment of yuppie culture ... I was slipping into a consumerist kind of void"
i've found that if you sit down and try to write something *really smart* it ends up vacuous, try-hard, and obvious; meaning comes from feeling and feeling has to be felt, it cannot be forced.
@buru5 It is making me realize just how often he has used something like "all over this town" in songs >.>
@buru5 but surely the other way round? I think the song was released first.
@IanMoore3000 oh wow you're totally right. for some reason I assume otherwise, and Morrissey is known for lifting lines like this. interesting
@IanMoore3000 digging into it, Ellis is quoted in a few interviews saying that Morrissey was a big influence on him, so either 1) he used the same line from Sister I'm a Poet 2) it's a coincidence or 3) they both used the line from some other 3rd earlier source I can't find (this is not exactly a new concept)
some people on a forum saying Morrissey could have gotten an early copy of the book before it was published, being an avid reader (and snob) but I don't really buy that
@buru5 it is one of my favourite of Morrissey's lines as it was encapsulates a philosophical question that fascinates me.
@buru5 rightly or wrongly, I can see Ellis quoting Morrissey more than the other way round... It's not like Ellis was screenwriting kitchen sink drama in the 1960s.