| Morrissey – Reader Meet Author Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| I think that in this song Morrissey reflects himself in the situation of the song's protagonist: a bad writer constantly destroyed by critics who fail to understand his work. In this hypothetical encounter between reader and author, Morrissey himself is the defense attorney, exposing the life circumstances that makes the writer so plain in his work, just as Oscar Wilde, of whom Moz is a fan, quotes him in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" about how bad artists live the work they they cannot write and vice versa. In the last verse you can see the ambiguity of both paths, that of the writer and that of Morrissey, the misunderstood artist so criticized for his lyrics from day one. | |
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