Im afraid, Morrissey in an interview said this song is indeed about stealing peoples ideas and art and passing it off as their own. Hence the cover of the single, a young Elvis Presley...perhaps the greatest entertainer of all time and indeed the greatest thief of black rhythm and blues music. Sure the gay connotations cant be denied in this song, but the lyrics do indeed go beyond that. Morrissey himself is a shoplifter with the elvis/james dean hair, oscar wilde flowers, and the countless couplets he's 'borrowed'!!!
@cmrock456 That's true. By the way, every master was oneday an apprentice. And mainly in music, I believe, copying and inspiration are very commonplace. In pop music it's even more.
Yeah, I had never thought about this song through this perspective, but it makes sense
@cmrock456 That's true. By the way, every master was oneday an apprentice. And mainly in music, I believe, copying and inspiration are very commonplace. In pop music it's even more.
Yeah, I had never thought about this song through this perspective, but it makes sense
Im afraid, Morrissey in an interview said this song is indeed about stealing peoples ideas and art and passing it off as their own. Hence the cover of the single, a young Elvis Presley...perhaps the greatest entertainer of all time and indeed the greatest thief of black rhythm and blues music. Sure the gay connotations cant be denied in this song, but the lyrics do indeed go beyond that. Morrissey himself is a shoplifter with the elvis/james dean hair, oscar wilde flowers, and the countless couplets he's 'borrowed'!!!
@cmrock456 That's true. By the way, every master was oneday an apprentice. And mainly in music, I believe, copying and inspiration are very commonplace. In pop music it's even more. Yeah, I had never thought about this song through this perspective, but it makes sense
@cmrock456 That's true. By the way, every master was oneday an apprentice. And mainly in music, I believe, copying and inspiration are very commonplace. In pop music it's even more. Yeah, I had never thought about this song through this perspective, but it makes sense