Norman Tebbit, or some other old cunt, once claimed that untidiness with language led inevitably to an inability to dress oneself and a life filled with crime and poverty. Despite this being ABSOLUTE BOLLOCKS, we can’t help but look around and wonder what has gone wrong in this country.
Obviously we know fuck all about the written word so we got our lit-loving friend, the amazing Holly C, to conduct a special report. She done this:
The sun is shining and right about now the yoof of the UK are preparing to tear themselves away from Skins-esque drink, drugs and sex binges in an attempt to gain some qualifications.
With tabloid doomsayers braced to deliver damning reports on ‘slipping standards’ and bad GCSE results being worse than genocide, we were curious to discover whether this worrying 'trend' had got its underachieving, happy slapping claws into the music industry.
Here is a quote from The Courteeners’ ‘What Took You So Long’.
‘I’m like a Morrissey with some strings.’
Firstly, VERY bad grammar, unless he’s referring to Morrissey as an indefinite article, suggesting therefore that he has no unique value and is really a fairly bog standard, run of the mill, unremarkable entity. Basically, Morrissey is like the colour beige.
Fray might also be suggesting that he himself is a Morrissey copycat, one amongst many, and therefore has no artistic merit other than as an imitator of a third rate, overrated and under talented singer.
A third possibility is that the Morrissey comparison is not connected to the music but simply implies that Fray sees himself as an overweight, pie eating vegetarian with a rapidly receding quiff. The ‘strings’ reference also casts Fray as an indie Pinocchio, desperate for a fairy godmother to make him a ‘real’ musician…
So, in conclusion, not the best showing from the ‘new Manc Messiah’. He may claim to be ‘not nineteen forever’ (despite having been 22 for at least five years) but after a lyrical offering like that, he’d be lucky to reach Key Stage 2.
(Thanks to Holly C)
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1 comment:
liam fray looks like gary glitter in his press shots. you know those pictures of gary in his heyday when he's all OOH ITS MEEEE frankie howard-y like this http://fuxoft.cz/tmp/blog/gary_glitter.jpg
well fray's taken that as his cue for super hot pop star fame. bless.
except in this pic: http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_Courteenersmagbits_02.jpg he looks more like a ageing paedo than paul gadd ever could.
also fray = middleclass son of well-to-do teachers. not that that matters UNLESS YOU'RE THE KIND OF BOORISH MORON WHO PORTRAYS HIMSELF AS THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. (in this instance, 'the people' = fat angry men with union jack tattoos)
keep up the good work. can we get an anti-fray blog every week? if we all band together we can kick this sick filth out of our lovely city. or at least encourage to write a morose self-pitying 'we so mis-und-er-stud' 2nd album that'll sell jack shit. either way society wins.
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