How many hipsters did it take to make Morrissey a Fascist icon? by Davin Michael Steadman

Hipsters and vintage Nazis have one thing in common: style and no substance.

Oh you think what he’s saying is rubbish now?

He was aight, but Morrisey was overrated. Being influential is not the same thing as being great. The world if full of consumers thinking the second lowest hanging fruit is like super special, and that grabbing the other thing is like “really edgy.”

Now a generation thinks they are “discovering” new artists because of an algorithm on YouTube that can weed out and bury authentic and rebellious voices with a click of a button.

When I saw a photo of Proud Boys marching looking like a gaggle of tatted beard hipster bros, I took out the “like”,

They are not “like” Hipsters. They are Hipsters. Hipsters since the dawn of social media’s mental seasoning and demographic parsing have been just a douche canoe of corporatized tools that have been weaponized to jump from trend to trend like whorey savage terminates. Since they lack the ability to master anything, and commit to anything but nostalgia, you can only count on them to latch onto the next counterintuitive trend.

And Fascism is so big right now. But it seems to be like a final destination, a reverse reincarnation where these splintered masses have devolved into little Morriseys, spitting the same Fascist rhetoric Morrisey always had in his heart and poured into the confused disinfrachisement and diffidence of his lyrics.

He’s got a couple good songs. But even Charles Manson has a good song. And Manson was a better singer, but both of them are Nazis so who cares.

Certain pretentious people that exulted Morrissey, are still as pretentious as Morrissey, but political identification is rather a loop, and not a straight line from left to right, hence Tulsi is fetishized by Proud Boys who love her tan and their programming.

…just because you don’t agree with a particular Fascist doesn’t make you a Liberal. In Morrissey’s case, he just needed the platform of social media to show us how little the world has changed.

And don’t forget, vintage Nazis were quite Dandy. The American prison version is pretty grimy, but you know Morrissey always loved the cut of those Hugo Boss trousers, and the smell of Coco Chanel’s #5, and the pragmatic tang of Fanta.

…all the Nazi businesses we still embrace that would have been even bigger if the Fuhrer had won his mad stupid gambit.

Morrisey is Fanta to me. The best of what is around when you don’t have something real like Otis Redding.

Morrissey is a rebel. But not all rebels are equal. A rebel with no cause is infinitely better than a rebel with a Fascist one.

Am I the only one not surprised?

[Ed. Note – Bristolian singer of high regard, Jalon Fearon, was a mighty source for this article.}

– Musician and writer Davin Michael Stedman has many ventures, such as the AMAZING blog, 100milesofmusic.com. Davin’s recent song has become a global earworm and Caribbean dancehall hit. Listen here on Reggaeville: DAVIN MICHAEL STEDMAN & ANTHONY RED ROSE – FREE YOUR MIND FEAT. SLY & ROBBIE WITH LENKY MARSDEN. The video is now available on Youtube: Tuff Gong Television. His single with British band Sherlock Soul is available here.

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