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that's how people grow up
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by Gareth Dobson
  • Type: Single
  • Release date: 28/01/2008
  • Label: Polydor

A big old starchy corn-muffin of a track, Morrissey’s return (although he seems to be ever present these days) is marked by the weary shrug of the shoulders by anyone who cares about musical innovation, or even the notion of an artist attempting to stop his creative ship listing heavily to the right. It’s all clangs and grunts musically, and unmemorable lyrics. Much like the entirety of his output of the last few years.

Clearly designed to sound grandiose in the rafters of the MEN rather than another key jewel to the Stephen Patrick canon, it’s entirely passable if you don’t care about Morrissey, or perhaps if you still care a little too much. It does little by way of advertising the merits of his forthcoming greatest hits, even though that will be a bountiful disc of delights up to a point.

Perhaps by way of making up for the inevitable blah-outta-10 mark DiS will be encumbering ‘That’s How People Grow Up’ with, we can visually persuade you to support the Moz Growing Old Ungracefully Fund by showing you this:

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  • Morrissey 5 / 10
Words: Gareth Dobson

yeh

this is pretty gash.


Yeah,

an odd choice this, BUT I've heard what may well be the next single - 'All You Need Is Me' - and it fucking well rocks.


It's You Are The One For Me, Fatty all over again

I truly hope he's saving the better new songs for the next studio album and therefore giving this lacklustre offering to a needless "greatest hits".

Things seem to be going too well for Morrissey these days. Whenever he's on the ropes, he usually comes up with an Vauxhall & I or an You Are The Quarry (the b-sides of which were better than most of Ringleader). But when things are going swimmingly, we get a single like this: a song title looking in vain for a tune or even a memorable couplet.


Please make it

STOP.....


Even with me

being a Morrissey obsessive, this is turgid at best


I agree that this single is poor, but

"It’s all clangs and grunts musically, and unmemorable lyrics. Much like the entirety of his output of the last few years."

Is not strictly true, his last couple of albums have contained some very good songs, ok plenty of clunkers too but some good moments, more than you admit here.





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