Morrissey slams the BBC for not playing his new single: “Diversity is a lie”
Morrissey has launched into yet another rant, this time criticising the BBC for not playing his new single, ‘Notre Dame’.
The former Smiths frontman has been in the mood for feuding recently, having reignited his fight with former bandmate Johnny Marr, and claiming he was a victim of online identity fraud.
However, his latest target is neither of those things, and instead has been aimed towards the BBC, after he said the organisation haven’t been playing his single ‘Notre Dame’ on their radio stations.
In a post to his website Morrissey Central made on July 5th, titled ‘Diversity is a Lie’, referencing the title of his own latest album, Make-Up Is A Lie, Morrissey said, “The public wants to hear the song, but the BBC will not play it even though their stations are a public service duty-bound to reflect public taste. Obviously not!”
Morrissey’s website also claimed that ‘Notre Dame’ “is number six in the Official UK chart” having received “no airplay”, but the latest data from the Official Charts shows Olivia Rodrigo’s single ‘The Cure’ is actually in that position.
Nevertheless, the singer continued in his statement, “If the song is suspected of independent thought – God forbid!, it is not played, therefore, under these circumstances, any station that pledges allegiance to diversity is lying.”
He added, “When people say ‘Diversity is our strength’ they fail to mention how their notion of ‘diversity’ entails very strict Third Reich regulations and punishments. I wonder why people can’t simply be honest about these things?”
In terms of his other recent feuds, Morrissey also launched an attack on his former bandmate Marr over an unannounced BBC radio documentary about The Smiths, in which he said, “Forty years on, Marr cannot do anything with his life but look back. The truth is always ignored.”
In the now-deleted essay, in which he also slammed The Guardian for criticising him, Morrissey claimed, “Marr, I firmly believe, is destroying the legacy of the Smiths. He plants seeds of doubt everywhere. He’s done it so loudly and so often that he has trapped himself.”
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