World Peace Is None Of Your Business is the upcoming release from our dear Mozziah. The first single released last week was so awful that I honestly believed it was a prank. God awful lyrics backed up by the overworked production of a an engineer with an ax to grind.
This week we were served up ‘Istanbul”, a more swinging bassy tune. Musically its fantastic. Bass and drum carry this from swaying to exotic and back again with ease. Vocally Morrissey is back sounding strong and steady. Not that nasal Moz but the over enunciated chest vocal he offers up when he means it. But.. and it’s a big butt……the lyrics are horrible. The effort of making the words rhyme over make sense took a hold of his pen and wouldn’t let go. Is it a rap? Otherwise there was no need for the sing song lyrical line endings.
The Mozerians will rejoice as mobs often due but in my effort to remain objective amongst the mayhem I cannot let the lyrics slide. The story is fine- much like any other world issue blather but ugh, c’mon with that last word echo.
The trend of offering up a spoken word version of each tune prior to dropping is pretty cute- but even this scotch drinking vid is just acceptable. My prediction is the tune is dynamic live simply because of its music. The tune is up on Spotify and the spoken word is below.
Final single release goes down next Wednesday… will it be even better than this? I’m thinking yes.
