Can this get any more confusing?
The world of online truth and gossip is a bewildering miasma where everything is real until it isn’t real and gossip has the power to become truth in the blink of the eye. Sure, it was always this way, but it wasn’t always so viral, people lose the plotline when a single word is heard round the world instantaneously and when it comes to this story it doesn’t really matter that much, still how can something confirmed by neither Morrissey’s label nor himself, be truth and than not true?
Morrissey’s “True To You” website posted that he had been dropped by his label, Harvest/Columbia and since Moz is known to be friendly with “True To You” everybody ran with the story, including us here, and now four days later here comes news that Morrissey has not, in fact, been dropped by his label according to Billboard: “A source close to the situation tells Billboard that Moz has not been dropped by Harvest/Capitol, and that his contract with the company calls for two releases, the first of which was World Peace.”
So how did his latest sell? Not that hot. According to Morrissey-Solo (yeah, I know): “Farther down the chart, Morrissey’s World Peace is None of Your Business sold an estimated 13,500 to place him somewhere between 18 and 20.” In a nation of 300 Million people it appears to clear the golden age of Moz is not upon us. On Spotify, the title track has been streamed 500K times and “Istanbul” 400K times ergo, in dollars and sense, some $3,000 worth.
NOW: If i did that I’d be fired.
