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Morrissey - Spent The Day In Bed:
I like this song because a) I live in a tiny apartment and my bed ends up being where I spend a lot of my time (sitting up and reading, using my laptop... it's where I am now, in fact), and b) for the rest of the counter culture lyrics. Especially the part about not watching the news.
In a lot of ways 95% of the things in the mainstream news (and 80% of things in local news) don't affect me in any tangible way - they might as well be fiction. I feel a pervasive ethos that you need to "stay informed," but in reality I think most people end up doomscrolling (being anxious/upset about things beyond their control) for way too many hours per day. If one wants to learn about the world, I think a book is far more informative than the relative soundbite that is news. I think journalism is important - there are many article that I think are veritable works of art - but what I don't like (and what I think the Morrissey lyrics speak to) is 24-hour/click bate/inflammatory news and the ethos of needing to always be plugged in.
I don't know that much about Morrissey since he was big before my time, but he seems like a character; a real individual in an era of the social media averaged/aggregate person. He's very blunt. I came across his post about cancelling his show in Valencia due to noise outside his hotel room that kept him up. He made it very clear that the show wasn't cancelled, it was "rendered impossible." lol.Comment
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BRBFBI Without cover songs like this
A good cover of Don't Dream It's Over (Crowded House).
This wouldn't exist
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boredjedi Hah! It's funny you bring that up because after hearing that song in your YTMND that album became one of my favorites. I eventually bought it on CD.Comment
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A little behind the scene information. The 3D model lip moving with the vocals of the song.
That's me. I had to sing along with song to boost the vocal level. Using the actual song the vocals weren't strong enough to move
the lips well. The lips were rather muted. Nowadays I could just isolate the vocals right out.
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Lol, I find the animation off-putting, but I can appreciate the extremely high effort.Comment
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Very timely. Ted Turner, founder of CNN and creator of the 24-hour news cycle, just died at 87. He was quite a character himself - owner and runner of a baseball team, captain of the winning sailing yacht in the America's Cup, media mogul.
Yes most news is merely entertainment. I have a friend who considers it a great virtue to always be extremely well informed on current events. He doesn't like it when I tell him he is really just consuming stories, about people he will never know, in places he will never go, doing things that do not actually affect his life or give him any decisions to make. Most people do not need to keep up on the news. I know a lot of people who do mostly because they are bored at work and want a break, and news sites are always work safe, and possibly interesting.
There are exceptions - people with a lot of money generally find it advantageous to be extremely up to date on any and all events that could change their investment holdings - but for most people, it doesn't really matter if they learn of a major event an hour, a day, or even a week after it happened; and for minor events, it doesn't matter if they miss them completely. Unless they have a major decision coming up that requires timing - such as when to buy a house - the daily news won't impact their decisions.
Having some idea of what's going on as of an election obviously is desirable. Mostly a knowledge of the prior X years, as relevant to the election and candidate. Similarly having some idea if something is going on that you might want to protest - such as a piece of legislation being voted on - is desirable for those who are politically active.
News learned later is actually more likely to be based on all the facts that have emerged, rather than the breaking-type partial info, rumors, and disinformation, and is thus of higher quality than live breaking type stuff.
There is a certain civic value in the people being informed of what the powerful are doing. It does not have to be immediate in most cases but there is a large assumption that the powerful are often kept in line by fear of the public finding out if they did something outrageous; there is also a great, perhaps unwarranted, catharsis experienced by the public whenever something evil done by a corporation or politician is "outed" because now, surely, the bad guys will pay. Now that it's known, somebody will do something, right? I think modern journalism was founded on the idea that somebody has to bear witness, to report on what the powerful are doing, because otherwise, there is not even a chance to hold the powerful to account.
When I was growing up, reading the Sunday paper was all most people did, and perhaps watching the nightly TV news when that became a thing, to be more current on the most important (and the format left no time for unimportant) events. That would mean 30 minutes minus commercials of news per day, unless you heard something on the radio somewhere. And that was between 6 and 6:30, if you missed it, you missed it. People often ate "TV dinners" on little standup tables while sitting in their living rooms watching the nightly news.
Before the internet my interest in news was so low I not only did not subscribe to any newspapers or news magazines like Time or Newsweek, I did not even watch the evening news, since I generally never liked to watch TV and certainly did not pay for cable. Now my nervous system has been so rewired to want constant stimulation that I feel compelled to keep checking the news, which is all the easier now that all I have to do is hover over an icon in the taskbar and a ragebait news feed appears with lots of articles, often taken from otherwise paywalled sources.
I have a hundred things I could read, from boardgame manuals to mythology texts to novels to science articles, that would be a better use of my time than reading the news. It is however a habit that is hard to break when I have many boring days at work and that is the safest thing to look at.
Actually that song is fairly recent - he released it 30 years after The Smiths broke up, in 2017.
Oh he's a character all right. I've been reading about him lately, and reviews of his albums.
This article is a nice summary.
https://modernagejournal.com/the-unm...rissey/247054/
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For me in the 90s, it was his cable channels. Turner Classic Movies and TBS.
If I remember correctly, Turner was also the one that began colorizing Black and White films.
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