It’s been a longtime coming for Morrissey’s followup to 2006′s Ringleader Of The Tormentors. Or it just seems like we’ve been hearing about it and songs from it for quite a while. The final 12-song tracklist hasn’t been entirely confirmed. So far it’s unclear if “All You Need Is Me” will make the cut. It looks like That’s How People Grow Up” definitely does. Speaking of which: the album art finds Moz with his little one in his (tattooed) arms.
So he’s left holding the baby, right? That’s his inner child? Why’s there a “W” (or a butterfly?) on the tot’s forehead and that mark on Morrissey’s arm? Very Lil Wayne. The man (caterpillar) becomes the child (butterfly)? Very Wordsworth. Hopefully we get a bigger image soon so we can make out some of these finer points and see what M’s trying to communicate to us…
Years Of Refusal is out 2/16 via Polydor/Decca. The first single “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” is reportedly out 2/9.
UPDATE: Tracklist…
1. “That’s How People Grow Up”
2. “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris”
3. “Sorry Doesn’t Help”
4. “When Last I Spoke To Carol”
5. “Mama Lay Softly On The Riverbed”
6. “I’m OK By Myself”
7. “Something Is Squeezing My Skull”
8. “Black Cloud”
9. “You Were Good In Your Time”
10. “I’m Looking Forward To Going Back”
11. “I Was Bully, Do Not Forget Me”
12. “One Day Goodbye Will Be Farewell”
Comparatively cheery!
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see, i don’t care about any of that W business (political maybe?) and what it all means, I’m just wondering whose baby is that???
Morrissey? Are you adopting babies??? Also misread headline as “…Years of Refusal *of* Album Art”. More confusing.
Songs, please!
“ha ha ha!” morrissey thought. “this white baby will be perfect in my casserole!”
That’s already my favorite album cover of next year.
Moments later, the baby peed, and Morrissey dropped it.
There’s something so very Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass about this cover.
“years of refusal”= years of celibacy?
i mean really… it was speculated that a few of the songs on “ringleader of the tormentors” were hinting at him possibly actually getting some action now.
i wonder…
Hmmmm. From Morrissey’s pov in the picture it’s not a ‘W’ but an ‘M’.
which baby in the picture are we speaking of? the big one or the little one?
C’mon guys…it’s obvious. That “tattoo” on Morrissey’s arm is a caterpillar & that “W” on the baby’s head is a butterfly. He’s obviously embracing his inner child after “Years of Refusal”. Is it that hard to understand poetry? It’s almost comical how silly everyone’s responses have been here.
The font, I believe, is amazing.
Carry on small minded ones….
It doesn’t really look like a butterfly to me… :O
But from what I know about Morrissey’s life… he started ‘dating’ people at a very young age… so maybe he did feel a part of his childhood was denied from him…
here you have a waaay larger version of it
hmm the butterfly makes since. I think it’s more of a refusal to grow up and to lose one’s innocents and the realizations of ones childhood to conform to society
Other than that…I want to lock that man SO badly that it’s not even right XD
We love you Esteban!
the butterfly is a well-known symbol of trauma-based mind control, particarly within the american entertainment industry (morrissey lived in LA for ages).
look up MK ultra and Project Monarch.
I don’t know if this means Morrissey is under mind control, or if th poor child is.
who is the baby on morrissys years of refusal alum an whos is it it cant be morrisseys?