Yesterday I threw on Morrissey’s You Are The Quarry, which is an album that I liked a lot when it came out, but I haven’t listened to in a while, probably over a year. The first track is “America Is Not The World.” I remember this track getting criticism when it first came out (in 2004, not as far removed from 2001 as we are now) because it criticized the United States. Specifically it contains the line:
America, where the president is never black, female or gay, and until that day, you’ve got nothing to say to me
I always liked the line, and whenever I heard it, I generally thought “well, he makes a true point, etc.”
So I’m trying to remember exactly why I decided to listen to this album yesterday, and I can’t. I queued the album up, and went on to doing something else. It started with “America Is Not The World” and I wasn’t thinking much about it, but when it got to that line it stopped me in my tracks.
