See above re: clarification of "Smiths fans"
This is the problem I have with the Smiths fans I have encountered, though: that implication that I only don't like them because I haven't tried hard enough. Music, to me, is not something for which you can get an acquired taste - you listen to something and you either dig it or you don't; and if you have to make an effort to like a song, maybe it's just not your thing. I don't like Lady Gaga. I'm pretty sure I will continue not to like her no matter how many times I involuntarily hear "Bad Romance".

I don't doubt Marr is talented, I just find the music he plays to be mind-numbingly boring. Morrissey's "wit" is a bit too smug and sixth-formy to me: I don't think he's as clever as he thinks he is. "If you think peace is a common goal/That goes to show how little you know"? Oh get you, Holden Caulfield.
(Shinigami, Sun 2 Jan 2011, 20:46, Reply)