“I attempt to maintain politics, cultural or in any other case, out of the music I’m concerned with,” mentioned Dangerous Seeds’ Nick Cave
Nick Cave has shared that he turned down a collaboration with Morrissey in 2024 as a result of the previous Smiths frontman wished Cave to sing “an unnecessarily provocative and barely foolish anti-woke screed”.
On his Red Hand Files web site, Cave replied to a fan asking if he had ever encountered Morrissey.
“I’ve by no means really met Morrissey, which might be why I like him. He’s undeniably a posh and divisive determine, somebody who takes greater than a bit pleasure in pissing individuals off,” learn Cave’s reply.
Regardless of by no means having met the previous Smiths member in particular person, Cave recalled a “few nice e-mail exchanges” he had with Morrissey in 2024.
In his emails, Morrissey requested Cave to carry out on a new track he had written. Cave mentioned he would have been blissful to collaborate with Morrissey however finally declined due to a very political textual content.
“Whereas the track he despatched was fairly pretty, it started with a prolonged and fully irrelevant Greek bouzouki intro.
“It additionally appeared that he didn’t need me to really sing on the track however ship, excessive of the bouzouki, an unnecessarily provocative and barely foolish anti-woke screed he had written,” defined Cave.
What precisely Morrissey wished Cave to say was not laid out in Cave’s weblog put up.
The Dangerous Seeds’ member mentioned that “Though I suppose I agreed with the sentiment on some stage, it simply wasn’t my factor. I attempt to maintain politics, cultural or in any other case, out of the music I’m concerned with.
“I discover that it has a diminishing impact and is antithetical to no matter it’s I’m making an attempt to obtain. So I politely declined,” Cave summed up.
Morrissey’s final album, I Am Not a Canine on a Chain, was launched by way of BMG in 2020. His report Bonfire of Youngsters was set to be launched in 2023 however has to date been shelved due to Morrissey’s controversial statements in the previous few years.
In an interview with The Telegraph in 2024, the Smiths’ singer claims that no main London report label would launch Bonfire of Youngsters because of ‘Fool Tradition’.
