Media Cool

An inflammatory quote like the above is known as a 'gimme'—easy to accept at face value (because supposedly Morrissey's been there and he should know) and just grandly condemnatory enough to raise the hackles on your average major-label veep who might counter with a comment like 'Absurd!' It conjures up the image of some embittered semibureaucrat who sits behind a desk in some A&R department hating the music he deals with on a day-to-day basis; it also plays well to all the wannabes, stars in transition, and stymied players within the industry who need a rationalization for failure.