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if there's one #Morrissey solo song that sounds most like #TheSmiths - it's Sister I'm a Poet
"is evil just something you are ... or something you do?"
in typically Morrissey fashion, this line is straight stole from Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho"
@buru5 but surely the other way round? I think the song was released first.
@IanMoore3000 oh wow you're totally right. for some reason I assume otherwise, and Morrissey is known for lifting lines like this. interesting
@IanMoore3000 digging into it, Ellis is quoted in a few interviews saying that Morrissey was a big influence on him, so either 1) he used the same line from Sister I'm a Poet 2) it's a coincidence or 3) they both used the line from some other 3rd earlier source I can't find (this is not exactly a new concept)
some people on a forum saying Morrissey could have gotten an early copy of the book before it was published, being an avid reader (and snob) but I don't really buy that
@buru5 it is one of my favourite of Morrissey's lines as it was encapsulates a philosophical question that fascinates me.
@buru5 rightly or wrongly, I can see Ellis quoting Morrissey more than the other way round... It's not like Ellis was screenwriting kitchen sink drama in the 1960s.