Morrissey – Kiss Me A Lot

Morrissey’s new music video for Kiss Me A Lot takes a very different tack than the visuals we are used to seeing from him. Directed by fashion photographer Sam Esty Rayner the video was premiered via Morrissey’s True to You zine. It features the cantankerous singer performing with his live band interspersed with shots of scantily clad women with the song title written over their bodies in red lipstick. It’s funny but it seems like the video ends up treating women like meat – which is a bit ironic really, isn’t it Moz? Or maybe that’s the whole point.

Morrissey has had a bit of a bad run recently. Two of his previous North American tours were cancelled due to illness and last October he revealed that he has undergone a series of treatments for cancer. “They have scraped cancerous tissues four times already, but whatever,” he told Spanish-language newspaper El Mundo. “If I die, then I die. And if I don’t, then I don’t. Right now I feel good. I am aware that in some of my recent photos I look somewhat unhealthy, but that’s what illness can do. I’m not going to worry about that. I’ll rest when I’m dead.”

Kiss Me a Lot is the 5th cut from Morrissey’s 10th solo studio album, World Peace Is None of Your Business (2014). The album did really well on the charts peaking at Nº2 in the UK and Nº14 in the US when it was released last summer.

Below is a poster for the singer’s upcoming Madison Square Garden show with Blondie — part of a larger tour of the US that starts on June 11 in New Orleans.

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