Label: Decca
Release Date: 28/01/08
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It's all there - the falsetto warbling, the self-questioning/self-pitying lyrics, the, uh... the um... Well, 'That's How People Grow Up' can be summed up in the single, highly connotative name of Morrissey. Appropriately consisting of the semi-intangible qualities associated with the Mancunian blow-hard, 'That's How People Grow Up' is one of two new compositions attached to the soon-to-be-released Greatest Hits. And rightly so.
The single is a deftly composed combination of all we have come to know and expect of of Morrissey. A pleasing, though slightly awkward, vocal melody seeks attention over a dense bounce of bass and crunch of guitar. Lyrically, there's a strong thematic recurrence from 'Reel Around the Fountain' (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), though the straightforwardness is unexpected. Generally, one expects Morrissey to push verbosity to its limits, crossing the line every now and again into and out of taste. Yet 'That's How People Grow Up' is tasteful, enjoyable – almost colourlessly so. Could it be that he has become prosaic in the light of fan-bands dealing with similar thematic territory?
Morrissey is almost a genre in himself, and as a genre he has inspired many current successes (read as 'successors') in music. A Greatest Hits album on the loose has the potential of sounding like an admittance that, like disco, Morrissey is dead.
Daniel Good
Morrissey Official Site
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