Critic’s Notebook: Dear Morrissey

Morrissey releases new album, fans mark occasion by describing their sadness in long letters

Image Morrissey has a new album out this week, and it received what we think is a good [http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/arts/music/morrissey-releases-world-peace-is-none-of-your-business.html?_r=0|review in the New York Times (“It’s perfect, but I don’t ever want to hear it again,” seems to be the critic’s verdict). Anyway, we’re curious to give it a listen at the first available opportunity, but we’re actually just as intrigued with a new website that launched in conjunction with the album’s release. Apparently, a lot of people spend warm summer days indoors writing frightening verse to ... Morrissey. That’s the takeaway from a new blog entitled Letters to MORRISSEY.
On the site, fans can submit letters, and Mozzer’s representatives on Earth cull through them and publish a few selections. If you have something that you simply must share with Morrissey (a long description of the terrible funk that descended on you when he canceled his Atlanta concert for the fourth time perhaps?), you can write to him via the site. Maybe your letter will make the blog. And perhaps, one day, when he’s feeling a bit down, Morrissey will read it.]