Over 18 months after Morrissey first introduced his upcoming album Bonfire of Youngsters, the LP seems to be indefinitely shelved as soon as once more after the singer revealed he has parted methods along with his document label. Additionally delaying its launch: Miley Cyrus needs her backing vocals faraway from one of many album tracks.
In a pair of messages posted to Morrissey Central (through NME) — the singer’s go-to mouthpiece — Morrissey revealed that he has “voluntarily withdrawn from any affiliation” with Capitol Information, the label that was set to launch Bonfire of Youngsters in Feb. 2023. The singer additionally “voluntarily parted firm” with Maverick/Quest administration. (Morrissey beforehand complained a couple of lack of promotion forward of the album’s launch date.)
First introduced again in Could 2021, Bonfire of Youngsters was presupposed to be launched by way of BMG earlier than that label dropped Morrissey in Nov. 2020. “The worst yr of my life concludes with one of the best album of my life,” Morrissey wrote of the discharge, including that he was unsigned and that the album is out there to the “highest (or lowest) bidder.”
In October, Morrissey proclaimed that Bonfire of Youngsters discovered a house at Capitol Information, and that the album would characteristic an all-star visitor checklist that included Crimson Scorching Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and Flea, Iggy Pop, Andrew Watt, Josh Klinghoffer and, on the music “I Am Veronica,” Miley Cyrus.
Nevertheless, “Miley Cyrus now needs to be taken off the music ‘I Am Veronica’ for which she volunteered backing vocals nearly two years in the past,” Morrissey Central posted Saturday alongside a photograph of Morrissey and Cyrus within the studio. “This comes at a time when Morrissey has disassociated himself with Capitol Information (Los Angeles), who management the hidden album Bonfire of Youngsters.”
Whereas Morrissey didn’t say why Cyrus needs off the document, he has invited controversy lately main as much as his departure from BMG.
In 2019, he claimed in an interview on his web site that he isn’t racist as a result of “everybody in the end prefers their very own race” and has been a public supporter of maximum right-wing politics in Britain. When Morrissey performed a Las Vegas residency in 2020, his web site acknowledged that “there are not any anti-social distancing or facial concealment guidelines in place” for the exhibits.
Morrissey’s final album, I Am Not a Canine on a Chain, arrived in 2020.