MORRISSEY HAS A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR TORMENTORS?

(VIDEO) Morrissey has always been honest, and now he’s honest with his transformation from a depressed to semi-depressed cerebral soul… or so he says here!!

Morrissey is set to release his latest album, Ringleader Of The Tormentors on Tuesday (April 4), and the king of mope-rock just may be not as depressed as he was when he was cleverly writing about interpersonal problems with his old band, The Smiths.

The album reflects the fact that an ol’ dog like Morrissey can still learn a few new tricks, like a changing outlook on life. He was asked at the recent South By Southwest conference about his perspective.

“Specific learning… I’m just seeing some very joyful things in life whereas I didn’t in the past to be quite honest…(laughs) which maybe you noticed, I don’t know.”

Morrissey said that he has always been painfully honest, and even if his lyrics have gotten a little lighter he’s still going to tell it like it is.

“I think I was always very brutally honest, and I think that made lots of people feel very uncomfortable, and I think people initially thought I was too open, and I was walking the plank too willingly and freely, and so forth, and you’re not really supposed to say those things.”

Ringleader Of The Tormentors is the follow-up to 2004’s You Are The Quarry. Morrissey broke up the Smiths shortly after the departure of Johnny Marr from the band in 1987.