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“How an ordinary Asian fell in love with The Smiths”

By Nick Moran posted at 2:06 pm on December 21, 2011 1

You may not expect much from a write-up about The Smiths’ new collected box set, Complete, but that’s about to change. In a phenomenal piece on the relationship between racial (in particular Asian) otherness and the UK band’s music, Sukhdev Sandhu explains how Morrissey’s “lyrics and persona mapped out a structure of feeling that spoke to my own floundering selfhood.”

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One Response to ““How an ordinary Asian fell in love with The Smiths””

SrLansky
at 4:04 am on December 22, 2011
Chuck Klosterman did a piece for Spin a few years ago titled “Viva Morrissey!” about his populartity between LA latinos.

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Nick Moran is the social media editor for The Millions. He was born in Hoboken, NJ and he returned there after graduating from the University of Miami. Before leaving the publishing industry, he worked for Norton, John Wiley & Sons, and Oxford University Press. His interests can be followed on his Tumblr, Nick Recommends and Twitter, @nemoran3.

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