One of the highlights of Morrissey’s well-received 2014 album World Peace Is None Of Your Business was deep cut “The Bullfighter Dies,” in which the former Smiths singer stands up for the four-legged and cheers on its victory. “The bullfighter dies, and nobody cries/Nobody cries/Because we all want the bull to survive,” the Mozzer sings.
On New Year’s Day, Morrissey took to fan site True To You to post an op-ed in which he gloated over the injuries sustained by bullfighter Karla de los Angeles a few weeks back in Mexico, where she was gored twice. He wrote that he “felt delight this week to see serial killer Karla de los Angeles justifiably gored in a bullring in Mexico City against her largely defenseless opponent.”
De los Angeles suffered two severe cuts to her thigh and backside, though Mozzer is bummed she didn’t lose an ear. Heard that, bullfighting world?
Read his full statement below, and listen to a snippet of the song, via a graphic fan-made video, below.
The shame of beloved Mexico
I felt delight this week to see serial killer Karla de los Angeles justifiably gored in a bullring in Mexico City against her largely defenseless opponent. Make no mistake: there is no such thing as bullfighting. For the torment and slaughter of each bull there is an avowed plan and a strict script, so therefore there is no possibility of a contest of any kind. Yet there is the illusion of contest and action even if the order of events is very efficient – so efficient, in fact, that whenever the bull “wins” it is reported that the event has ’gone wrong’. But why could anything go wrong if a contest is fair? Whenever the matador is suddenly at a disadvantage, other matadors rush to her/his aid, and they stab the bull. However, the bull is not allowed support from other bulls should he find himself similarly in trouble. For this reason, the event is superficial and can only appeal to people who have no intelligence.
Driven by perverted impulse, Karla de los Angeles wants to kill another being that has actually posed no threat to her, and her radio comment following this week’s failed attempt to out-wit a dying bull had de los Angeles confessing:
“I am sad because I could not cut off the bull’s ear.”
Well, Karla, please understand this: we are sad that the bull did not come away with YOUR ear.
Most tourist guides still list ’bullfighting’ as a sport, yet nothing about the event is sporting. In actual and undeniable fact, it ought to be listed in travel publications as ’torture’ because to the intelligent mind, it does not qualify for any other description.
This torture of bulls provides a small degree of employment in Mexico, as does the torture of humans at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The fact that some people will pay money to watch bull torture is immaterial because, after all, paedophilia presumably entertains the paedophile, but no one has yet described paedophilia as a sport.
The lack of moral heroism from Karla de los Angeles and her co-killers Hilda Tenorio and Lupita Lopez represents the very worst aspects of Mexican life, and for 2015 I wish all three women the very worst, for the very worst is their rightful due.
Thanks for reading this.
Morrissey
1 January 2015.
Below is the aforementioned fan made video for Morrissey’s “The Bullfighter Dies.” Warning: the content is graphic. To hear the full track without the animal violence, skip down below…