Morrissey blames diversity initiative after being dropped by BMG Records

BMG Records have finally cut ties with Morrissey after three albums, and unsurprisingly Morrissey and his team are pointing the finger at the label, blaming "plans for 'diversity' within BMG's artist roster".

Morrissey and his team's response was published on his Morrissey Central site yesterday (16 November). After listing numerous chart positions for his I Am Not A Dog On A Chain album as some sort of weird validation, his team wrote, "BMG have appointed a new Executive who does not want another Morrissey album. Instead, the new BMG Executive has announced new plans for 'diversity' within BMG's artist roster, and all projected BMG Morrissey releases/reissues have been scrapped."

The post includes a couple of quotes from Morrissey, the first of which is an extra large dose of self-pity, "This news is perfectly in keeping with the relentless galvanic horror of 2020, we would be critically insane to expect anything positive."

His second quote sees him calling out the label for dictating his behaviour, "My three albums with BMG have been the best of my career, and I stand by them till death. Recording them has been a pivotal period in my life, and I thank the previous BMG team and everyone involved for that. It's still important to me to do music my own way, and I wouldn't want to be on a label that dictates so specifically how their artists should behave - especially when the word 'talent' is notably never mentioned."

Morrissey's post hilariously states that he is "once again in search of a new label willing to release his music." Good luck with that.