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Morrissey's 'World Peace' Videos Pulled from Vevo

08/22/2014
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(Radio.com) Morrissey and his (former?) label Harvest Records are the breakup that never ends. They keep calling each other and getting back together in the middle of the night then pretending like it never happened the morning after- just kidding, but that would be a lot easier to follow than what's actually been happening.

Morrissey has penned another manifesto about his label drama - yes, he claims again they have severed ties, despite the label's insistence that they haven't, and he has the breakup emails to prove it - and now he thinks that his new album World Peace Is None of Your Business is going to be pulled from shelves.

In a post on his fansite True to You, perfectly titled "Please Close the Door Behind Me," Moz talks about how his relationship with Harvest started to crumble when they wouldn't let him make a music video for any of the songs, instead offering to foot the bill for lyric videos.

"� None of [the videos] gave any clue as to what World peace is none of your business intended to be, or is," he wrote. "The films were OK, but they went nowhere and stayed there."

When Morrissey pushed back about creating a proper video for "Instabul," his label apparently told him to make another spoken word video: "The label responded with frosty aloofness, and I suddenly realized that we were not, after all, of the same species. I ploughed into them insisting upon 'proper band videos, where the band play and I sing' - an evidently confusing concept that required seven weeks of explanation, detailed graphs and several drawn up maps."

The main cause of his strife with Harvest? Label head Steve Barnett, if you ask Morrissey. The former Smiths frontman thinks his album was released only "to get Morrissey out of our Inbox."

"� Despite the blinding flash of teeth and smiles, it doesn't take much for the coin to flip and suddenly we're all compromised and shattered," he opined of his falling out with Barnett. "All you need to do is disagree with the vanity of the label boss and your beheading will be slotted in between bottles of the most average champagne on the market. Just one weak-chinned drone can assert the fist of injustice and all of our efforts are flushed away. And thus �they were."

Now Morrissey feels like the future of his album is at risk and, considering many of his videos were recently pulled from his Vevo, his paranoia doesn't seem unfounded. "I might be wrong, but I think World Peace Is None of Your Business will instantly disappear from iTunes and record stores and every download-upload-offload outlet on the planet, because Harvest technically have no right to sell it," he laments. Read his full letter here.

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