The Morrissey/Buble Connection

Ordinarily I wouldn’t interrupt your busy lives to tell you about my dreams. But I want this on the public record so that if, in a few years, it should come true, I get money or at least props.

It was a short dream. Actually it was a snapshot. It was an album cover. Michael Buble had recorded an album of Morrissey songs.

It was this face, done kind of like this.

Ever since, I have been trying to imagine a syrupy crooner like Buble smearing his pouty, velvet vocals all over the maudlin, sardonic tunes of Moz. (gee, guess which one I like better?) The effort of this imagining has caused my head to collide with itself and not in a pretty way. Picture “We Hate it When Our Friends Become Successful” done all fake-loungey with finger snapping. I am so popular on the bus, I swear. Even Saint Aardvark ignores me these days.

But hey – if William Shatner can do “Common People” and Tom Jones, apparently, can do whatever he wants, including “Lust for Life” with the Pretenders (and what a horrid, horrid noise that was), I think Buble should go for it. Maybe he’d gain a bit more crossover appeal. At the very least, I’d give him a couple more years to live.