{"id":394562,"date":"2026-01-07T19:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394562\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T19:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T19:45:08","slug":"listen-to-a-teaser-of-morrisseys-new-single-make-up-is-a-lie-with-album-news-due-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/394562\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to a teaser of Morrissey’s new single ‘Make Up Is A Lie’ with album news due this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Morrissey<\/a> has dropped a teaser of his upcoming single \u2018Make Up Is A Lie\u2019, and is expected to share information about his new album later this week.<\/p>\n

The preview of new material comes as the soloist and former Smiths<\/a> frontman confirmed last month (December 19) that he had signed with Sire Records<\/a>, and then dropped the tracklisting for a new album on his official website<\/a> and social media platforms on Christmas Day (December 25).<\/p>\n

Initially, some fans suspected that the record would be his long-delayed album \u2018Bonfire Of Teenagers<\/a>\u2019, however, based on the new tracklist, it is an entirely new body of work, containing songs with titles including \u2018The Monsters Of Pig Alley\u2019, \u2018Headache\u2019, and \u2018You\u2019re Right, It\u2019s Time\u2019.<\/p>\n

While exact details about the upcoming release remain vague \u2013 including the title and release date \u2013 Morrissey dropped more hints online earlier this week.<\/p>\n

These included a picture shared to Instagram on Monday (January 5) that simply read \u201cJanuary 9\u201d, and a post made yesterday (January 6) that had the cryptic message: \u201cBy midnight came an outburst so much louder than a cloudburst\u201d.<\/p>\n

Now, he has shared another post that simply reads \u201cnew music\u201d, and it comes with a snippet of a currently-unreleased song.<\/p>\n

In the preview, Morrissey\u2019s distinctive vocal style can be heard alongside an upbeat, optimistic vocal melody. \u201cShe said, make up, make up is a lie,\u201d he sings, repeating the latter line before the melody drops. After a simple instrumental flourish, he then returns with a more downtrodden tone, singing: \u201cI soon return to Paris\u201d.<\/p>\n

Based on the lyrics, it is safe to assume that the song in question is \u2018Make Up Is A Lie\u2019, which was featured on the tracklist update and is the third song on the 12-track LP.<\/p>\n

With this in mind, it seems likely that \u201cBy midnight came an outburst so much louder than a cloudburst\u201d could be referencing more lyrics in the song, and January 9 \u2013 this Friday \u2013 may be the day that the new track is released. Check out the preview of new material in the post below.<\/p>\n

Although little else is known about the upcoming album, back in 2025, Morrissey did tell Medium<\/a> that he had completed another album outside of \u2018Bonfire Of Teenagers\u2019, but had been unable to release it.<\/p>\n

\u201c[It] was re-recorded in France in late 2023, and given a new title,\u201d he told the outlet. \u201cWe scrapped half of the tracks and we recorded six new ones, and so it is not the album from the beginning of 2023.\u201d<\/p>\n

Issues around \u2018Bonfire Of Teenagers\u2019 extend back to December 2022, when Morrissey told fans that he had \u201cvoluntarily withdrawn from any association with Capitol Records\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That move came on the heels of him confirming, just two months earlier, that he would be releasing the LP.<\/p>\n

Originally, Miley Cyrus<\/a> featured on the album, providing vocals to a song called \u2018I Am Veronica\u2019<\/a>. She and Morrissey recorded the song together in 2020, but Cyrus later asked to have her backing vocals removed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It appears that the decision was made in relation to the former Smith star\u2019s political stance, and his support for the controversial far-right party For Britain<\/a>. The frontman has insisted that he is not far right<\/a>, and former bandmate Johnny Marr<\/a>\u00a0said previously that the topic is something he thinks has \u201ccast a shadow over The Smiths\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Controversy around the \u2018Bonfire\u2026\u2019 album continued in 2023, when Morrissey shared a statement on his website<\/a>, accusing Capitol Records of \u201cfascism\u201d and sharing that he was \u201cquickly coming around to\u201d the belief that the company only signed \u2018Bonfire Of Teenagers\u2019 \u201cin order to sabotage it\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He doubled down on this stance later too, alleging that the CEO of Capitol was trying to derail his career<\/a>, and then claiming that he was being \u201cgagged\u201d over its release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no arts media anymore in England, therefore there\u2019s no one to whom I can sit and talk about this. The fact is, genuine artists in England are now being held hostage by people who object to any manner of alternative opinion,\u201d he said at the time, before later revealing that he had bought back the rights to the album<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As for live appearances, Morrissey will be heading out on a European tour <\/a>later this year. Dates kick off in Denmark on February 13, and the tour also includes a headline date at The O2<\/a> \u2013 his only scheduled UK gig of the year.<\/p>\n

Find any remaining tickets to those tour dates here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morrissey has dropped a teaser of his upcoming single \u2018Make Up Is A Lie\u2019, and is expected to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,1645,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-394562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-indie","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}