{"id":2270182,"date":"2026-02-06T18:51:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2270182"},"modified":"2026-02-06T18:51:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:51:57","slug":"morrissey-leaves-terrorism-lyric-out-of-new-song-notre-dame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/morrissey-leaves-terrorism-lyric-out-of-new-song-notre-dame\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrissey Leaves &#8220;Terrorism&#8221; Lyric Out Of New Song &#8220;Notre-dame&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>At this late date, it feels extremely strange to cover the rollout for a new Morrissey album as if that was a regular thing, but newsworthy stuff just keeps happening with that rollout. Last month, Morrissey announced that he&#8217;s found a label, Sire\/Warner, willing to release <em>Make-Up Is A Lie<\/em>, an album that he recorded back in 2023. We <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2484631\/morrissey-officially-announces-new-album-now-called-make-up-is-a-lie\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted the lead single<\/a> and everything. Today, there&#8217;s another new Morrissey single, and we feel compelled to post that one, too, if only to note that Morrissey is no longer using this song to sing about &#8220;terrorism.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Morrissey&#8217;s new single is a swirling, disco-influenced synthpop track called &#8220;Notre-dame.&#8221; The song is all about the fire that damaged the Paris cathedral in 2019. It&#8217;s less verbose than most Morrissey tracks, and it seems to be fixated on the idea that the fire was intentionally set, that the truth is being kept from us: &#8220;Notre-Dame, we know who tried to kill you\/ Notre-Dame, we will not be silent.&#8221; But the song no longer has the word &#8220;terrorism&#8221; among its lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>As <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/morrissey-releases-notre-dame-leaves-controversial-terrorism-lyric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Far-Out<\/em> points out<\/a>, Morrissey sang &#8220;Notre-dame&#8221; live a few times in 2023. At those shows, the song included this line: &#8220;Before investigations, they said, &#8216;It\u2019s not terrorism.'&#8221; On the studio version, he&#8217;s replaced it with this: &#8220;Before investigations, they said, &#8216;There&#8217;s nothing to see here.'&#8221; I feel like the implication still comes through pretty loudly. (We still don&#8217;t no the cause for the first at Notre-Dame, which has since been repaired and reopened, but authorities generally believe that the blaze was accidental.) Hear &#8220;Notre-dame&#8221; for yourself below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Morrissey - Notre-Dame (Official Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q44JiUwa2Xg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Make-Up Is A Lie<\/em> is out 3\/6 via Sire\/Warner.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this late date, it feels extremely strange to cover the rollout for a new Morrissey album as if that was a regular thing, but newsworthy stuff just keeps happening with that rollout. Last month, Morrissey announced that he&#8217;s found a label, Sire\/Warner, willing to release Make-Up Is A Lie, an album that he recorded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2270183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Morrissey-Leaves-Terrorism-Lyric-Out-Of-New-Song-Notre-dame.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2270184,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270182\/revisions\/2270184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}