Morrissey — You're The One For Me, Fatty

JUL 01 1992 · 12:00

Morrissey — You're The One For Me, Fatty (1992) Director: Tim Broad Era: Post-Smiths Britpop Prelude (1992) - Early Morrissey solo peak; pre-Britpop British indie-rock scene defined by Your Arsenal's glam-inflected rockabilly energy and HMV-era single culture. High curatorial value as the final Broad–Morrissey collaboration and a capstone to one of the most distinctive director–artist partnerships in British music video history. The video encapsulates the warm, theatrically intimate aesthetic Broad developed across the Hulmerist era, and serves as a primary source for studying early-90s UK indie promo production, Morrissey's solo visual identity, and the cultural moment preceding Britpop's commercial explosion. Context: Released July 1992, this video arrived at a pivotal juncture in British alternative music: the Smiths had dissolved five years prior, and Morrissey was asserting a muscular, glam-inflected solo identity via Your Arsenal—an album produced by Mick Ronson and seen by critics as a creative re-energization. The single reached No. 19 on the UK chart. The video's mix of exuberant performance footage and affectionately comic narrative vignettes reflects the era's appetite for personality-driven British indie promo filmmaking. It marks the final creative chapter of the Broad–Morrissey collaboration, lending it additional historical poignancy within the Morrissey visual canon. Director notes: This was the final music video Tim Broad directed for Morrissey before his death in 1993. The video intercuts Morrissey performing in a warmly lit studio environment—wearing a shiny red shirt against a red and orange backdrop with his band—with outdoor narrative segments. It was produced for the July 1992 single release on HMV/EMI. The single was taken from the then-unreleased Your Arsenal album, produced by Mick Ronson. Copyright credited to (C) 1992 HMV.