Earlier this week website Brightest Young Things announced a giveaway for Morrissey concert tickets - the tickets for the December 7th D.C. area show would be awarded to the person writing the best suicide note. Yes, you read that correctly - THE BEST SUICIDE NOTE. Apparently the contest was NOT a joke and the braintrusts at BYT legitimately thought it was an incredible hip, clever, and witty way to give out concert tickets. Read the comments BYT's editor, Logan Donaldson, made to Arts Desk, defending the contest:
"As with many of our giveaways we wanted to be thematic, and working under the assumption that his most enthusiastic fans would be responding to a first-chance giveaway and would be well acquainted with his maudlin, macabre persona, we saw it as a tongue-in-cheek opportunity to stoke the creativity of the Morrissey fans within our readership.
The reality of suicide is obviously horrifying, and in no way were we promoting or suggesting otherwise. We didn't foresee upsetting a few of our readers in our attempt at being cute with the giveaway theme."
The reality of suicide is obviously horrifying, and in no way were we promoting or suggesting otherwise. We didn't foresee upsetting a few of our readers in our attempt at being cute with the giveaway theme."
Being cute??? Wow. At any rate, as both Arts Desk and DCist point out, due to the outpouring of negative criticism the contest has now been pulled and all evidence of the contest has been replaced with a skull and crossbones error page.
Nice going, BYT. Stay klassy.
