Whakakihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I a ia te kaiārahi o The Smiths, i whakaahuatia a Morrissey hei "ngaro, he reo ngawari, he whakamataku, he kanohi kanohi" i whakaheke i te maha o nga tikanga e pa ana ki te puoro me te puoro toka. Ko te ngawari o te roopu he urupare ki te nui o te New Romantics, a, i te mea i tangohia e Morrissey tetahi ahua androgynous penei i nga New Romantics, i nga kaiwaiata glam o mua ranei, he nui ake te mohio me te whakaiti. E ai ki tetahi kaitohutohu, "he tangata pukapuka ia; ka mau ia i nga karaihe NHS me te awhina whakarongo i runga i te atamira; he wahine takakau ia. Ko te mea kino rawa, he pono ia", me tana puoro e "he tino pouri ana, he tino whakaaro nui, he tino whakamiharo, i kukume ai i ona kaiwhakarongo... ki roto i te hononga ki a ia me tana puoro, kaua ki te ao". I roto i tetahi pepa a-akoranga mo te roopu, i whakaahuatia e Julian Stringer nga Smiths hei "tetahi o nga roopu torangapu nui o Ingarangi", i a ia e ako ana i a raatau mahi, i kiia e Andrew Warns ko "te nuinga o nga roopu anti-capitalist". I tino kaha a Morrissey i tana whakapae i te Pirimia o Margaret Thatcher; i muri i te Oketopa 1984
Ko te whakaekenga o te hōtera o Brighton, i kōrero ia ko "te pouri anake" o taua mea ko "kua mawhiti a Thatcher". I te tau 1988, i kī ia ko te Wāhanga 28 "e whakaahuatia ana te āhua o Thatcher me tōna mauahara tūturu".