Portrait of Morrissey as the "outsiders' outsider": one whose "obsession with the margins of culture and society...fuels this uncommonly extreme devotion of his fans." Veltman also details many of the allegations of racism that plauged Morrissey in England and eventually drew him to move to the U.S. Unlike many other articles, this one comes to terms with the fact that Morrissey might really be a has-been, regardless of his adoring fans; the Smiths have been much more influential, and contemporary Morrissey is just reprising the past. Veltman ends with the idea that Morrissey's image as a pop-culture-hating outsider might just be that: an image ironically cultured by the media he claimes to despise.