The Father John Misty Thread

Have started enjoying this more once I have stopped worrying whether it is any good or not, if that makes sense?

Sometimes self satisfied, undeniably, but this > "and then he drops a song that is just plain beautiful like I Went To The Store One Day".

http://www.citypaper.com/music/music-boxes/strum-und-twang/bcp-strum-und-twang-fuck-father-john-misty-fuck-bob-dylan-listen-to-zane-campbell-20150303,0,6672882.story

Guy who has produced unknown Maryland artist Zane Campbell writes guest article for Baltimore City Paper ripping into Father John Misty and others

He starts like this:

First things first: There is no more room in the United States for even one more Father Chode or Father John Misty or whatever the fuck the newest know-it-all trippy sensitive white yuppie songwriter rehashing the ’60s is called. Will the bros and rich kids please stay the fuck out of country and folk music, for crying out loud? You have fucking ruined it beyond all repair with your literary allusions and private-school educations and insecure fake tough-guy shit. Don’t come back either. You aren’t funny or tough or witty and you are clogging up the inboxes of all the booking agents and critics with your reverb-drenched non-singing guitar-noodling ass horseshit and creating more traffic on the roadways while “going on tour.”

I know this dude has a clear motive, but he's not wrong.

laughable authenticity policing bullshit

Yup

Fjm is the worst tho

This is narcissism of the smallest difference.

No bros or rich kids in country music! Enough is enough amirite

Anyway Holy Shit seems to be the standout track to me now. Album ends strong.

Down with this kind of artifice! Up with the kind of artifice I like!

this is literally a concept album about a coffee-shop intellectual falling in love with a hipster party girl

That article's embarrassing. What relevance does FJM have to country anyway?

zero

your literary allusions and private-school educations
http://www.nndb.com/people/908/000023839/KrisKristofferson.jpg
^^^rhodes scholar

^^^bro

I like how the subeditor of that article clearly thinks there is a real artist called Father Chode

http://concert.arte.tv/fr/soiree-de-poche-father-john-misty

ILYH has grown on me a lot since it came out. One of my faves of the year now.

there's a couple missteps but yeah it's good

i generally have an aversion to stuff like this but this album is excellent.

Finally heard this. Adam Green did the kind of nice singing w some cuss words thrown in for shock better imo. The production is really nice, you can tell he wants to be Harry Nilsson, but doesn't have the bite or wit or gift w a melody of any of the aforementioned.

He killed it at Glastonbury. Reminded me of Nick Cave as a performer. Honeybear, Bored in the USA and Ideal Husband were particularly great. iplayer link for UK Ilxors:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p02v3j54/glastonbury-2015-father-john-misty

Saw this on Facebook today:

Father John Misty
1 hr ·
I’d like to briefly clarify my comments to Billboard about duality, and “where I belong” etc.
In the past year or so the question of where I’m going to go in terms of a label, publishing, etc and what I want for my career has been up in the air. I’ve never been in a position to field interest from major labels and publishers before and I’ll admit it can make you nervous and raise existential type questions like “Who am I? What do I believe in? What kind of artist am I?” etc
Drawing a line, recognizing certain dualities, or making a distinction, like I’m talking about to the interviewer, is important in terms of not becoming totally misguided in a process like this. While pragmatism is good, sometimes ideals are important too, and perhaps even more useful in making a decision with real consequences on your ability to survive creatively. I personally think I am more likely to thrive outside the major label thing and my minor brushes with mainstream levels of attention have left me with totally bewildered how anyone habitually lives with it.
I don’t harbor any delusion my music is too radically unique or subversive to be appreciated by the masses, and there are more than enough examples of iconoclast major label artists to make a case that as a rule pop art is more frequently progressive where artists like me are relatively provincial.
As a consumer of music, I only have the things that I instinctually do and don’t like, like anyone else. I tend to intellectualize, to my peril, the reasons I don't like the things I don’t like, but that’s just for cheap thrills (or at worst to sanctify my taste). I won’t bore anyone with a comprehensive list of pop artists that I like, or contrarily the non-mainstream music I don’t like.
As far as “objective judgments based on beauty” and whatever, I’m in the habit lately of blindly attacking a post-modern strawman that may or may not exist. It’s my current hobbyhorse, what can I say.
All in all, I’ve kind of lost my sense of humor with the whole enterprise of press, which is unfortunate for anyone with an internet connection.
Yours eventually,
JT

the sort of self indulgent waffle one might gladly expect from this bad artist

forgive me but one should never have to clarify anything, especially not like this

I am perhaps uncharitable but I have endured the gentleman's music

I love his stuff, but I'm not sure what this is in reference to. Tried to look him up on Billboard, but couldn't see anything related to these comments.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6746284/father-john-misty-talks-taylor-swift-1989-covers-pop-music-at-pitchfork-festival-paris

Ah.

let me guess he is looking down on this media frenzy laughing with wild abandon at his grand social experiment of whether billboard would print an interview with a musician how very clever and post modern

i...don't think he cares that much

lol @ Billboard hosebags:

It’s sentiments like that one and Tillman’s ongoing interest in bringing philosophical theories into discussions about music (he references Marx’s commodity fetishism several times)

what a way out concept, commodity fetishism

He's great and I get what he's trying to say in that statement. It all seems pretty unobjectionable.

yeah imago should dial it down a little: narcissism of small differences has never been a good look on anyone, y'know?

i am sad because i parsed the billboard url wrong -- i thought it was 'father john misty talks taylor swift, covers pop music'; not 'talks taylor swift covers, pop music'

yeah imago should dial it down a little

Why start now?

Oh, I just love the kind of woman who can walk over a man
I mean like a goddamn marching band
She says, like literally, music is the air she breathes
And the malaprops make me want to fucking scream
I wonder if she even knows what that word means
Well, it's literally not that

I think this verse opens well enough with witty FJM irony, but what's up with complaining abt misuse of "literally"?

also guess "goddamn" and "fucking" are supposed to add urgency and at same time humour bcz of juxtaposition to monotone delivery and cute music - but to my ears sounds LAME

anyway, this verse has been annoying me lately, just my 2 cents

actually it reads p well, maybe it's more the musical delivery I don't like

cause it reads like a "funny" inner monologue from a novel with a "charmingly" idiosyncratic character

hahahahahaha this guy is such a cunt

what's up with complaining abt misuse of "literally"?

He misuses malaprops as he does so, deliberately you'd think.

xp haha, maybe that's actually what I wanted to say

I'm sure it's deliberate but that particular ironic aesthetic does nothing for me, this youtube commenter get's it though:

The layers in the opening verse are amazing, the misuse of malaprop in describing the girl he perceives as trite and pretentious is trite and pretentious in its own right. This is what makes FMJ great; within every song where he lashes out at society and other people, he also questions himself and his own perceptions and understanding of what is 'right'.

just heard this bad musician for the first time on colbert

can't stomach this guy

This is what makes FMJ great; within every song where he lashes out at society and other people, he also questions himself and his own perceptions and understanding of what is 'right'.

this is what might make, like, an episode of power rangers great

^what?

looool

father john misty is hacking up his housemate, music, with a sword, but all the while he is regretting his decisions

Looking forward to seeing this brilliant album right up there in the poll.

I'm really sorry I don't like his music because I love the cover art to the Honeybear album.