The Father John Misty Thread

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.

https://devonrecordclub.com/2016/04/20/father-john-misty-i-love-you-honeybear-round-89-nicks-choice/

Great stuff. You really nail what makes this record so good there.

Thank you. It's easily the record Em and I have spent the most time listening to and talking about since the sprog was born, I've been absolutely fascinated with it in a way I've not been with another record in a long time.

even as a huge FJM fan, has to be said he came across as a bit of a self important tosser here. somehow Radcliffe and Maconie's (very) mild joshing seemed to rattle him. although Maconie was perhaps unnecessarily uppity. at last night's gig he called it 'one of the worst moments of my life'. pretty easy life he's had then.

also he appeared according to follow up tweets to think it was *local* radio! as opposed to the leading national radio audience he could possibly have had at that moment in the UK.

http://www.stereogum.com/1877059/hear-father-john-mistys-awkward-interview-on-bbc-radio-6-music-today/news/

class comments to the youtube-version:

Josh has answered all of these questions hundreds of times before/they misinterpret the whole point of the Father John Misty persona/the guy has been touring for literal months and would be stressed as fuck at two middle-aged dudes who don't have the slightest idea at what his act is about and probably don't give a shit either, who are just trying to engage with him on a purely superficial level

Seemed less "car crash" than I'd expected from the internet.

Have never listened to "Radcliffe & Maconie" before (though used to listen to "Mark & Lard" and have read decent things by Maconie) and I could see why an interviewee might find them irritating.

wow an ironic prius ad now i really want to listen to this guy

New album PURE COMEDY out April 7th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cejjqC1oyQM

lookin forward to it

I liked both of the albums a lot but the new song honestly belongs in rolling worst '17

nah sounds good to me. a bit reminiscent of the closing track on the last album

it's basically a retread of the sentiment from "Bored in the USA" only even more thuddingly obvious and attached to a neverending plod. he's much better when he's in self-effacing/mocking mode

have to avoid coffee shops for a couple of years now jeez

fucking hate him he is the worst

you guys are all wrong

Every once in a while I'll feel a little guilty about not keeping up with 'indie rock' the way I used to, and then I remember that people in 2017 actually take this fucking guy seriously, and I go happily back to my psych reissues and Fact mixes

"Father John Misty"

lol

your power rangers joke was hilarious and infinitely smarter and funnier than anything this guy has done

Joke's on you guys imo

Farter John Shitty

his cover of Lennon's "God" last year was p great

tracklist!

Pure Comedy
Total Entertainment Forever
Things It Would Be Helpful to Know Before the Revolution
Ballad of the Dying Man
Birdie
Leaving LA
A Bigger Paper Bag
When the God of Love Returns There'll Be Hell to Pay
Smoochie
Two Wildly Different Perspectives
The Memo
So I’m Growing Old on Magic Mountain
In Twenty Years or So

Vinyl pre-orders will receive a 7” single featuring the first physical release of fan favourite “Real Love Baby” on the A-side and the as yet unreleased track, "Rejected Generic Pop Song.

the idea of a 13 minute fjm song is terrifying

I think someone like Randy Newman makes ironic pop tunes work v well, but FJM seems so self-important and clever abt it makes you wanna punch his face

it's basically a retread of the sentiment from "Bored in the USA" only even more thuddingly obvious and attached to a neverending plod. he's much better when he's in self-effacing/mocking mode

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, January 24, 2017 8:39 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Exactly what I felt. Like, be more on the nose.

seems like he's made friends again with BBC6

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04rw622

the 13 minute song is present and correct.

word around the campfire is that the album's amazing.

the campfire that is not ilx