Father John Misty Takes Down “Generic Pop Songs”

Father John Misty Takes Down “Generic Pop Songs”

Father John Misty recently uploaded three new “Generic Pop Songs” to his SoundCloud. As promised with the titles, they were pop tracks with lines like, “Out on the edge/Feels like the middle/Like the middle of a prayer.” Just days later, Josh Tillman has removed the songs. Pitchfork has reached out to FJM’s representatives to find out why they disappeared.

Back in 2015, Tillman pulled a similar move, uploading covers of Ryan Adams’ 1989 covers before taking them down. In an elaborate note, he wrote that he removed the songs because Lou Reed appeared in a dream and told him, “Delete those tracks, don’t summon the dead, I am not your plaything. The collection of souls is an expensive pastime.”

Father John Misty’s new album Pure Comedy is out April 7 via Sub Pop/Bella Union. It includes the previously heard songs “Ballad of the Dying Man,” “Two Wildly Different Perspectives,” “Total Entertainment Forever,” and “Leaving LA.”

Read our new feature interview with Tillman, as well as “The Masterful Mockery of Father John Misty’s 1989 Jibes” on the Pitch.

Watch Father John Misty play “I Love You, Honeybear” for Pitchfork.tv:

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