Father John Misty Writes Incredible Essay About Jenny Lewis’ New Band

Earlier today, Jenny Lewis’ band Nice as Fuck (with Au Revoir Simone’s Erika Forster, and the Like’s Tennessee Thomas) surprise-released their self-titled debut album. And, it turns out, the band bio, shared via a Facebook post, was written by “God’s favorite evolved male music journalist,” aka Father John Misty, as Stereogum points out.

It’s not much of a bio, as FJM himself admits, but rather a jokey, self-aware explanation of why Misty (a man) needs to tell the public that Nice As Fuck (a trio of women) are good. Here is a choice line:

So, look, along those lines I know it’s a little ironic, not too mention hypocritical, for someone who obviously knows better, to declare (“declaring” being clearly symptomatic of entitlement) from the tower of the patriarchy that Nice As Fuck (aka NAF aka Jenny Lewis, Tennessee Thomas, and Erika Spring aka The Tame Guys) is objectively the best all-female band in the last 25 years (like that should even matter, you know, do you describe RADIOHEAD as an “ALL OPPRESSOR BAND NO YOU DON’T”) so I just won’t.

Elsewhere, he spares the reader his “mansplaination” of “their musical DNA,” and writes that he won’t “play spot-the-influence, or condescendingly take you by the hand and patiently reduce their sound to a bunch of ‘if blank hetero-married blank and then blank subjugated her sound to blank’s sound for the sake of maintaining the relationship’’s.” Misty also gets into God (“a MALE one,” he clarifies), “pizza punk about cats,” and more.

Read the full thing below.

Watch Father John Misty perform “Bored in the USA” at Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2015:

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