The Last Jedi Director Rian Johnson Releases John Darnielle’s Star Wars Song: Listen
The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle has recorded a new song about Star Wars called “The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones.” The song began as a joke between Darnielle and Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson (who previously collaborated with Darnielle on Mountain Goats videos), and eventually evolved into a real recording. As the title suggests, the song is about a Jedi that consumes the bones of other Jedi. It features self-referential lines like, “The cameras Rian’s got these days are unimaginably high-res.” Listen below via Johnson’s SoundCloud account. The Last Jedi is out December 17, 2017.
…I was joking around with @rianjohnson about his big Star Wars news, and the joke was “have you then rejected my song?”…
— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) January 30, 2017
…whose title, at that point just an of-the-moment joke, was “The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones.” …
— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) January 30, 2017
…@rianjohnson responded, right here on twitter dot com: PLEASE WRITE THIS. Who am I to turn down the guy who directed “Ozymandias”?…
— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) January 30, 2017
…not me, not this guy. I set to work immediately. It is important that the world learn the truth of this Jedi. But where to host?…
— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) January 30, 2017
…I don’t know if y’all know this but a lot of people are into Star Wars. So I wrote to @rianjohnson, and I’m like, here’s the tune, right.
— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) January 30, 2017
So @mountain_goats and I were joking around, one thing led to another, he recorded this song and now it’s canon. https://t.co/0vCdZTO6iO
— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 30, 2017
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