Father John Misty: 'Pure Comedy' Interview | Apple Music 

This is genuine and there's nothing ironic about it. My soul feels clean.

Papa John Crispy

People talking shit on Zane Lowe, meanwhile he gets the best answers out of everyone he interviews

Pure Comedy the musical would be amazing

So awesome to see Father Bong Misery look stoned as balls here

While Zane is represented on behalf of the music journalism machine and has to water down a lot of the topics they talk about, i think the interview is well conducted and he found a way to make FJM cooperative and serious about the questions and answers here, ultimately i was glad to have watched this and hear him talk about the album in these concise and conversational explanations

I think we can all agree that this is one of the greatest albums ever it has aged amazingly and the lyrics hold up as well today as it did in 2017

Love FJM as an artist - lyrically outstanding - gets me thinking out of the box and I’m grateful for that self-indulgent journey!

Total Entertainment Forever is literally one of the greatest songs ever recorded by any artist, ever.

12:12 there’s look on FJM’s face after Zane’s comment about the evolutionary narrative of the album that seems to me to reflect FJM’s genuine appreciation that the interviewer explored the material thoroughly enough to have a worthwhile insight. It’s a really nice moment in my eyes.

i want josh to teach an seminar about poetry and english. i have never wanted to learn from someone so hard.

Don't understand the hate for Zane to be quite honest. Obviously he acts interested in plenty of music and topics that he probably truly isn't but that's par for the course with a job like this. He's not perfect but there isn't a music media figure with the same amount of clout and publicity that comes even close to being as good as Zane at what they do.

um, shit's fuego, Janet

FJM looks like he stayed up for 48 hours and then hit 15 straight bong hits

I love his self awareness when citing Foucault, I feel the same way when I bring up Kant or some shit. There's real power and "truth" in those words, but you almost have to preface it with a smile to be taken seriously. It's kinda sad but also kinda funny.

I want to see him Live so badly.

Zane aint got no sense rubbing his shoes all over Father John Misty's couch

people should honestly watch this. insightful In everyway

Was tripping ball on mushrooms and listened to pure comedy and it changed my life for ever and i am forever greatful for fjm

This man is just on another wavelength. Zane did a great job btw

Dude sounds like he just finished infinite jest lmao

Pure Comedy is the album that turned me into a fan of Father John Misty. I had heard songs from his previous albums, but I didn’t get it. Not until Pure Comedy. Love this album. Love Josh Tillman.

he looks like a hungover Ron Swanson here

THOSE SHOES ON THE COUCH ARGHHHHH

David and Josh are digressionists and masters of hysterical realism. If David was still alive I definitely think he would've appreciated Pure Comedy. It took me a realization of my own to finally come around to digging Josh's Father John Misty character. It wasnt the music it was what he left to pursue this new stuff. I will forever love Josh's pre FJM output. Chloe and the next 20th Century is a fantastic album, as well.🤙🏼🎸🎸🎸

Great convo

"It's okay to know that you don't know everything". I agree and I think a lot of religious people would agree with this. Well, the wise ones know this. Ehh

Great to see how a good (and informed) interviewer can conduct the interview that this great album deserves.

Finally Is John getting the recognition he deserves!

Buttered prawn, crispy

Dude has some insight going on. Love it.

>Says he doesn't want to sing all the time >sings all the time

FEATHER JAM MINISTRY

Love it. God damn I agree with him on a lot of topics (And I imagine he'd have something incredibly dry and cutting to say about that.), particularly on imbuing satire with power it doesn't have.

L'ouverture d'esprit ne s'achète pas.C'est un choix. Mais il faudrait en être conscient. Dope interview for sure.

"what's up man". "...... Nuthin". 😂😂😂

20:00 (stamp for personal reference) Discussing “Birdie” and the nature of freedom: our miscalculations regarding freedom and the ability to buy degrees of freedom

dont hate on Zane, he does his research before interviews and he knows what hes talking about, and during this one i thought he seemed decently genuine.

14:37 zane lows face

Beautiful album. Beautiful person!

Letters from the Earth by Mark Twain is also condemning heaven singing

it was good but it seemed so rushed. zane just blasted through the tracklist. easily could've been 3x as long & better

Imagine this interview in 2023 surrounding compliance 😁 Pure Comedy is a masterpiece.

If you look at Zane Lowe in close up shots, there’s a bit of John Lock there..

this is fuckin wild though! hes articulated in such a different way

1:46 they are looking at each other through a mirror

Watching this with Pure Comedy on quietly in the background and a cup of tea is exquisite

One thing about his idea of heaven. People think we will be floating on clouds and singing but that's not what it says

this guy is so smart

It's funny hearing about the theory of experiencing a surfeit of entertainment for the song "Total Entertainement Forever" as inspiration. I have been fairly abstinent from several sorts of entertainment outlets (foremost gaming and series binging) for some years now and I've instead started to dedicate more time to writing. Over time I noticed that all the people who I know who devoted themselves to constant entertainment during the same time have, out of sheer desperation to keep themselves entertained, never created or barely ever come up with something noteworthy to think about and it absolutely reflects the passiveness that Josh talks about in the theory. Absolute entertainment is soul-numbing.

did anybody else just read the comments during the whole video while fjm's voice was like charlie brown's teacher in the background?

anyone else trip out at 11:52

This conversation leaves me thinking that all we're gonna be as a memory to humanity is the dead guy in 'Weekend at Bernie's'... Yes, we will be Bernie... Good chat!

Don't you just love The Father

Pure comedy

Wow Zane. This is your best work.

It's weird, I had a really tough time during the whole of Trump's presidency with the daily news, but a couple of albums and especially this one might have done a great deed to keep my mind sane for the time they had just been recently released.

Josh Tillman is the David Foster Wallace of music

A fascinating exchange of thoughts, feelings and reflections from two people who know a little about what's going on.

Great interview!

Lmao I needed a dictionary open to understand everything he was saying

The glass of water was meant for them to clean their own shoe stains from the couch after the interview, right?

22:41, they let Josh slip one in uncensored :)

Tbh the theatrical thing would be a terrible idea... I imagine Roger Waters sitting in the front row smiling and thinking "I'm proud of this guy, but when does his dad come out?"

ferrero john roche

The interviewer is totally mirroring his movements and speech throughout the whole interview

Daddy John hit me

dont know why i clicked but im glad i did

Papa Got Mistycal

father john misty maior e melhor

I mean. If you're gonna get comfy. Take your shoes off.

Faster Horn Whiskey

Two quotes from Zane Lowe: "This record rocked me in a big, big way." also "What comes after "Smoochie"?" I know that hosts have to gloat over the artist they are interviewing and that's all well and good. However. Zane should be less of a nakedly phony piece of shit about the whole process. For the record, I'm a giant fan of FJM and I'm still marinating on the new record. I hated it at first, then I liked it and now I'm getting closer to loving it. There's lots to unpack. If a person comes up and says they hate the record, that's a fine reaction. If an especially "intelligent" person comes up and says they hate the record, that's also fine. Reactions across the spectrum are valid unless they get crazy (EX: this record is fascist. (It's clearly fucking not)). I'm rambling but I'm glad that FJM is at the level to be on Zane's show. At the very least he's an intriguing artist and we need much more of his ilk.

Is it just me or do they look too comfortable?

Get your shoes off the couch, were you both born in barns?!

21:00

Zane is built for interviewing people who need to be talked over to keep it interesting. Here he keeps talking over FJM & it is distracting.

Richard swift (oculus rift rhyming reference) 😂

Rather Blonde Christie

I wish he talked about smoothie more

So I'm guessing Josh has read Albert Camus's "The Myth Of Sisyphus"

Interviewer has a hard job here... The interviewee keeps slipping into truly interesting (and important) territory. And since this is Apple Music, we can't stray too far from "love yer new album, I'm your biggest fan..."-type conversations. Music As Entertainment and Music As Art filed for divorce appr. 15 years ago. In some quarters the papers, apparently, still haven't come through.

Fun

15:25

Who is being interviewed ?

theres not alot here.

FJM is on NZT

"Meaningless, meaningless," said David's teacher, "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." Ecclesiastes 1:2 I can see why he likes Ecclesiastes. In all the meaninglessness, and the meaninglessness to the meaninglessness, I can create, today more than ever, from nothing. But isn't that art? Some I have shared Pure Comedy with say "How depressing", but to me, this is true freedom. All I really have is what I say I am committed to, but that is really true even if I am not the creator of it. Right? Of course, 4 -6 generations from now, no one knows I existed. Maybe sooner.

love you josh! planets fine we are NOT! #GEORGECARLIN

AWW MAN lol

Papa must be a good fan of Rick and Morty.

Zane Lowe didn't do anything wrong in this interview. It was a good open and honest conversation.

This dude 8s ßmarter

When he speaks of "seeing the King coming" who is the person he is referencing?

i havent heard the album yet, how is it?

Who is shitting on Zane Lowe? Best interviewer in the game. he doesnt have to act cool or say some bullshit, hes full on professional and down to earth

Why does Zane Lowe shave his head ? His hairline doesn't look bad

he didn't say much really

y'all this man sometimes acts as a bouncer at Tenants of the Trees bar in Silverlake, I swear to God.

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