Father John Misty - Blank Space (in the style of Velvet Underground)

Father John Misty covers Ryan Adams’ cover of Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” in the style of Velvet Underground. A a contemporary classic.

[@user-jh8xv6lm9u]

The fact this was a diss track and lead to Ryan Adams having a very public meltdown on Twitter makes it so much better.

[@dasheight]

That second "Oh..." made me spit out my drink.

[@karinmyhre]

Yeah, sometimes I just listen to the first twenty seconds over and over just for that slightly bemused second "oh."

[@birdgator]

Your right, that's massive.

[@tbhv]

"if the high was worth the pain" is totally a velvet underground line

[@vraisairs9201]

For a second I thought “hold up, that’s kinda a sick lyric”

[@isabelguzmanmiranda5025]

@@vraisairs9201 That song is great. Like or hate Swift, she read all the stuff about her (most made up) and thought "Hey... that woman's super interesting, let's write about her". And the song is great. If it's not taken seriously it's because after all, people think Swift is not exactly walking on the wild side. A guy sings it in Velvet Underground feels and suddenly "cause we're young and we're reckless we'll take it way too far. Will it leave you breathless or with a nasty scar?" sounds punk and powerful... So the lyrics must have been good to begin with. If they were unbelievable at first it's because after all, people don't believe that of Swift. But it's fun that someone so... unpunk wrote lyrics that go with the Velvet Underground.

[@stavroscoates7981]

He really did nail the whole voice, right down to the dropping inflection.

[@FaithFung]

I love the "woo" part especially

[@mayamagination]

Oh my white jesus yes

[@octopus59]

This is fire. Thank you, Father.

[@hendrixlp1970]

This is fucking rock and roll right here, and I'm not talking about just the song.

[@tim3378]

Are you talking about the banana?

[@pipmarinhoo]

This genious! It actually sounds like Lou Reed!!

[@inesalves280]

basically proving anyone can sound like him haha

[@leob4403]

​@@inesalves280wait how does this prove anyone can sound like lou reed?

[@vintagepiss]

Didn’t even realised this was a Taylor swift song until half way through lmao!! So good, I love velvet underground AND father John Misty so much so this is heaven

[@EverybodyHurts7]

I didn't think it would be possible to love this man more.

[@abrahamrivas2362]

This Man is The present and the future of Music

[@mattles54]

Please be a bigger hipster. I beg of you.

[@SourDoughBill]

+Badulaques, it was a joke, you dumb homophobe.

[@SourDoughBill]

+Badulaques - like I said, one stupid homophobe.

[@abrahamrivas2362]

+mattles54 I'm not a hipster I only like his style, so please be more stupid I beg you!

[@sethcollins5536]

@@mattles54 lmaooo

[@JohnBGoodeMusic]

this is a quadruple platinum diamond golden swirl KZbin record HIT!!

[@JimmyValentimeNYC]

This makes me miss lou reed

[@belleofkilronan8565]

Same :'(

[@cgalbany]

everything makes me miss lou reed

[@jasonfinegold8383]

great satire. Father John Misty is brilliant.

[@finaltwo]

Well the song itself is a satire so it’s a satire of a satire. Deep. 😂

[@yolandapiotrowicz]

This is absolute genius

[@2K10stang]

J. Tillman as Father John Misty as Ryan Adams as Taylor Swift in the style of Velvet Underground, luv, luv, luv, lol

[@lenorelitton4427]

I stumbled upon this now and I don’t know how I’ve never heard this before. This won the innernette.

[@maxberger5079]

Sounds like he was also trying to make it a "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay" mashup

[@rangers1919]

The guitar for sure.

[@FungusMossGnosis]

Sittin' in the mornin' sun / I'm waiting for my man I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes / I'm waiting for my man Watchin' the ships roll in / Twenty-six dollars in my hand Then I watch 'em roll away again / Up to Lexington, one, two, five I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay / Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive Watchin' the tide, roll away / I'm waiting for my man I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay / Hey, white boy, what you doin' uptown? Wastin' time... / Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around? I left my home in Georgia / Oh pardon me sir, it's the furthest from my mind And I headed for the Frisco Bay / I'm just lookin' for a dear, dear friend of mine 'Cause I've got nothin' to live for / I'm waiting for my man Looks like nothin's gonna come my way, so / Here he comes, he's all dressed in black I'm just come sittin' on the dock of the bay / Beat up shoes and a big straw hat Watchin' the tide roll away / He's never early, he's always late I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time / First thing you learn is that you always gotta wait Looks like nothin's gonna change / I'm waiting for my man, ah work it now... Everything seems to stay the same / Up to a brownstone, up three flights of stairs I can't do what ten people tell me to do / Everybody body's pinned you, but nobody cares So I guess I'll remain the same / He's got the works, gives you sweet taste I'm sittin' here restin' my bones / Ah then you gotta split because you got no time to waste And this loneliness won't leave me alone / I'm waiting for my man This two thousand miles I roamed / Baby don't you holler, darlin' don't you bawl and shout Just to make this dock my home / I'm feeling good, you know I'm gonna work it on out Now I'm just sittin' on the dock of the bay / I'm feeling good, I feel oh so fine Watchin' the tide roll away / Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time Sittin' on the dock of the bay / I'm waiting for my man I'm wastin' time / walk it home.

[@GravediggerBlues13]

I would never have known the lyrics to this song otherwise. Hell, I never would've listened to it otherwise! Father John, you have made my morning.

[@merdufer]

So good. Lou Reed would be proud. May he rest in peace.

[@sofiaenger1762]

this is amazing. totally spot on.

[@xFlorrible]

I AM SO IN LOVE WITH THIS

[@UbiquitousCthulhu]

such a good troll to put this at the end of LCD soundsystem's Electric lady sessions

[@TheRemesuck]

I keep coming back to this

[@user-vn5pr5gi7y]

This is absolutely brilliant.

[@shadygroves8252]

this is too amazing

[@Czechbound]

This is GENIUS !

[@stephaniechamberlain6897]

This is a fascinating few minutes

[@bgbreakdown]

I love it!!

[@edmundau-yeung9598]

This sounds like a dream comes true.

[@yahstino]

lol, now this is a genius cover.

[@beseeingyou6]

Such a good young Lou Reed impression

[@AdonisDevereux]

Pretty much the best song I've ever heard, as it melds two of my favorite artists.

[@noahgibson-baker3200]

Taylor Swift and?

[@rangers1919]

This is our generation's Hit Em Up.

[@chaosmos24]

This came up as an auto-play and I wasn't watching this screen. I thought it actually was VU and was pleasantly surprised to see it FJM doing an incredible impression. Nice guitar too.

[@dopecat1006]

love it

[@SM-qe4wd]

Misty already took this off soundcloud, what the fuck

[@cesarmarins]

+Sm ramgator Indeed. What about Welcome to New York? No uploads?

[@SM-qe4wd]

César Marins he took down both of them! It sucks but I guess something happened. i should've saved both of them from some 3rd party soundcloud download thing.

[@cesarmarins]

Here it is mega.nz/#F!qItljRBR!AlEL0Gw3ebqImm8oXWTDng

[@SM-qe4wd]

César Marins lol nice i usually don't see mega links outside 4chan or reddit. you sure the link is safe though

[@rarethen9]

i will upload it soon

[@haiboriver]

love it very entertaining..

[@pierremcpoop]

Love it.. All versions are good!! This though..

[@jdemocrat]

I freaking love this! 😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@CaramelDermis]

This makes the lyrics sound so much better.

[@BoutYoungAnnaLee]

Maybe you should actually pay attention to what Taylor has to say. Might learn something.

[@justinhaynes9840]

@@BoutYoungAnnaLee Hahahahahaah

[@guslima1130]

@@BoutYoungAnnaLee lol chill

[@isabelguzmanmiranda5025]

This is curious. The lyrics were already pretty punk, but for some reason, when a white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman sang them, even though she was parodying the image the press (and many people) had about her, no one seemed to believe it was true. Everyone's willing to throw Swift under the bus for being like the woman in that song, but no one really believed it. Now it's sung by a man with a deep voice and in punk style and the lyrics are, of course, super punk. Marianne Faithfull complained that companies didn't want to put her singing Sister morphine, but they wanted Jagger and Richards recording it. Interesting. No one really believes blonde and blue eyed women can "walk on the wild side" (thinking about Faithfull here).

[@kirstenhazen5650]

Penpals podcast sent me here! Thanks Daniel❤❤❤

[@Zeppelinguy666]

I can't help but giggle to myself whilst listening to this :')

[@javierlouzao2981]

very well done......

[@jessicamendoza6099]

This is the BEST song ever!!!!!!😍😱😝

[@giannamocilnikar8925]

Such a badass

[@GuadalupePicasso]

Why is this so good?

[@dieterichja]

Sung this way, this song has to be about being busted while on a bender.

[@johnpauljones6549]

FUCKING KILLED IT!!! Great job!

[@FAYMprod]

in the parlance of swifties, this is everything

[@lukemyers4595]

Genius

[@deathwich0ncp]

My heart

[@melissahayes2611]

genius, what a funny man. see you in oct fjm!! x

[@TheAucoin]

Guitar chord progressions kinda makes me think of Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.

[@lonecommenter6793]

This sounds like something from School House Rock.

[@eduardon.8653]

Tillman is a fucking genius!

[@aldamayopanadjam7504]

probably one of the best parodies ever made which is also a great cover in itself.

[@isabelguzmanmiranda5025]

The original song is a parody. It's fun that the parodic lyrics fit so well with punk.

[@CheapVinylRecordsUK]

This track was added to the Friends Of Great Music Club (Facebook) playlist for September 2015.

[@TheNewVocal]

Hi from Singapore! Wish you'd have a fantastic day =)

[@annageiger710]

hooOOOoooo

[@brandongurba6351]

YESSSS!!!!

[@jdemocrat]

I love this! I wish I knew how to record it...

[@rawumber7038]

+J Dem Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh anything2mp3.com/

[@jdemocrat]

Thanks! 😉

[@RobCarrollMusic]

Nailed it

[@counterbobby]

should be called "1967"

[@tarobarf]

i love this so fucking much

[@rem0204]

am I the only one who ended up here hearing a lcd soundsystem playlist? I'm not complaining tho, I love it

[@MarioPimenta]

@rarethen9 : can I get a url to download like you did in Welcome To New York? Thank you very much!

[@georgebrooks3251]

anyone know where i can get a bootleg cut of this and B side welcome to new york?

[@fka_60113]

The backing track sounds like Sitting on the dock of the bay

[@vraisairs9201]

I feel bad that only hearing it like this makes me actually reflect on the lyrics

[@isabelguzmanmiranda5025]

. Like or hate Swift, she read all the stuff about her (most made up) and thought "Hey... that woman's super interesting, let's write about her". If the lyrics were not taken seriously unless a husky-voiced man sung them it's because after all, people think Swift is not exactly walking on the wild side. A guy sings it in Velvet Underground feels and suddenly "cause we're young and we're reckless we'll take it way too far. Will it leave you breathless or with a nasty scar?" sounds punk and powerful... So the lyrics must have been good to begin with. If they were unbelievable at first it's because after all, people don't believe that of Swift. But it's fun that someone so... unpunk wrote lyrics that go with the Velvet Underground. If it's any consolation, it's probably unconscious bias. Marianne Faithful said she wrote the lyrics to Sister morphine, but companies did not want her to sing it. Probably because she looked angelic. So it was given to Jagger and Richards. It might well be that unconsciously, blonde and blue eyed white women do not sound punk because we don't think them capable of walking on the wild side. Tell that to Faithfull... So, nice that you have noticed. Congratulations to you, not everybody does. I guess we can't avoid unconscious biases, but being aware of them makes us... well, more aware, I guess.

[@vraisairs9201]

@@isabelguzmanmiranda5025 yea I definitely have some unconscious biases around what “deep” music sounds like and around Swift’s music specifically. But if I had to self diagnose, I think it has less to do with gender and more to do with instrumentation and delivery. I mean, Nico sang with the Velvet Underground on their first album and it was great. I’ve been trying to unlearn it, but naturally, If I hear some jangly guitars, a trashy drum kit, and some talky vocals, my brain goes “oh yea they’re spittin’ some facts.” And I have thought about how most of the artists I listen to tend to be men (a fact that does make me feel a little odd) and why that is and really it’s impossible to say for sure, but I tend to think that it is more that men tend to be more common in genres I prefer rather than I prefer genres because they are sung by men. But also I don’t know how much that matters since it ends up with the same outcome. Interesting fact about Faithful. I had no idea. “As tears go by” is a banger

[@isabelguzmanmiranda5025]

@@vraisairs9201 I get the disliking more the poppy instrumentation and delivery than the gender stuff. Tay's songs in a Janis Joplin style would rock SO hard.

[@Tchikanii]

I wonder if Taylor heard this?? Aw brilliant, Josh my man

[@mikogale]

lmao this is scarily accurate

[@trey6963]

This is a better parody than anything Bart Baker will ever do.

[@cgalbany]

well, I’m a Father John Misty fan now

[@0gii]

thanks to the comments: G - B - C (walk down C, B, Bb, A) repeat and the recording is up a third (D)

[@DezmynBeattysizzlingsteaksauce]

heeeweoooooo!

[@1jckinnick]

Where can I find the other song he did?

[@rarethen9]

+Luther Blissett in my channel

[@dougwelch7813]

MAKE IT STOP! So good and yet...

[@birdgator]

ba-a-a-ad

[@bradlipsey327]

Velvet John Reed

[@ffwlpe]

*1967*

[@Ptah-Tatenen]

Could be a Velvet Underground song, seriously

[@EB-coffee]

sounds like waiting for my man

[@alexcampion2461]

it's like going to tribute concert-a thing i cannot bear to do.

[@paulgrieve5383]

haha perfect

[@antarcticolors]

he sounds exactly like lou reed oh my god

[@Croix1]

well thats genius

[@oyoyoytodd]

This song is very, very false normal

[@CapnBuzz]

I'm fucking dead LOL maybe unintentionally but I hear a hint of The The's "today is the day" in the verses

[@greytoeimp]

oh, now... oh!

[@Monika-bv8ux]

What in the name of all that is holy is this?

[@Philip-zp5wu]

lmao this is awesome

[@emudenyo]

We are not your playthings Mr. Misty.

[@Evilushka]

elm Speak for yourself. I'll volunteer.

[@marijuanastank]

Ooh now... Oh!..

[@suzukimayhem]

Is this parodying a specific VU song, or is it just in the general style of the VU? Because if it's a real VU song then I wanna take the lyrics from that and put them to the melody of Blank Space.

[@FauxCock]

+suzukimayhem I'm Waiting For My Man

[@royorbitron]

+Weston Smith no

[@peelslowlyandsee]

+suzukimayhem It sounds most like 'Sheltered Life'

[@OstrichRidingCowboy]

+suzukimayhem I believe we're going for "Guess I'm Falling in Love".

[@conordennis3699]

+Conor Meara that is what it sounds most like tbh

[@Vicente480]

This is Ground brought me here.

[@mead-wf1xu]

Sittin on the dock of the bay

[@Dysfunctional126]

Chords?

[@jonathanquonce]

Try G, B, C (walk down C, B, Bb, A) repeat

[@_Singularity_]

right, except this recording is up a third (D)

[@zeilian]

This is still the funniest video on the internet.

[@mcblahflooper94]

Honestly this is listenable