While Father John Misty’s reputation as a talented songwriter and must-see live performer has been well-established, we’ve been trying to get some sort of certifying board to have him officially declared music’s greatest troll.
First, there was that time he trolled basically the entirety of the international music media by re-recording Ryan Adams’ covers of Taylor Swift’s 1989 in the style of The Velvet Underground and claiming Lou Reed’s ghost told him to do it.
Then, he gave us comedy gold by trolling an unfortunate member of the audience at his Sydney Opera House show last year, finishing the show off by delivering an extended monologue that basically equated to a stand-up comedy set.
Now, he’s given us even more lols by unveiling a series of hilarious ‘rejected’ promos for controversial digital streaming service Pandora, in which the singer-songwriter not only takes the piss out of the company, but himself, and the music industry.
“It gets lonely out on the road, my Pandora mixtape helps me retain some semblance of an emotional existence as I sell myself piece by wretched piece, one t-shirt at a time,” Misty jokes in one of the promos, which you can check out below.
There’s also this nugget: “Hi, this is Father John Misty. You know, people ask me all the time what they can expect from my upcoming tour. I show them a picture of me on the cover of the Daily Mail, clutching a human foot, to which they respond, ‘I’m sorry, I thought you were James Bay’.”
