{"id":23,"date":"2014-11-12T23:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T23:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesfranconetwork.net\/?p=23"},"modified":"2014-11-12T23:34:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T23:34:52","slug":"james-franco-enlists-andy-rourke-for-smiths-inspired-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"James Franco enlists Andy Rourke for Smiths-inspired album"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>James Franco and Andy Rourke have recorded an album of songs inspired by the Smiths. The American actor and the former Smiths bassist worked with Tim O\u2019Keefe to make Let Me Get What I Want, an LP based on Franco\u2019s Morrissey-motivated poetry.<\/p>\n<p>This project is the latest release by Franco and O\u2019Keefe\u2019s conceptual band Daddy. It has its roots in Franco\u2019s first collection of poetry, Directing Herbert White, which included a 10-poem series called The Best of the Smiths: Side A and Side B. \u201cThe Smiths\u2019 songs provided inspiration for the poems, lending tone and situation,\u201d Franco explained to Vice . \u201cI originally wrote this sequence as a way to use one medium (music) to influence another one (poetry) \u2026 [But] once I had the sequence, Tim and I took the material one step further and turned the poems inspired by songs back into songs of their own.\u201dAlthough Rourke is not an official member of Daddy, he plays on every track. Daddy snuck one of these songs, titled This Charming Man, into a commercial Franco made for Gucci ; the full version was released as a video  earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>This videos is important; in fact, every song on Let Me Get What I Want will have a video, and these 10 clips form an art film. To make the videos, the musicians enlisted teenagers at a high school in Palo Alto, where Franco\u2019s mother had organised a film-making programme. \u201c[The teens] developed scripts out of the same poems that we made songs out of, then shot film based on those scripts,\u201d O\u2019Keefe said. \u201cWhile they were doing that project, we took all of the raw footage we had for each song and brought in editors to put together our film.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The heavy meta opus will be released in 2015. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/embeds.vice.com\/?embedCode=pwOWxtcTpwhwVh1FFx1Ru2k-PvF7cEVt&#038;playerId=YjMwNmI4YjU2MGM5ZWRjMzRmMjljMjc5&#038;aid=vice.com&#038;autoplay=0&#038;share_url=http:\/\/www.vice.com\/read\/watch-the-meta-music-video-by-james-francos-band-daddy-455\" width=\"460px\" height=\"283px\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2014\/nov\/12\/james-franco-enlists-andy-rourke-for-smiths-inspired-album\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Franco and Andy Rourke have recorded an album of songs inspired by the Smiths. The American actor and the former Smiths bassist worked with Tim O\u2019Keefe to make Let Me Get What I Want, an LP based on Franco\u2019s Morrissey-motivated poetry. This project is the latest release by Franco and O\u2019Keefe\u2019s conceptual band Daddy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smiths-inspired-album","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james-franco.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}