Father John Misty Responds To Kendrick Lamar Catalog Synchronicity With “God’s Trash”
On Friday (Nov. 22), Kendrick Lamar surprise-dropped the new album GNX. It also happened to be release day for Father John Misty’s Mahashmashana, and many are discussing the similarities of the two musicians’ LP schedules over the years.
A user on X tweeted at FJM, “i’m so sorry that you happened to drop on the worst possible day to drop a new album,” to which Josh Tillman replied, “it’s okay only other times it’s happened was 2012, 2015, 2017 and 2022.” The rap great and the indie polymath both released records in those years. FJM left out that in 2018 Lamar unveiled Black Panther: The Album while he unleashed God’s Favorite Customer and that, on the same day in 2010, K. Dot dropped his Overly Dedicated mixtape while Tillman released Singing Ax (his last album as J. Tillman). Misty reacted to the revelation by posting the new song “God’s Trash” to Instagram; he’s played it live throughout the fall but it’s not on Mahashmashana. The cover, featuring Misty’s “cooked Softstars,” is a playful allusion to Lamar’s “Watch The Party Die” artwork.
On the bright side, FJM got some love from Cher, who tweeted praise for his 2017 tune “Real Love Baby.” Check out “God’s Trash” below.
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i’m so sorry that you happened to drop on the worst possible day to drop a new album
— coffee investigations (@eventualforever) November 22, 2024
— Father John Misty (@fatherjohnmisty) November 22, 2024
dude how https://t.co/tzWkv1Q8lU
— Father John Misty (@fatherjohnmisty) November 23, 2024
Father John Misty backstage at Coachella VIP in 2011: [accidentally bumps into Kendrick Lamar, mildly jostling his drink]: Oops. Sorry about that.
Kendrick Lamar in 2012, 2015, 2017, 2022, and 2024: pic.twitter.com/zHmUK2SHK6
— Eric Allen Hatch (@ericallenhatch) November 22, 2024
Father John Misty
I WANNA REAL LOVEthis is the world I want 2 live in
Didnt know (FJM) as artist, or Man.Was looking up another song & this came to me.
What belongs 2 U Comes 2— Cher (@cher) November 22, 2024