Please, please, please give him what he wants; James Franco to release Smiths-inspired album and film

Please, please, please give him what he wants; James Franco to release Smiths-inspired album and film

Thought you liked The Smiths? Forget it. James Franco likes them more, and his band, Daddy, announced an album and film, called Let Me Get What I Want, all about The Smiths. Well, it’s more-so inspired by Franco’s “Poems Inspired by Smiths’ Songs” from his book Directing Herbert White: Poems. Let’s face it — this is just a drop in the cum bucket of may-or-may-not-happen Franco announcements, like the adaptation of The Disaster Artist, but he’s exceedingly prolific and The Smiths’ bassist Andy Rourke is already on board to play on every song.

We live in a time where commentary on Kim Kardashian showing her butt again is news (because we can’t hold our tongue), and, yes, eventually James Franco will run out of Faulkner books to adapt. So what’s news? Seth Rogen cast as Morrissey? Tommy Wiseau plays drums on the album? Rowan Atkinson and Franco develop a new real-time dynamic weather system for a Gex reboot for PS4? Ultimately, this counts as much as music news as Eminem offending people, so let’s just let the dude do what makes him happy. We’ll judge or ignore the final product as postmodern counter-pastiche and move on to the next forgettable moment in our lives.

• Daddy: https://soundcloud.com/wearedaddy

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