Last year, James Franco revealed that his and Tim O'Keefe's band Daddy would be creating a Smiths-inspired cross-medium album called Let Me Get What I Want featuring the Smiths' own bassist Andy Rourke, and a track from the project called "You Are Mine" has now surfaced.
In addition to the Smiths' influence, the material also draws on Franco's book of poetry Directing Herbert White: Poems, which featured a sequence called "The Best of the Smiths: Side A and Side B." The final product is slated to arrive in spring 2016 as a 10-track album with 10 accompanying videos, which blend together as an hour-long film. Franco will also be revealing a painting to match each clip, which were inspired by his 1993 high school yearbook.
In a statement about the new single, Franco said: "High school is a time of longing for the unattainable. We dream big, but we're still too young to make anything significant happen. At least I was too immature and sensitive to be the person I wanted to be. 'You are Mine' is about one teenager dreaming about another, even though they'll never be together."
O'Keefe, meanwhile, offered: "Transforming James' poems to songs took on it's own creative process which was a new direction for me. Because the words weren't written by me, I had to take on the character of the individual whose perspective I was singing from. 'You Are Mine' like many of the songs on Let Me Get What I Want expresses experiences that were relatable to my own high school experience, and therefore I had a lot of my own emotions to pull from."
Hear "You Are Mine" in the player below.
In addition to the Smiths' influence, the material also draws on Franco's book of poetry Directing Herbert White: Poems, which featured a sequence called "The Best of the Smiths: Side A and Side B." The final product is slated to arrive in spring 2016 as a 10-track album with 10 accompanying videos, which blend together as an hour-long film. Franco will also be revealing a painting to match each clip, which were inspired by his 1993 high school yearbook.
In a statement about the new single, Franco said: "High school is a time of longing for the unattainable. We dream big, but we're still too young to make anything significant happen. At least I was too immature and sensitive to be the person I wanted to be. 'You are Mine' is about one teenager dreaming about another, even though they'll never be together."
O'Keefe, meanwhile, offered: "Transforming James' poems to songs took on it's own creative process which was a new direction for me. Because the words weren't written by me, I had to take on the character of the individual whose perspective I was singing from. 'You Are Mine' like many of the songs on Let Me Get What I Want expresses experiences that were relatable to my own high school experience, and therefore I had a lot of my own emotions to pull from."
Hear "You Are Mine" in the player below.
