
James Franco’s Band Daddy Shares “You Are Mine,” Which Features The Smiths’ Andy Rourke
Let Me Get What I Want Inspired by The Smiths and Due Out in the Spring
Dec 16, 2015 Daddy
Actor/director/writer/artist James Franco and his former art school classmate Tim O’Keefe have teamed up as Daddy. The duo is putting out a film and album, Let Me Get What I Want, inspired by The Smiths (it’s due out in the spring via Kobalt/We Are Daddy). Now the duo has shared “You Are Mine,” which features The Smiths’ very own bassist, Andy Rourke. You can stream it below.
A press release promises that “Let Me Get What I Want is a concept album and film that tracks three characters as they weave through the dark ways of high school: love, death, and dreams.”
The press release also describes the film as such: “The accompanying film can be viewed as an hour-long film, or as individual music videos for all of the album’s songs. The film has no ‘beginning’ or ‘end’ point, it works like a loop (i.e. the ‘last’ video, or video 10, connects to the first video, video 1, seamlessly). The film stars Palo Alto High School students, and edited in a Lynchian style reminiscent of Twin Peaks.”
Franco commented on “You Are Mine” in a press release, saying: “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.”
The lyrics to Let Me Get What I Want are based on Franco’s previously released poems that were inspired by Smiths lyrics. O’Keefe was also quoted in the press release, saying: “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.”
(Via Rolling Stone)
Current Issue

Issue #74
Feb 28, 2025 Issue #74 - The Protest Issue with Kathleen Hanna and Bartees Strange
Most Recent
- Festival Preview: Glastonbury Festival 2025 (Review) —
- 10 Best Songs of the Week: CMAT, Nourished By Time, Goon, The Mary Onettes, and More (News) —
- Watch Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen in Trailer for “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” (News) —
- Digital Cover Story: Shirley Manson of Garbage on “Let All That We Imagine Be the Light” (Interview) —
- Rivers of Nihil @ The Meadows, Brooklyn, US, June 20, 2025 (Review) —
Comments
Submit your comment
December 23rd 2015
1:12pm
There is noticeably a bundle to know about that.
I suppose you made sure great points in features also.