Latest Music Obsession: James Vincent McMorrow

Latest Music Obsession: James Vincent McMorrow

Gallery 1988's Disney Channel Original Movie exhibit includes four Halloweentown prints by Zach Newton ($45), Paige McMorrow ($50), Doug LaRocca ($25), and Julie Draws Stuff ($30).

“[James Vincent McMorrow, co-writer of Holding On To Heartache and Lucky Again] I learned a lot from him. He is someone who he just like comes across like he's got a masters in music, you know? What I mean like he's an absolute genius and just really constantly kind of challenging different ideas and trying to make things better and better. It's just really from the off I felt like I was talking to an artist, someone who had so much passion for music and he brought a lot to the table. There's a lyric that he wrote in Lucky Again about... Um ‘And if you think that guy’. I forget at the top of my head but there's a line I can't remember, we'll just scrap that. I can't remember what it was... fucking some line. Anyway, James, another one of those people that I'm like immensely proud that he's been willing to work on this record and if I said that to him, because he's so humble he'd be like, ‘Well, of course of course but honestly like I wouldn't have been able to make a record this good without these brilliant people that I've collaborated with definitely.”

-Louis on working with James Vincent McMorrow on Holding On To Heartache and Lucky Again. (20 December 2022)

via Track By Track

💙 IG posts for 3 of Louis' other collaborators on Faith in the Future: Jay Mooncie, James McMorrow, and Fred Ball.

11 November 2022, x x x

jamesvmcmorrow: late 2021 I got a phone call asking me if I wanted to come to London to meet @louist91 and possibly write some songs. A few years ago he released a statement talking about changing his path musically, instead of the immediate search for hits, he’d start with music he genuinely loved and see where it got him. Seems like a simple and obvious thing to say, but considering the amount of people just chasing hits with little regard for vision or artistry, a statement like that struck me when I read it. So I was excited to meet him and see what he was about. First day we met we all wrote Common People, second day we wrote Lucky Again. In December of last year we went back in again, finished those ones, wrote and produced 3 others that are also on this album. It was the studio line-up of dreams, @mrfredball @jmoon1066, @riley_mac. Shouts to Louis for letting us do our thing, letting a dork like me come write some weird lyrics and weird melodies, trust us to shape the vision that he had. These last few years were dark at times, but it was moments like that where I remembered why I’m obsessed w music and why it’s all I’ve ever understood. incredibly proud of the work, Holding on to Heartache is genuinely one of my most favourite songs I’ve ever been a part of.

Also I was reading something about the album and it mentioned something about the gospel choir on the bridge of that song… nah man thats’s just 200 stacked of me singing super super high in the studio out back of Fred’s house😂]

5. Three songs you wish you could forget (because listening to them hurts)

Pretty much the entire La La Land track list cause I certainly watched the movie at the wrong time in my life and hated how it ended for personal reasons. It was so unfair 😩

Another sad movie the ending of which I was expecting but damn. I stopped watching sad movies. Chest pains over fiction are not worth it hah

These songs have painful or sad associations, but I don't know if I would want to forget them, as I often view painful memories as important reminders that I have lived.

Franklyn (2008) by Gerald McMorrow

"The world was on fire and no one could save me but you

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do

I'd never dreamed that I'd love somebody like you.............."

Songwriting note from James Vincent McMorrow, co-writer on Lucky Again, Common People, The Greatest, All This Time, and Holding Onto Heartache

(Also I think McMorrow got the call in late 2020, not 2021. Lucky Again was already recorded by late summer, 2021.)

[Text of post: late 2021 I got a phone call asking me if I wanted to come to London to meet @louist91 and possibly write some songs. A few years ago he released a statement talking about changing his path musically, instead of the immediate search for hits, he’d start with music he genuinely loved and see where it got him. Seems like a simple and obvious thing to say, but considering the amount of people just chasing hits with little regard for vision or artistry, a statement like that struck me when I read it. So I was excited to meet him and see what he was about. First day we met we all wrote Common People, second day we wrote Lucky Again. In December of last year we went back in again, finished those ones, wrote and produced 3 others that are also on this album. It was the studio line-up of dreams, @mrfredball @jmoon1066, @riley_mac. Shouts to Louis for letting us do our thing, letting a dork like me come write some weird lyrics and weird melodies, trust us to shape the vision that he had. These last few years were dark at times, but it was moments like that where I remembered why I’m obsessed w music and why it’s all I’ve ever understood. incredibly proud of the work, Holding on to Heartache is genuinely one of my most favourite songs I’ve ever been a part of.

Also I was reading something about the album and it mentioned something about the gospel choir on the bridge of that song… nah man thats’s just 200 stacked of me singing super super high in the studio out back of Fred’s house😂]

this makes me wanna write about a quiet night where dean starts to question everything bc frankly, same

This is a redraw of one of my characters... sorta:P

This is the original artwork I've done years ago:

Reminded me of how much I love making art with music quotes 👀 And lead me to make the poster designs that I'm gonna post soon 😏

em’s favourite albums of 2022

artists: dpr ian / maggie lindemann / tamino / the rose / james vincent mcmorrow / pillow queens / palaye royale / florence and the machine / rain city drive / suho

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