Interview with James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem about how to deal with Failure
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- I really liked this interview about failure and how to deal with it. It's no longer online at it's original source, so I uploaded it here so that others could enjoy it.
The algorithm is giving me more support than the homies 😪
Gianni Carlotta lmfaoo I feel this
Theyre not homies if they won't even support you. Don't destroy yourself because you're trying and others around you aren't. It ruined me, do everything you can to be around those who are like minded like you. Stay up and keep going!
Mr3344555 thank you! That’s actually something I needed to hear
@@Bedhead142 you're all good Gianni, you're the light in a lot of people's lives their just so deep in their holes they don't see the goodness you offer. Shrugg it off, because this is all a temporary test, and you're passing it :)
Best comment thread ever. This.
James Murphy , thank you for the honesty , thank you for sharing such deep and personal information . This means so much to me , I would say you have no idea , however , YOU do know .
this is me, exactly, except im 28 now. I have nothing much to show for myself / creative output. Just pathetic. But i love to hear this :)
Totally worth watching.
Now all i want is to hear him talk about his life and thought on stuff for like another 12h
LCD Soundsystem was my transition into electronic music, and this story is kinda related. And I literally just read through Infinite Jest. Time to turn it up a notch.
this is so inspiring!
5:08 maybe im wrong and just maybe youre right
Mental that someone who's made 4 massively critically acclaimed and some of the greatest songs of all time was just kinda, there for a while. What a guy.
RedPugie yeah, it's actually wild. There are actually a lot of celebrities who got things going late in their life.
George Clooney was a carpenter at the age of 30. Most certainly, being a carpenter is a fine career, and you can actually make a great deal of money doing it. But fuck, to imagine that such a huge star was just kind of doing normal shit until he was 30!
@@MichaelJimenez416 Yeah he just realized he was attractive and didnt stumble over his words WHAT TALENT!
@@zym6687 actors are artists
tank butt ...maybe 1/100
@@MichaelJimenez416 not a batman for sure but he's done great with everything else.
I first saw this 8 years ago when I was living with my Mum, working a shitty job. I would watch this repeatedly for inspiration and it really had a huge impact on my life. 8 years later I've achieved success as a music video/commercial director, I came back thinking I now knew it all, but it's again inspired my in a completely new way. Big up James Murphy!
That’s beautiful! I wish you luck with your future endeavours
Good on ya!
Damn. Lcd really influenced people with emotion inspiration and hardships. Life is incredible
Thats so awesome!
hell ya!
I can change, I can change
Darth Bobo this is why I fell in love
Did you do it?
@@ejancis No
@@6BURG9 You still want to?
What did it cost?
This guy is real. Change comes slowly and unexpectedly. One day it's done and you don't even know why. All this bullshit epiphany stories all these famous people tell , like "At that moment I knew something in me changed and I realised...". Yeah, bullshit. This is real life and it sucks sometimes. This ain't a movie. We all feel like we expected something different from life, every single one of us.
Well, as much as I agree with your sentiment, James did kinda mention his own realization moment in this interview at 2:48. Yes change is gradual, but I don't think all of those so-called 'epiphany stories' are necessarily bullshit. Sometimes a switch can suddenly go off in your head, and while that might not mean everything instantly changes, it can mark an unexpected beginning to a new part of your journey.
Change comes slowly and unexpectedly. But also fast and unexpectedly. And those moments of epiphanies exist and can make a real difference in life. We all expected something different from life, but sometimes you get an idea to do something with what you got. And if you haven't had one of those moments, I bet you will.
words my man!
It took me years of therapy and stagnation to realize that I might as well just follow my dreams. There was an episode of House where the protagonist takes methadone (he has a Vicodin addiction) and starts shaving and cleaning and being a kinder, gentler person and stuff. It's kind of like that for me-- Maybe I'll never fulfill my dream of becoming a professional musician, but trying to get into a conservatory provides me with purpose and I'm overall just a better person for it.
i don't think there's a celebrity that i identify with more than him.
+Ben Iuro We're all afraid of failure. We just gotta get up and do
Ben Iuro ...i agree
i feel the same
this is important
He and also Trent Reznor.
Whenever you feel depressed...
Just start a record company.
Joris van Dijk Hahahahahahah
literally me
bitch you can make a website and incorporate yourself for like $200
Not my fault ur a FAILURE
Update: 22 and started my own record company
Very cool. Very human. Admitting to envy, lethargy and all around sense of despair that stifles almost anyone at some point in their life. I just got a tremendous amount of hope from this interview.
Almost forgot to watch this today.
vagabond vigilante you still watching dude?
@@ISuckOffCops I am
@@misserpr nice
holy shit man James Murphy helped me out so much in life
+mastersoftoday same
Same here.. He went garuntor on my mortage
"I didn't take responsibility that much, i kinda of just wondered 'why my life wasn't better 'n stuff like that'.
I was lazy, but "lazy" never felt right when I heard that, when I say that to myself I'm sayin': 'I wasn't lazy, I was really afraid, I was really afraid of failing'.
All my life I've been precautious and y'know, 'I was supposed to be smart', 'I was supposed to be creative'...
Hearing those things makes you scared, that you're gonna do something stupid, or do something uninteresting, and no one will see you as 'smart' or 'creative' anymore.
I've never ever been given any credit for being hard-working or being, y'know...diligent. So all my credits were based in these attributes that I had no control of. So I kinda of just realized that I was being afraid of doing nothing or lookin' bad that I didn't do anything.
That I just did nothing. And that I can claim some sort of safety in doing Nothing."
fuck, thank you james. i think i'm going to create a poster and show it on the lcd show in a few months at colombia. this thing changed my life
More and more people these days are realizing they had this exact mindset growing up and all of them crashed as they got older, myself included. I'm just glad we're finding the words for it so we can address it head on.
*Precocious
Exactly perfectly exactly.
the exact bit you quoted was exactly the bit i had to hear to motivate me, james murphy is a legend
Take heed while you're young enough, because he's speaking my, and many of our, story; however, I lived in that fear for much longer. Now I'm 47 and just beginning to find my edge.
@@kg356 ....until they aren't
So where do I start?
@@nickpetrillo how does a mouse eat an elephant?
It's like they say: The best time to realize you must change is 20 years ago - the second best time is today.
t s ó l a r i a damn 👍
Wow, he really described my entire life in the first minutes of this. I was already the youngest on everything until I was 16. The youngest in class, the youngest in bands, dance classes, study groups. And out of nowhere I just lost interest in everything. Here I am now, about to turn 24, nowhere near graduating college, no steady job, depending on my mother. I feel bad for all the potential I had but I feel paralyzed, scared to make a change. It's a relief to hear someone else went through this same shit and made through. I don't think I want to be as successful as James Murphy. I just want to be okay. Satisfied with my life.
(that part about being bitter about popular things? totally me until like 2 years ago)
and hows it going now?
How is it going now?
And how's it going now?
Never take this video down, it's the most encouraging and beautiful interview I've seen, I love it very much.
A rare interview where the Interviewee actually gets to speak for longer than the interviewer. Really inspiring stuff.
@Daniel Lah A swedish guy who has covered music for many years now. This was on swedish state owned TV.
I wasn't really doing anything.... so that's why I.... started a record company.
yeah, that was an interesting jump.
Dhruv Vishwakarma doing nothing to doing what you want
Doing nothing might be the only way to doing what you want
I thought the same thing. He says this so nonchalantly I wanna know more about this phase of the process because that takes an insane amount of money and equipment.
Starting a label doesn't take an insane amount of money or equipment. About 15 years ago lots of distribution companies would pay for the manufacturing of the vinyl. So the start up costs were quite slow.
i watch this every week
John W I relate
so, it doesn't help?
why
Better do something, dude)
It's not an interview, it's a monologue! It's great!
Hery Ratsimihah It always is with James Murphy....he likes to hear himself.....spends the other 50% in his own head.
Great interviewer! It just barely nudges him with mumbles..
Wow as a 25 year old now, this speaks so much to me, not a musician like James but there are a lot of things I hold back from because a fear of failure not because I’m lazy like so many seem to think. It’s time for me to get my act together in a lot of ways and give myself a shot at happiness.
Well, you wont know if you fail if you dont try!
the only time you fail, is if you don't try. If you try and "fail"....you are one step closer to success.
This always makes me feel better.
me too
The ultimate late bloomer: LCD soundsystem is an absolute phenomenon. Great insight here....and he's right. We don't value hard work in our society (look at the minimum wage...basic work will leave your absolutely derelict). We value ego, projection...materialism. LCD is a beautiful respite from the grind of human shallowness.
This resonates so much with me it's not even funny.
Yeah first time I watched it I just cried. Watched it like 4 times in the last few hours ;_;
Like a hammer to a gong, hard
this is important
palmeater important video playlist?
Good idea. Any other videos you could recommend?
As with mostly everyone here, I really needed this. He just articulated everything I've struggled with for the last 10 years in a more concise fashion than I ever would have.
7:40
"It was the first time I made music where I wasn't trying to be another thing that I thought I was supposed to be. I was just trying to be as much myself as I possibly could."
Amen.
This video has been one of the most important catalysts for change in my life.
i'm in my office alone at the moment, someone i knew from back home ended their life the other day and it's weirdly affecting me, more than i thought it would. I'm also coming to terms with an eating disorder and general self image issues, struggling to connect with the people around me because i fundamentally don't respect myself. I feel like the algorithm could see this and popped this to the top of my feed to help me out, which is an insane thought but a comforting one
2:10 - 3:08 is an incredibly important conclusion to come to. The earlier you can realize this, the better.
james murphy biopic when?
+RadekLoquendo I was totally thinking about a James Murphy biopic about a month back. I'd love to see that happen.
So right on. But I was in my late 40s when I started writing fiction seriously, after decades of fear of failure and not trusting my instincts. And only now, at 55 does it seem possible this career is going to work out. I’m writing the weird stories I need to write and they’re connecting with people. And I’m suddenly hardworking and effective, as James discovered.
rabbitfishtv May I read something of yours please?
Sure, Chachi. You can find links to much of my work, including excerpts for each piece at jmarshallfreeman.com
this interview is carved into my brain
right? So true.
My son turned me on to your music. Thank you for for being such an inspiration to him. I watched this interview and thought wow, that's Will Newman's (my son) life. I see why he resonates with you. Thank you for your honesty. Love your music. He met you in Nashville (he lives there) and we loved learning about you.
dropping out of college doesn't make you a failure. be good to people and have some self respect and you will never be a failure. even if you work a mcdonalds it doesn't matter just do the best you can.
John Brown okay, well, that’s not entirely true. If you can’t even support yourself, that’s not good
What if you don't have self respect?
Guess it depends on what your definition of success is. For James, I think it was a few measures more than being a good person (important as that might be to him), for others it might simply be living a good honest life like you're saying. That's the terrifying beauty of life- it's up to you how you want to define your life and your goals. Never listen to the artificial expectations other people and society thrust upon us. Unless you have kids lol. Then you've gotta provide. Otherwise, it's all up to interpretation
He's saying that decision wasn't true to himself, not that a college dropout is a failure. Years later he would make good on that decision, but at the time he realized he was just dropping out as an escape and an excuse to avoid responsibility for himself.
Yeah, he threw parties, and Daft Punk came!
"10% of all groups are alright" hahaha one of my favourite lines.
"Really afraid of failling and looking bad, that I did nothing"
Fuck, I need to change. I'm getting a little better, but I should be doing more.
I really love JM because he doesn't try to act like a rock star or anything. This is one of the most honest interview I've ever seen. It' so refreshing
I had the honor of hanging out with him during a Dj gig in Rio de Janeiro. He was really natural, fun and charismatic ; he makes you feel good just to be around him, for real. Exactly like this video. God blesss!!!
@Compliment Thief true that ! 😂😂😂
meu deus que sonhoooo, james deve ser mt gente boa mesmo
I’m not gonna say “omg luckyyy” because James is a normal person, like me. Sure, I’d love to hang out with him, but there are plenty of people like him out there; just not enough. Glad you got to meet him and have that experience
Knowing he dealt with so much of the insecurities i have feels so reassuring. I’m glad i found this video
this video is more inspiring than every single jordan peterson lecture put together
@jackshit33 amen to that.
Clean your room lol
@@gregbors8364I read this in his voice Hahah
One sees their behind-the-scenes while only catching glimpses of other’s highlight reels.
Keep moving forward.
Very nicely put
I watched his newer interview and he kind of goes into more depth with this experience, and it made all of this make more sense. He talks about how failing allowed him to succeed, and allowed him to no longer be afraid of it. Basically, allow yourself to fail, make music even though you know you will probably fail, then take what you learned from it and you'll make yourself better. Go into your situation knowing that failure is an option, and allowing yourself to be okay with that option, because failure means you gave it a shot, and giving it a shot is better than sitting around and doing nothing. Failure can still give you a gain. You make something that nobody is interested in, well now you know nobody is interested in that, and you learned skills along the way. Failure paves the way to success, so just go fail already, and appreciate the fact that you gave yourself the opportunity to fail!
newer interview? where?
When I was young, all I wanted to do was drink beer and get laid, unfortunately you need money for even that, so I got a job. I remember driving around in my 72 Torino drinking beer with my buddies wishing we had girls. Now I drive around with my wife wishing I had beer. And the kids only call when they need money. Its kind of cool.
Self awareness is a super power. Very inspiring interview, so different from many artists who see themselves as self-made
I am 26 years old right now and needed to see this. I have been dealing with a mental block of not doing the things I need to do for the last few years. I have been afraid of failure, afraid of looking bad, and afraid of not looking smart. I know what I have to do. I will just make it. Stop overthinking and worrying. Just make it. I don't know if I'll succeed but try, fail, learn, try again, iterate
Thanks for uploading this. I couldn't express my utmost gratitude as I've stumbled onto this video at the right time in my life. Thank you!
Anyone else hear him say "Infinite Jest" and get a shock? He read that?! I just finished the book a month ago and it blew me away
Dude went to NYU for lit. He was actually offered a job to write for Seinfeld but turned it down. Real smart guy, but as he mentions, you can't get proud of yourself for having attributes you can't control.
Interesting. I listened to LCD when I was a sophomore a few years ago, just got back into them. I love that he is so honest in his interviews. He's not afraid of trailing off and seeming normal, saying something that might be seen as boring. I see Wallace's interviews the same way. My favorite part of "Shut Up and Play the Hits," was Murphy talking about David Bowie, and how Bowie and other rockstars are kind of like legends, rock gods. Murphy seemed to try to demolish that image; I can't picture Bowie shaving in the morning or crying after his last show.
@@bradyedge3627 Interesting. Seeing the real person behind the 'idol' is important to realise that these people are human. This video proves that. Also on the topic of David Foster Wallace: reading 'Although of course you end up becoming yourself' by David Lipsky was eyeopening for me-it showed how painfully self-conscious DFW was and how his writing came out of periods of despair. Even after the relase of Infinite Jest he felt subpar. There's a letter he wrote to Don Delillo (his literary idol) asking him for advice.
It gives us all hope to see this sort of reality behind immense works like Infinite Jest or LCD Soundsystem's great albums. They're products of flawed humans.
Feel like every white dude’s problems can be traced back to Infinite Jest
i...what....i...shit..i....love this 10 minute blanket of comfort. also afraid.
i go back to this every six or so months
this video is so important to me, I will always come back to it. Just lifts you up and makes you laugh. It's comforting to hear these words and that it's never do late to do something great.
James Murphy is the man.
But what he's saying here is that he wasn't always the man. What he's talking about is perfectionism. Being scared to do something not perfect. "Really afraid of failing". Building the challenges you see off in the future into a bigger and bigger mountain until you're too scared to approach it, to even try to climb it.
I never knew this was me until recently. So, guess I'm writing this to clue others in, if you're in the same place. Don't get down, stay up.
I've listened/watch this a bunch lately. Great dialogue with himself. My take away: Once a person drops the prejudices and starts engaging the world on their level the person can start to discover their place in the world and start to doing very big things.
Here again ..
i feel you dude
I'm 27 and I just saw this the other day and it will alter the course of my life. Thank You
How's it going? I just turned 27 today and feel exactly the same
same
It's been over three years. How are you doing?
same
Korridor? This is way too much of a coincidence. I just turned 27. Hope you're well.
The real trick to how everything changed for the better is subtle, but it is mentioned: “I went to therapy.”
am i the only person watching this who got that warm feeling in their stomach while watching this, like everythings gonna turn out alright in your life
Me too, bud. Me too.
Was relating until he said "...and then I became cool." I feel like he yadda yadda yadda'd the part I could really use
I think he means cool as "feeling good", not so much as "looking cool"
I am 26 and I relate a lot except I am a filmmaker and not a musician. I have had several moments when I would look up what age Spielberg or Lucas were when they made their first features and it depresses me that I still feel far from that. It is encouraging to hear he was able to overcome and make it work.
I'm currently studying the career of my dreams. Translation and Interpreting. The problem is that I don't know how to study. My techniques are poor and not successful. And if i fail one subject one more time, my college will kick me out. Another problem is that I have depression. So even if I study for a test and I get a 5 out of 10, I feel so down. So down. Like the world is above my shoulders. Another thing that I realized is that my mind works so slowly. I learn really slow, and all the other students catch up really quick. I don't know why. When my friend successfully passes an exam, instead of motivating me to study more, I get sad. In that sense, my mind works backward. I don't know why. I just hope not to drop out of college.
I live in the south of Brazil! Porto Alegre! Almost at the end of the world! And I remember the first time I listened to Losing My Edge, 2001, on a obscure website with new electronic and strange and psychedelic music bands that I can't even remember the name of the site anymore and if I could download the MP3 in 128. All I know is that when I heard LCD I freaked out and downloaded it on same hour. I think I spent a year listening straight into my headphones until the cd finally came out! Years later, LCD came to play here in the city at a steakhouse! I don't know if they'll remember! I just know that I really miss new music! There are a lot of good things going around, but the LCD is definitely missing! Cheer's from Porto Alegre. South Brazil!
I'm sure this story is the same for loads of musicians and creatives. I gave up trying to make music happen in my early 20s when my band broke up then last year just thought fuck it and started a solo project and started putting stuff out. There's no rush, just keep moving forward
Love his honesty cuz it makes you realize that we are all there (in his spot) at some point but keep plugging away and plugging away and no matter how much doubt, fear, etc you have it doesn't matter because he and many others have done it-- so can we!
he's talking about the guys who ran Optimo, a club night in Glasgow which ended in 2010. JD Twitch and JG Gilkes.
this speaks to me as a 28 years old
This is my current life right now. Honestly speaking.
I don't think i have put in enough work.
man, just found out this was recorded on my 18th birthday. i'd like to think that it's a message from somewhere. I'm a failure too, i'm 25 and i'm scared to look unintresting and uncool with what i could do in music.
"I was lazy. But ‘lazy’ never felt right when I heard that, when I said that to myself. ‘Oh, you’re lazy.’ It wasn’t that I was lazy, I was just really afraid. I was really afraid of failing. All my life I had been precocious and I was supposed to be smart and I was supposed to be creative. And I think hearing those things, makes you scared that you’re going to do something stupid or do something uninteresting and no one will see you as smart or creative anymore."
This guy is so much like me in this interview that I want to hit my head with a cheap frying pan.
He sounds like a good chap.
“I’m not good at my life, I’m just bad at it.”... I felt that on a spiritual level 😂
God, i knew you were alright. “Loosing my edge” Is by far my favorite LCD song
same. great in every way.
Thank you so much for posting this. So current and applies to anyone, anything and everything :) Spot on.
Damn hearing this rn makes me realize how much I relate to James. I just hope I end up doing something.
I always enjoy down to earth stories of how someone's life went from going nowhere to actually getting somewhere. It's just a shame that I'm a 35 year old drunk earning £20k a year who's never had a promotion and has no ambition left.
You can do it bud! James did it you can as well.
James Murphy sounds like the most perfect uncle one could possibly have
We're all going to make it bros
Dear James,
I am a failure as well, what do I do
magic conch: nothing.
Sorry. I'm not James. Find something you love and that has some sort of impact (morally or commercially), continually learn everything there is to know about it, become the expert, surround yourself with good people. Life's much more fun that way.
keep talking to people you trust. no one figures it out on their own. don't shut yourself away. keep talking. for god's sake keep talking.
Just do whatever, it doesn't matter, really.
Start a record label
This is motivational to me and then he's like "until I was about 26..."
So this is an interview about not crushing it in your early 20s? So it's not normal to have been drunk, high, and face down on Hollywood Blvd at 23? Huh.
There is hope
"i'm not good at my life." never heard it put that way
I really needed to hear this. Thank you so much.
What a great story of courage and changing from a fixed to a growth mindset.
Wow, I'm 26 and just don't know what im doing with life. Nothing. I am so scared.
I can't even express how much this helped me. To know that it is ok to fail. That it is important to try again.i was always pretty dubious growing up of this notion.
Coming back for this again. Greetings from 2023.
Weird synchronicity at work. Have just discovered both David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest and LCD SS within a month of each other. Murphy is very engaging indeed in conversation, just like he is with his music, as I've begun to discover.
Losing My Edge is one of the best songs of all time.
26!? I'm 46. I've done everything and nothing. College, bands, chicks, ocean life guard, army medic, combat veteran, cop, plebotomist, food and beverage manager at a Hilton, author, homeless, and biochar engineer. You did what I never did, that makes me feel like I did nothing!
Then a life passes by. Be here now but never real.
I just turned 25 last week and have that feeling of being lost and not knowing where my life’s going. This couldn’t have come at a better time.
40 last week. Don't let it take this long.
Turned 26 last week, wanted to check in. In the last year my life improved 10 fold. I got a new job, and then a promotion within 9 months. I work at a company I love, I have made new friends that will remain my friends until I die. Life can change, and life will change - give it time.
@@jackw6259 congrats.
I'm in the same boat as he was right now. Turning 26 on the 10th and I haven't done anything. Dead end job, debt, no education. Things will get better though.
therapy, what a luxury, it's unknown in many countries and ... even in the US how many people can really access it and make a connection that helps?
Please never delete this video. I love it, I can really empathise with him, it's never too late to stop being complacent and do something with your life.
All this time I thought he was British