FAUX JEAN is a singing cowboy from Duluth Minnesota who now calls California home. Every Tuesday he releases a new song on his evolving album series on Bandcamp and writes about it here. Subscribe for free and hear a new song every week.
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My Loofa Wielding Fauxs,
You hear folks talking about Lo-Fi & bedroom pop and anti-folk and glitch this and garage that, but you don’t hear a lot about Bathroom Pop.
Of course, Weird AL recorded his first “hit” in a bathroom and lots of folks have used that approach; Volume 11 of the “Mixed Up Files” album series ends with a song that I’d recorded in the bathroom at work.
Anywho, good news: I’m sending more Bathroom Pop out into the world today!
On March 20, 2025, I was taking a shower and some words with this melody popped into my head.
My robe was hanging on the door next to the shower with my phone in the pocket.
So I shut off the water, squeegeed a bit, and then recorded today’s song addition to the “Mixed Up Files” album series before I might forget it, which you can listen to here for free:
Today (5/20/2025) I took the original voice memo of this song off my phone and put it in Adobe Audition to pump up the volume a bit &c. ( I was singing very quietly so as not to disturb anyone, so the original is very whispery.1)
Shortly after recording this 52 second bit, I rushed away to my bedroom to see if I could come up with a spontaneous guitar part and sing along with that.
Here are the lyrics as transcribed by the voice memo app with no proofreading:
I'm feeling the love I feeling the love I feeling the feeling I'm feeling with you by my side with the sun in the sky. It's a miracle to be here breathing. I'm feeling the love I've feeling love feeling the love and I've feeling with you by my side in the sun in the sky to dream to be here, breathing, share in the air with the one that's so fair The one who might ere the feeling Are you feeling love are you feeling the love?
I feeling I feeling I'm feeling
I think it was in 1987 that I took this photo in Munich, Germany at a political protest. This has absolutely nothing to do with today’s song addition to the “Mixed Up Files” album series, but I was was looking for a photo to add—I mean, you gotta have a photo with your newsletter, right?— and I thought I had lost this one, but it showed up in a weird old folder from a class I took on how to use Powerpoint, so here we are. This will come in handy soon. But yes, never again fascism!
I'm feeling some serious Billy Joel "Piano Man" vibes from this a cappella version. Are you feeling the feeling I'm feeling?