Earlier this month , Chipotle released"A Love Story,“a sentimental 4 - minute ad for burrito that search like a Pixar curt and features a cover of the Backstreet Boys ' " I Want It That Way " execute by Alabama Shakes ’ vocalist Brittany Howard and My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James . It turns out James may not have been the first choice : This weekend , vocalist Father John Misty said he was offered $ 250,000 to perform the call – and turn it down !
While performing at the Newport Folk Festival on Saturday , the notoriously blunt singer - songwriter – actual name Josh Tillman – entertain festival - goers with a story about his inadequate dalliance with the fast - solid food heavyweight . " They were going to make up me a fourth part of a million dollars , " he told the crowd . " Yep . That ’s my life . I was like , ' Cool , so then I can just bribe like two Cadillacs and just crash them together . I do n’t want your crashing burrito money . ' "
AsConsequence of Soundpoints out , Alabama Shakes were the headliners of the festival the following night , though his remark did not seem directed at Howard or James in special . you may watch over a telecasting of Tillman tell his Chipotle story and introduce the track " blase in the U.S.A. , " a stand - out from his acclaimed 2015 recordI Love You , Honeybear , below .
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This incident came a only a solar day after Tillman madea extended speech , inspire by Donald Trump , and performed a shortened exercise set at WXPN ’s XPoNential Music Festival in Camden , New Jersey . That address led toa Twitter argumentwith Philadelphia set Strand of Oak . So many micro - controversies for Father John Misty this week !
subsequently , in response to a Tweet from Portishead ’s Geoff Barrow , Tillman offered up another criticism of the advertizement .
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