Everyone agreed Lana Del Rey’s video for her single ‘Freak’ was… odd, to say the least, but its weirdness may have had something to do with the fact that it was inspired by an acid trip experienced by Father John Misty, who stars in the video alongside Del Rey.
Misty, whom we’ve previously declared the funniest man in contemporary music, discussed that particular acid trip in the latest print edition of Rolling Stone, explaining that he was inspired by Swift’s performance but also found a “disturbing aspect” to it.
“The last time I took a hero’s dose of LSD was at a Taylor Swift concert in Australia,” Misty told RS, via Stereogum. “She was playing in Melbourne, and I met a bunch of people from her crew at a bar, and they invited me to the show.”
Misty promptly tasked his tour manager with acquiring the “hero’s dose” of acid for him, sensing that he was supposed to take it at the Taylor Swift concert. “This is written in the stars,” he reportedly told himself.
“I experienced the show like an eight-year-old girl — as much as that’s possible for a 35-year-old man,” Misty recounted. “It was holy. It was psychedelic. She fully impregnated my dilated soul with her ideology.”
“I remember laughing uncontrollably. I remember going outside for a smoke and thinking, ‘I need to get back in there.'” However, Misty reckons it wasn’t all good-time, psychedelic vibes and there was also something sinister going on at Tay Tay’s Melbourne show.
Image via Father John Misty / Instagram
“But there was a disturbing aspect,” he said, “this insistence on telling girls, ‘I’m normal, don’t let anyone tell you what you should be.’ Meanwhile, there are 60-foot-high images of her on screens.”
“If you wanted to curate an evening with the Grand Leader, this is what you would do. It’s a very, very false normal. And that’s dangerous.” Before you dismiss this as simply the acid talking, you’ve got to admit the songwriter, born J Tillman, has a point.
Misty has always had a way of making headlines in creative and always hilarious ways. Most recently, the former Fleet Foxes member decided to live tweet an awful Tinder date that was happening beside him at a restaurant at which he was dining.
There was also that time he trolled the entire world’s music press, trolled an unfortunate and unsuspecting Aussie punter during a Sydney gig, and released a bunch of “rejected” Pandora promos.
