Father John Misty on Taylor Swift: 'She fully impregnated my dilated soul'
A while back, Father John Misty AKA Josh Tillman took acid at a Taylor Swift show, because he is edgy and edgy people take drugs as a subversive act and then tell people how wacky their experience was.
It inspired Lana del Rey's "Freak" video he co-starred in -- a psychedelic journey in California featuring a shot of Lana putting a tab of acid on Tillman's tongue. Now he's detailed the experience to Rolling Stone.
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Tillman told the magazine that he ended up at one of her Australian tour dates after meeting some of her crew at a bar when he was also on the road. They invited him to come out, and he, naturally, instructed his tour manager to procure psychedelics thinking, "This is written in the stars. I'm supposed to go take acid at this Taylor Swift concert.”
He ended up having a pretty good time, much like the thousands of people who attended the 1989 World Tour un-ironically in varying states of sobriety.
"I experience the show like an 8-year-old girl — as much as that's possible for a 35-year-old man," Tillman continued. "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.'"
But Tillman's still pretty weirded out by what he considers to be her cult-leader status. And he knows what's good for young women, because he's a 35-year-old man.
"This insistence on telling girls, 'I'm normal, don't let anyone tell you what you should be.' If you wanted to curate an evening with the Grand Leader, this is what you would do," Tillman said. "It's a very, very false normal. And that's dangerous."
Tillman had a bit of a history with Swift before all this after covering Ryan Adams' 1989 covers in the style of Lou Reed. He claims that the project, which took about an hour, was meant to parody Adams and not Swift.
"I was taking this dude to task for what I saw as a grotesque stunt and matching it with another grotesque stunt," Tillman told Rolling Stone. "It ironically became the biggest publicity I've ever received, and that grossed me out. I had to take them down. Which then, of course, made it even bigger. It was such a comedy of errors."
Meanwhile, Taylor Swift probably thinks of certain Kanye West lyrics when and if she thinks about Tillman: "I made that bitch famous."
H/T Us Weekly
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Tricia Gilbride was a Reporter for Mashable Watercooler. Tricia focused on the intersection of celebrity culture and the Internet. Previously, she worked as a fashion writer and a social media manager. She also edits Women-Artists.org, a blog and annual print publication, and looks exactly like her cat.
