‘She fully impregnated my dilated soul with her ideology’: Father John Misty dropped LSD at Taylor Swift’s Melbourne show

ROCKER Father John Misty has detailed the time he dropped acid at Taylor Swift’s Melbourne show — and had his “dilated soul” “impregnated”. Yep.

Rocker dropped LSD at Swift’s show

INDIE rocker Father John Misty has recounted his experience at Taylor Swift’s Melbourne concert, where he dropped a “hero’s dose” of LSD and had his “dilated soul” “impregnated” with her “ideology”.

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Talking to Rolling Stone magazine, the former Fleet Foxes drummer prefaced both the anecdote and the unusual combination of acid and Tay by saying: “Certain ideas that you’d be quick to dismiss can be viewed with the significance that they deserve”.

“The last time I took a hero’s dose of LSD was at a Taylor Swift concert in Australia,” the US musician said, referring to Taylor’s massive tour down under in November. “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. I got my tour manager to get me some acid: ‘This is written in the stars. I’m supposed to go take acid at this Taylor Swift concert …’”

Needless to say, a ridiculous trip ensued.

“I experienced the show like an eight-year-old girl — as much as that’s possible for a 35-year-old man,” he continued.

Father John Misty. Picture: Ryan Wheatley

“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 it wasn’t all giggles. He began analysing the deeper meaning of Taylor’s 1989 world tour — perhaps more than anyone has or should.

“ ... There was a disturbing aspect — this insistence on telling girls, ‘I’m normal, don’t let anyone tell you what you should be’,” he said. “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.”

If you’re familiar with Father John Misty, this anecdote shouldn’t surprise you.

Last year, he began covering Ryan Adams’ full-length cover of Taylor’s 1989 album, in the style of Lou Reed. But after he posted a couple of the tracks online, he abandoned the project. He said Lou Reed came to him in a dream and told him not to do it.

And that is that.

Taylor Swift in concert at AAMI Park on her Australian tour Picture: Jake Nowakowski

Originally published as ‘She fully impregnated my dilated soul with her ideology’: Father John Misty dropped LSD at Taylor Swift’s Melbourne show