Last night, Father John Misty covered Lana Del Rey‘s track ‘Ride‘ during the ASCAP Pop Music Awards.
In addition to his performance of her 2012 track from The Paradise Edition, he also presented Del Rey with the Global Impact Award. “It strikes me as vaguely ironic to give a songwriting award to someone who just seems to effortlessly radiate songs, but I know how hard you work and what you do and I think everybody else does,” he said following his performance. “You can take all the crack songwriters and put them in a bunker for a thousand years and they would not come up with ‘I Fucked My Way [Up] to the Top,’ ever.”
Watch Father John Misty perform ‘Ride‘ below.
Last week FJM, real name Joshua Tillman, announced a new album called God’s Favorite Customer and shared two new songs. Listen to ‘Just Dumb Enough To Try‘ and ‘Disappointing Diamonds Are The Rarest Of Them All‘ here.
