Lorde Watched Pamela Anderson & Tommy Lee’s Sex Tape After a Psychedelic Trip: ‘I Found It to Be So Beautiful’
"They were so free," the singer said of the former couple.
Wait, what was that? Lorde made an interesting revelation in her Rolling Stone cover story published Thursday (May 15), revealing that she once watched Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee‘s famous sex tape after taking psychedelics.
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In the wide-reaching interview, the New Zealand singer-songwriter opened up about everything from struggling with an eating disorder to dealing with a breakup after a yearslong relationship. One of the ways she ultimately healed after those struggles was through therapeutic psychedelic trips, as referenced in her April single “What Was That,” on which she sings, “MDMA in the back garden, blow our pupils up.”
After her second time taking the drugs for that purpose, Lorde recalled searching for the actress and the Mötley Crüe drummer’s adult film without really knowing why. But what she saw stuck with her.
“I found it to be so beautiful,” the musician told the publication. “And maybe it’s f–ked up that I watched it, but I saw two people that were so in love with each other, and there was this purity. They were jumping off this big boat … They were like children.”
The tape Lorde was referring to was filmed in 1995 on Anderson and Lee’s honeymoon, which they celebrated in Mexico after getting married just 96 hours into knowing each other. The intimate footage was later stolen and sold, embroiling the couple — who divorced in 1998 — in scandal.
Noting that she watched the entire tape, Lorde said of the exes, “They were so free.”
“And I just was like, ‘Whoa. Being this free comes with danger,'” she added.
The interview comes more than a month ahead of Lorde’s new album Virgin, which drops June 27. So far, the only taste fans have gotten of the LP has been “What Was That,” although the musician opened up more about the record — which she describes as visceral and rooted in bodily imagery — in her Rolling Stone interview.
“I think coming more into my body, I came into an understanding of the grotesque nature of it and the glory and all these things,” she explained. “[The album’s] right on the edge of gross. I often really tried to hit this kind of gnarliness or grossness. ‘You tasted my underwear.’ I’ve never heard that in a song, you know? It felt like the right way to tell this whole chapter.”
See Lorde on the cover of Rolling Stone below.
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