Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
Perfume Genius
“Jason” recalls a sexual encounter Hadreas had with a straight guy at the age of 23. It is “very personal but almost fiction”, as he told New Statesman magazine:
I was imagining an older man close to dying, not able to grasp all of his memories, and having someone close to him hold his hand and tel...
[Intro]
Ooh-ooh, ooh
[Verse 1]
Jason undressed me
Lying on his sheets
He did not do the same
Even his boots were on
Ooh-ooh, ooh
[Verse 2]
Clumsy, shakily
He ran his hands up me
He was afraid
Tears streaming down his face
Ooh-ooh, ooh
[Chorus]
Jason, there's no rush
I know a lot comes up, ooh
Letting in some love
Where there always should have been some
[Verse 3]
I was proud to seem
Warm and mothering
Just for a night
Even through all the drink
Ooh-ooh, ooh
[Verse 4]
We were twenty-three
Breeders on CD
When we woke up
He just asked me to leave
Ooh-ooh, ooh
[Outro]
I stole twenty from his blue jeans
I'm pretty sure that he saw me
Jason was written by Perfume Genius.
Jason was produced by Blake Mills.
Perfume Genius released Jason on Fri May 15 2020.
In an interview with Pitchfork, Mike Hadreas detailed the night that inspired this song:
He worked at a thrift store and was friends with people I knew. I had come out of a convenience store, and he was waiting for me. The weird thing about that experience is that I consider it a success story. Of...
That song is very much a document of something that happened. It’s not an idea, it’s a story. Sometimes you connect with someone in a way that neither of you were expecting or even want to connect on that level. And then it doesn’t really make sense, but you’re able to give each other something that...