In what's becoming a tradition for Stereogum, the publication interviewed Flaming Lips frontman and Miley Cyrus collaborator Wayne Coyne about the year of 2015 -- touching on topics including Kanye West's VMA speech, Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid and the killing baby Hitler Twitter debate.
The publication had Coyne review the year of 2014 but back then, he didn't have a lot going on. This year, he was in headlines for his work with Cyrus on her psychedelic pop album, Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, and a reissue of his band's 1995 album, Clouds Taste Metallic. So it seemed like he had more to say than usual.
On Trump, Coyne thinks it's all going to turn out to be one big practical joke. "I kinda got the feeling if he won he'd be like, 'You know, I was just kidding. Give it to the other guy,' Coyne said in the interview. "I had this feeling like it'd be 'I knew I could win, and now that I've won, I don't even give a sh--.' He can't really be thinking he's going to be president, can he?"
Coyne was also with Kanye West at the VMA's, suggesting he was probably too high when he gave his now famous impromptu speech in which he announced his run for president in 2020. "He hadn't decided whether he was going to do a song or just talk, I kinda felt like he got up there and was gonna do one but didn't have his earpiece with him and was like, 'Oh f---, I gotta talk,'" Coyne said. "He's great at that, he always makes a moment."
Earlier in 2015, New York Magazine asked its readers if they would kill baby Hitler if given the chance, and reporters started asking the questions of presidential candidates. Coyne doesn't think he could pull himself to do it. "I think you'd have some kind of guilt and some kind of aftermath that you would wonder, 'What a horrible person I am. Have I become the Hitler?'" Coyne poetically stated. "Luckily, we never have to decide."
Read the full interview over on Stereogum.
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