Nick Cave has responded to a question from a fan as to which song he'd like played at his funeral, and nominated Kanye West's I Am A God, from the rapper's sixth album, Yeezus, released in 2013.
The question was posed to Cave on his Red Hand Files website forum by a fan named Damian. Earlier this week, the Australian singer nominated the song as one of his eight favourite records during his appearance on BBC Radio 4's long-running Desert Island Discs programme.
Speaking about this choice, Cave told the show's host Lauren Laverne, “This became, weirdly enough, a kind of family song. My kids love it, Susie loves it, I love it. It’s an extremely playful, extremely dark, complex song where on the one hand, Kanye is presenting himself as a god, and then towards the end of the song, he’s screaming in terror.”
“It’s an unbelievably deep song, in my view,” he continued. “This is a song that I value on a personal level, and actually I just think is a complete, amazing work of art.”
