Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker spoke to DIY magazine today, and looked to his musical future, and the potential artists he’d want to work with. This follows Parker working with both Lady Gaga and Mark Ronson on the track ‘Perfect Illusion,’  the lead single of Gaga’s new album Joanna.

Parker explained in some detail about how the collaboration came to pass, citing Ronson as a key figure in it. “Mark was telling me he was gonna work on the Lady Gaga album, and just asked me if I wanted to be a part of it. So obviously I did! It was so left field for me, but because it was Mark I had no hesitation in just diving in headfirst. There was no fear, I knew the project was in good hands with Mark. So yeah, it just went from there.”

“Luckily it wasn’t a room full of people, it was just Gaga and Mark,” Parker continued, and despite the clear deviation from his musical comfort zone, he clearly loved working with the pair, disclosing that Lady Gaga “[She] is now the first person I’ve ever written lyrics with,” he confesses. “It was getting towards the end of the day, we were deep in that zone, writing lyrics for ‘Perfect Illusion’, and I suddenly realised it was the first time. Gaga commented that I was easy to work with lyrically, we’d bounce ideas off each other really well, and I was like, ‘Y’know this is actually the first time I’ve written lyrics with another person!’[…]  normally that whole conversation just happens inside my head. It was quite a weird sensation.”

The interview then turned to Parker’s future plans: “There’s definitely a few other things coming up,” but also acknowledging that the fame and notoriety of those he works with will now be greater than before: “You don’t have to be switched on to realise that if I do this, and then this happens… it’s just the way the music world works, you know? So there’s going to be other things happening, but I think I’d be ruining it if I mentioned who.”

The team-up with Gaga and Ronson follows Rihanna’s cover of Tame Impala’s ‘New Person, Same Old Mistakes’ on her album Antie earlier this year, suggesting that Parker’s star is very much on the rise, even outside of alternative music.