If you haven’t been watching this season of American Horror Story: Freak Show, you’re missing out on another great performance by Jessica Lange, who does insane like nobody can 🙂
This season, her “Elsa Mars” is a “freak show” owner based in the 1950s who wants desperately to be a star. And inasmuch, the TV audience has been treated to several anachronistic covers of contemporary songs.
Last Friday Lange’s cover of Lana Del Rey’s “Gods and Monsters” reached the number one spot on the iTunes soundtrack charts.
“I love what [Baz Luhrmann] does with his movies like Great Gatsby and Moulin Rouge where you don’t play period stuff, you do stuff from all eras that fit the story,” show creator Ryan Murphy told Entertainment Weekly of the show’s eclectic song choices. “So we decided we only were going to highlight musical artists who at some point in their career had identified themselves as feeling like freaks or misfits or outcasts, which our people are going through.”
You can watch Lange’s eclectic performance from last week’s episode below:
