Dominic Fike on Euphoria season 3 and a crazy new year’s party at the ‘Porn House’ as new album Sunburn drops
- American singer-songwriter and actor Dominic Fike dropped Sunburn on July 7 and has got songs in the new Spider-Man and Barbie movies
- He seems ambivalent about returning for Euphoria’s third season, and says he was ‘pretty messed up’ while shooting the series’ second season
When Dominic Fike landed in Los Angeles in late 2018 – this was after he got out of jail in his native Florida and after a brief spell in the US state of Colorado, where he went because he’d never seen snow – the musician and actor with the tattooed baby face moved into a nouveau riche mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
“The rent was like 30 grand a month,” he says. “It was ridiculous and disgusting. We called it the Porn House.”
Fike, whose good looks and dirtbag charisma earned him a multimillion-dollar record deal before he’d even dropped so much as a major-label single, threw a New Year’s Eve party that year that attracted “some kids who were acting out”, as he puts it – meaning one of them had punched his manager in the face, which led Fike to charge downstairs wielding a knife only to discover that the troublemakers had split.
“I was so glad they were gone when I came down,” he says. “I’m standing in this Hollywood crib at seven in the morning. People are on acid. What was I gonna do with the knife?” He laughs wearily. “I was like, ‘I should move.’”
Fike, 27, was up late last night working on songs, which he says isn’t unusual; he’s up late most nights working on songs, especially now that his days are filled with the labour of drumming up interest in his new album, Sunburn, which came out in July and which offers a moving portrait of someone trying to figure out how his past keeps shaping him.
