Father John Misty has opened up about co-writing songs for Beyoncé and Lady Gaga in a new interview with Zane Lowe for the Beats 1 show. 

He co-wrote Beyoncé's 'Hold Up', which features on her visual album 'Lemonade', and explained that he didn't think much would come of the session at first:

“With ‘Hold Up’ they just sent me the beat and the hook. I wrote that first verse and the ‘jealous and crazy’ part. After we recorded I was like ‘we cannot send this to her. This is ridiculous.’ I just couldn’t. My voice is not – the song is not intended to be sold by me. But it was never an ambition it was never anywhere near – it’s completely absurd that Lady Gaga and Beyoncé are my only co-writes. Everyone else is like ‘ehhh’.”

Referring to helping pen ‘Sinner’s Prayer’ and ‘Come To Mama’ for Gaga's latest album 'Joanne', he said: “That was way more immersive than the Beyoncé thing. Oh, we were hanging. It was like five in the morning, someone handing me an acoustic guitar and I’m just like, ‘what are hands.’ We had so much fun. Mark [Ronson] – just watching him produce, it was amazing."

Watch Beyoncé's video for 'Hold Up' below: