Taylor Swift, eat your heart out. While the pop songstress might be a PR team’s dream client, with a meticulously constructed image as best friend to every one of her millions of fans around the world, even paying off their student loans, has she ever invited them over to her place for coffee?

Well, Mac DeMarco has. As Pitchfork reports, Mac DeMarco’s eight-song mini-LP Another One is slated to drop this August and the songwriter has already shared half the record with fans online, unveiling the tracks ‘No Other Heart’, ‘The Way You’d Love Her’, ‘Another One’, and ‘I’ve Been Waiting For Her’.

But one of the songs not yet given an official release, ‘My House by the Water’, offers a surprise to fans. At the end of the track, DeMarco gives out his home address in Far Rockaway, New York and invites the listener to come over to his place and enjoy a cup of coffee with him.

And it’s not just some joke, either. DeMarco’s dead serious and as he revealed in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, following the leak of the mini-album a few weeks ago about 30 people have already arrived at his house eagerly awaiting a cup of joe with their hero.

“The way I rationalize it, to have the address you’ll have to listen to the album to the very end,” he told the Journal. “Second, to even consider coming to my house you have to be a kind of a super fan.”

“And thirdly, it’s in such a weird part of New York that if they actually get there, they deserve a cup of coffee.” Indeed, as the Journal notes, it takes a trek of more than two hours to reach DeMarco’s “kind of sketchy” neighbourhood, situated at the end of a subway line, on the edge of a bay overlooking JFK Airport.

There you have it, folks, Mac DeMarco is truly a man of the people, though one that must be getting down to those last few spoonfuls of Nescafe.

So next time you want to brag about your best Twitter buddy Taylor Swift, remember that she never invited you out to a bad neighbourhood near an airport to serve you coffee.

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