Jack Antonoff
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dax Shepard. I'm joined by Lily Padman.
Hi there.
And today we have one of the most successful music producers of the last decade and also an incredible singer and songwriter in his own right, Jack Antonoff. He has produced acclaimed albums from Sabrina Carpenter, Kendrick Lamar, Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, Florence Welch, and many more. His Bleachers albums include Strange Desire, Gone Now, Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, the self-titled Bleachers, fourth, and now the fifth album, Everyone for 10 Minutes, and... I was so grateful for this episode because I was in the dark on bleachers and now I'm in a norm. Now you're in the light. Oh, my God. One song got me. You're staring directly into the sun. As you'll hear. Please enjoy this very sweet artist, Jack Antonoff.
He's an armchair expert.
You got a coffee. Do you like Topo Chico? They're very rare now. Do you know there's a shortage? I love them. I'll take one. Yeah. I want you to have like one of our four reserves. Yeah, it's worth like $96 now. The big shortage that I'm dealing with in my life, and I know there are more important things around the world, but the kind of almond butter I like. Oh, almond butter. The kind I like. Justin's? No. I like a company called Woodstock. The one I like seems to be discontinued. Oh, no. I think I spent more money than people should spend on a homebuyer getting a case. Stockpiling it? What's so good about it? I'm a stockpiler. Me too. Tell me about it. The texture. I don't know.
How did Jack Antonoff's childhood shape his music career?
I just love it. My life outside of my work is so, like, I eat the same thing. I do the same thing. So if I get into something, it's hard for me, which I think is bullshit. I can say that loud. But internally, I'm like, this helps the thing. Oh, I see. You connect it to like your overall. Oh, interesting. Almost a superstitious way. I get really anxious otherwise. I'm painfully the same. Yeah. I just ate an oatmeal just before you got here that I eat 100% of mornings. I eat the exact same oatmeal. If I'm in a situation where I don't have my protein power or my almond butter. Yeah. I think like, oh, my sanity is really on the verge here. Here's the upside. Yeah. When you are robbed of your little comforts and you're completely fine, you're quickly reminded how fucking stupid it all is.
And it's more if I don't have to think about my life outside of the important things, the people I love, my work. Why blow you tiles on it? You tiles? Yeah, I think this is this term of like energy units for your brain. Oh, I think our friend Eric actually made it up. You tiles? Maybe we learned it from him and he does mispronounce everything. But I'm now like, that's the real term for it. We've been using it as if it's a real word. And I don't know that it is. But please use it. Sure, yeah. I mean, reality is as we... Perceive it to be. Deem it and say it. We, all of our names for things are just people like us sat and thought of them. That's true. That's that, you know. Just noises your tongue makes. This is how I feel about swearing with my children.
I'm like, it's just a noise that comes out. You assign to it whatever you want. Lately, I've been promoting my albums. I've been on the radio here and there and they're like, you know, no, fuck, shit, piss, all this stuff. I'm like, okay. And then we're talking and then cuts to commercial and they're like, you know, 11 dead and blah, blah, blah, torn apart by this gut strewn everywhere, shot in the face. And I'm like, I can't fucking just like say like this song was fucking driving me crazy. That is not a problem in the world anymore. Cursing is not. Exactly.
What experiences influenced Jack's creative process?
You know, is there a motherfucker at this point is just like means anyone like this motherfucker was talking. It's not even bad. It's colloquial. I just think the stories and words we generally hear in life feels like maybe it's time as a world that we're just like, if a kid says fuck, it doesn't matter.
Let's catch up.
My thing is like, as long as they use it, first of all, they're not allowed to use it out of the house.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–1:48
2
How did Jack Antonoff's childhood shape his music career?
1:48–3:40
3
What experiences influenced Jack's creative process?
3:40–4:46
4
How does grief impact Jack Antonoff's perspective on life and art?
4:46–1:09:26
5
What insights does Jack share about the magic of music and its impact on his life?
1:09:26–1:09:52
6
How does Jack describe the creative process behind Bleachers' new album?
1:09:52–1:10:50
7
What reflections does Jack have on grief and creativity?
1:10:50–1:11:55
8
What are Jack's thoughts on the importance of community and connection in music?
1:11:55–2:16:39