Jesse Rutherford from The Neighbourhood | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
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How did Jesse Rutherford transition from child actor to musician?
The band, which we get into that story, just kind of swept me off my feet. Yeah. And it turned into what it did. And even that, I kind of fought against up until, like, 30 minutes ago, you know? And, like, it becomes something that's almost, like, nostalgic. Everybody's, like, you know, drooling for 2016 right now.
And I'm like... That's so funny to me.
I know! It's funny to me, too. Don't worry about how it falls apart or falls together.
What was it like growing up in Hollywood for Jesse?
I want to ask you about that, too, if I can. Yeah, go ahead. So when you first... Shaved your head.
Are you still chronically online?
Yeah. Social media and auto-tune are my favorite drugs.
Jesse, welcome. Thank you for being on my show. Thanks for having me, dude. So I'd love to get a snapshot because growing up in Chicago, we have an idealized concept of California life. Of course, we're different generations, but growing up in the 70s like I did, you know, California dream, whether it was Disneyland or, you know, it seems so idyllic and obviously a lot of what the music business propagates into entertainment business is the idea that California is the American lifestyle. So growing up here, give me the reality of your circumstance.
Yeah, I mean, I think the older I get, the more I see how just idealistic it really was.
How has the music industry changed since the 90s?
You know, once you, like, get out and you experience other places. Yeah, middle America is very sobering. Yeah, well, and every time I fly back, I'm like, oof. i like this place yeah yeah uh makes me appreciate we felt the same way when we would fly into los angeles see that's what's always been wild to me because i would have like you know kids in my neighborhood their cousin would come visit from wherever and they'd be like we don't want to leave and i'd be thinking myself wherever i go i always want to leave and come back here but now but now i kind of get it um yeah you know but also give me sorry you also give me the like the musical environment the cultural environment so i can get like a snapshot of
for sure i mean okay so i grew up in a like a smaller suburban area about an hour north outside of la 45 minutes north of la called newberry park um and you know it's it's a upper middle class community pretty pretty safe very safe um a lot of open space a lot of parks uh you know, skateboarding. Yeah.
Um, what's the, what's the sort of, what's the sort of mix, uh, racially there?
Uh, white and Hispanic, I would say mainly. Yeah.
What role does social media play in modern music?
Yeah.
Um, cause I hear a lot of kind of soul and influence in your music, which most people maybe wouldn't pick up on.
Oh, it's not coming from there.
Okay. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, we could get to that, but I'm just, just trying to understand where the music and the person comes from is
Right, right. Well, yeah, I think my trajectory or my programming is a bit interesting because I was a child actor. So when I was like five turning six, I became an actor.
Can you walk me through that process? Because that's mystifying to me. Yeah. And I've interviewed a lot of famous child actors. Yeah.
How does Jesse define success in today's music landscape?
So that's an interesting thing because everybody has a different story. Was it like a stage mom thing or was it something you were interested in?
No, I was like discovered. I went to go see a movie at the mall. No one was discovering us in Chicago. See, that's part of it. They were looking, they were preying on us out where I was. All right, yeah. This close to the microwave of Los Angeles. He walked me through the mall and to me he's like, No, I was seeing a movie, and I was, yeah, about five or six years old, and there's a girl sitting next to me, like a, you know, teenage-ish girl, and I was just, like, being a little, and just, like, you know, talking and just giving her the play-by-play of the movie, just whatever. Yeah. And he had game back then. I mean, I wasn't even... I was just being... You know, if you say so, man, I'll take it. But, no, we walked out of the movie theater, and she went over to her parents and was like, you know, I think this kid could be an actor.
What are Jesse's thoughts on the use of Auto-Tune in music?
Anyway, they come over to my... I was with my dad, actually, at the time.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Jesse Rutherford transition from child actor to musician?
0:00–0:24
2
What was it like growing up in Hollywood for Jesse?
0:24–1:23
3
How has the music industry changed since the 90s?
1:23–2:34
4
What role does social media play in modern music?
2:34–3:13
5
How does Jesse define success in today's music landscape?
3:13–4:15
6
What are Jesse's thoughts on the use of Auto-Tune in music?
4:15–5:11
7
How does Jesse balance his solo work with band commitments?
5:11–5:55
8
What influences Jesse's artistic identity and expression?
5:55–1:27:04
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