Jack Antonoff
5/4/20262 hr 17 min
Jack Antonoff (Bleachers, everyone for ten minutes) is a Grammy-winning producer, songwriter, and frontman. Jack joins Armchair Expert to discuss growing up as an unsupervised middle child in suburban New Jersey, processing profound family loss at a young age, and finding early identity through obsessive music discovery. Jack and Dax talk about grinding through DIY touring as a teenager, the evolution from punk purist to global pop collaborator, and how environment and movement shape his creative process. Jack explains why grief clarifies what truly matters, how the anxiety of the well running dry fuels his restlessness, and why starting over is the key to staying alive creatively.
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First 90 secondsDax Shepard· Host0:00
Welcome, welcome, welcome to Armchair Expert. I'm Dax Shepard. I'm joined by Lily Padman.
Lily Padman· Host0:04
Hi there.
Dax Shepard· Host0:05
And today we have one of the most successful music producers, uh, of the last decade, and also an incredible singer and songwriter in his own right.
Lily Padman· Host0:14
Yes.
Dax Shepard· Host0:15
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, um, I was so grateful for this episode because I was in the dark on Bleachers- Mm-hmm ... and now I'm an ignor- Now you're in the light ... er. Oh my God. [laughs] One song got me.
Lily Padman· Host0:48
You're staring directly into the sun.
Dax Shepard· Host0:49
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