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Jack Antonoff talks new Bleachers music and more with the Klein.Ally.Show in the KROQ studios.
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00:00K-Rock, we are Klein Alley's show. I didn't realize that's one of Jack Antonoff's favorite bands right there, Green
00:04Day. True? True or false?
00:05Where'd you hear that?
00:06On the way in, Vanessa was saying he likes Green Day. Good intro song for you. We're going to play
00:11Bleachers. We got a bunch of Bleacher stuff coming up, but we decided let's put on the Green Day.
00:14I was happy that you did both those in a row. Some people cut them up on the radio.
00:18Yeah.
00:18But I love that album. I like Kerplunk and Insomniac. Those are my two favorites.
00:23Yeah, you're like a real music, I mean, obviously, understandably now, you're responsible for, I don't know, some of the
00:28biggest songs.
00:29I really like music.
00:29Yeah, you're a real music guy, but like a lot of people, oh, hold on one second.
00:33Klein is not a music guy.
00:34I'm not a music guy.
00:35Yeah.
00:36Yeah, it's tough. I can't figure it out.
00:38Yeah, but you know what? What an interesting perspective. Right? Guy who...
00:43Guy who works for a radio station doesn't really get music.
00:46So when you queue up songs, you're like, here's another one. I don't get it, but here it is.
00:49Well, that was one. Here's another one. This one, don't get it either.
00:52I like songs, but I don't have the... I don't know how to feel emotional about music the way that
00:57so many...
00:58Like, I'm sure you do that regularly.
01:00Do you care... Do the lyrics touch you?
01:04When Dave Grohl says, I will breathe you in, so you breathe out so I can breathe you in, that
01:09hit me.
01:10Okay. Because I always feel like, you know, sometimes you meet people who are like,
01:14oh, I don't care about lyrics, and I think that's the... No offense. I'll talk to you.
01:17I think if someone doesn't... I think if someone doesn't care about lyrics, that's like,
01:21there's a chance they're gonna, like, chop up some bodies later in life.
01:25I see. Yeah.
01:26Well, I think for Klein, you're more...
01:28And do you think that's a fair assessment?
01:30Yes.
01:30I think what's hard for Klein is just sitting with something.
01:33Oh.
01:33To really sit with a song.
01:35Especially at a show.
01:37If we're at a concert, or, you know, almost because of Christmas, whatever it is,
01:40to really just sit and take in the environment, take in the song, and really let it sink.
01:45Well, let's go deeper. When was the last time you cried?
01:47My dog died.
01:49Oh, no.
01:49Your daughter sang.
01:51Well, my daughter sang at graduation, sang a song called Penis Pasta.
01:56Well, no, that was a made-up song that she made, but it was one small voice.
01:59She sang a song at her kindergarten graduation.
02:01And you cried?
02:02I got a little choked up.
02:03A little choked up?
02:04Yeah, a little.
02:04Okay, but do you ever just, like, come home and weep?
02:07Not really. I probably should.
02:08Are you in a marriage?
02:10Yes.
02:10Okay, and you never just come home, and you're like...
02:12I sent my car in the driveway before going in.
02:15And weep.
02:15And weep.
02:16About going inside, or about life?
02:17Yes, yes, about going inside.
02:18Oh, okay.
02:19Well, you know, you might have enough...
02:21You might have, like, a bit of a house of cards construct happening,
02:24that a deep song might just blow the whole thing to pieces.
02:28That's what I'm afraid of.
02:29Like, when you were at a K-Rock...
02:30You're afraid of breaking.
02:31I'm afraid of breaking.
02:31And when you were at K-Rock's Almost Acoustic Christmas,
02:33I was afraid of last year or the year before,
02:35but I watched the entire set,
02:36because I enjoy watching musicians do what they do on stage.
02:39I'm always blown away by it.
02:40But you don't want to listen to what I'm saying, because you might...
02:42I don't want a break.
02:43You don't want a break.
02:43I don't want a break.
02:44Well, you know what?
02:44That's fair.
02:46I once had an analyst who I was asking if I should talk to someone about something,
02:50and they were like, no, because it would break them.
02:53Oh, I see.
02:53And it was a simple moment that actually changed the way I was like,
02:55oh, yeah, interesting.
02:57You know, everyone's got their own construct.
02:58You feel like some doors should just not be opened?
03:01Yeah, and some people, you know, can accept penis pasta,
03:05and that's the ceiling.
03:07And that's Klein.
03:08Yeah.
03:08That's my ceiling right there.
03:10But, hey, you've got an album coming out in May.
03:12People are excited, and obviously, you know, I don't...
03:15Maybe it'll break you.
03:16It may.
03:16That's the one...
03:16Well, maybe what if this is the one?
03:18Yeah, what if this is the one where maybe I come back here in the summer,
03:21and you're like, he's on a...
03:23He is a mess.
03:24He's gone.
03:24He had to go somewhere for a little bit.
03:26He had to check your...
03:27They found him in his driveway.
03:28I think that's beautiful.
03:29Well, listen, we're going to listen to it in a second,
03:31but You In Forever is a beautiful song,
03:33and your wife, your new wife, is in the video,
03:36which means you got to direct that.
03:38And do you actually control that,
03:40or does she still control what she does?
03:43Oh, she controls everything.
03:44Yeah, she does.
03:44Yeah, the best part about really loving the people around you
03:50is completely...
03:52That complete trust.
03:53So, like, my circle, right,
03:55like, is a pretty closed door when I make music,
03:56but the people whose opinions I really look for,
03:59like, when I play music at home,
04:00like, yeah, hers, family members, you know, my band,
04:03like, that's that really core group
04:05where it's like, how does this hit you?
04:06Everyone else can get fucked,
04:07but, like, how does that hit you?
04:08Whoa.
04:09Well, you can't say that word.
04:09That's okay.
04:10Oh, no.
04:10Did you dump it?
04:11We're dumped.
04:11We're dumped.
04:12If it made it on the air,
04:13it's going to be a $50,000 fine.
04:15No, really?
04:16$50,000.
04:16$50,000.
04:17Did you bring it with you?
04:18I will...
04:19So what happened?
04:20Did everyone hear me say
04:21everyone else can get beeped?
04:22They just heard you talking,
04:24and then all of a sudden,
04:25it went to, like, some weird...
04:26And now we're probably still glitching a little bit.
04:29Anyone else, when I'm making music,
04:31can, you know, is for the birds.
04:32Can F off.
04:33Yeah.
04:33Oh, you can say F off?
04:34Yeah, you can say that.
04:35Ah.
04:35So, but your wife, as far as...
04:37If you're working on a song,
04:39are you bringing the finished product,
04:42or are you like,
04:43hey, I've got a melody in my head,
04:44and I want to see what you think about it?
04:46No.
04:46Songs, until they're finished,
04:47are much like Klein's emotional structure, right?
04:51Like, they're so delicate.
04:53Yeah.
04:53You know what I'm saying?
04:54Yes.
04:54And they can break.
04:55So you have to be so careful with them.
04:57It's why I never let people come in the studio
04:58and play stuff,
04:59because it's not right yet.
05:01You know what I mean?
05:01And it can be destroyed.
05:03So when I'm finished,
05:04oh, yeah, everyone can hear it.
05:06Like, this is an expression of my soul.
05:08Go off.
05:09Tell me what you think.
05:10I don't...
05:10I want you to connect.
05:12I don't...
05:12Whatever.
05:12You know what I mean?
05:13Right.
05:13But when it's in this fragile state,
05:15it's so...
05:16Only a few people can hear it.
05:17Who I know are meeting me without...
05:20Because you don't want to be met with people's shadow.
05:22Right.
05:23You know, like, you tell someone,
05:23you play something to someone,
05:25and I don't want their life experience thrown on it.
05:31I'm still molding it.
05:32When it's done, yeah.
05:33But if it's a Bleacher song,
05:34versus the pressure of that,
05:35where you have kind of complete control,
05:37as opposed to a song that you're working on for someone else,
05:40be it a Taylor Swift,
05:41or any...
05:42Insert any of a number of a thousand other...
05:44Lana Del Rey.
05:45Do you feel a different sort of pressure?
05:47Yeah, but it kind of goes through the same filter with me.
05:50Like, I keep things really insular.
05:52You know, everyone's got their process, right?
05:53Like, you know, I heard a story once that...
05:55I don't know if this is true,
05:56but it's a story that lives in my head,
05:58that, like, Jay-Z went out to a restaurant,
05:59and he brought everyone from the restaurant back to the studio,
06:01and was, like, doing his vocals while everyone was there,
06:03and he, like, needed that audience.
06:05And I was like, oh, how interesting.
06:06I thought it was interesting,
06:07because it's the opposite of what I would ever do.
06:09You have your way.
06:10And if you're true to it,
06:12you just get closer and closer to the things that matter to you.
06:16Me, closed doors.
06:17You know, I don't like a lot of people around.
06:19I need to be in, like, a really protected space to make what I make.
06:22And when you are coming up with, say, new...
06:25Like, if you're working with an artist on a new album of theirs,
06:28and helping them find and express what they want to express in that moment,
06:32are you also working on bleacher stuff on the side,
06:35or are you separating, like,
06:36hey, this is my time to work on my stuff,
06:39or are they both happening simultaneously?
06:41I'm having a total panic attack about not cursing now.
06:44Oh, don't worry about it.
06:45We've all done it multiple times.
06:47No, I don't feel bad.
06:48I just, like, literally now all I hear in my head...
06:50Is the F word?
06:51Worse.
06:51Yeah.
06:52But, okay, so back to that.
06:55Okay.
06:56Are you thinking about calling Allie the C word now?
06:58Because we all are.
06:59If that's what you're thinking about.
07:00I was not thinking about it,
07:01but for the record, you evoked that.
07:05You've opened that door.
07:06No.
07:06No, okay, my life is a lot less structured than people would imagine,
07:10so every once in a while there'll be, like, a session, like,
07:12oh, okay, like, you know, Bleachers guys,
07:16we're going to get there for this week and we're going to do this.
07:18Record I'm producing, we're going to go here for this week and do this.
07:20But most of the time, I wake up in the morning,
07:23and I go to the studio,
07:24and it's weaving between different things, right?
07:28Oh, I want to track drums on this song that I'm working on with Lana.
07:31Cool, let's do that.
07:33All right, great.
07:33Let's leave that for later, see if it's cool.
07:35Oh, there's this Bleachers song that's been in my head.
07:38Like, I want to try to record it 4 BPM slower.
07:41I think what we did, it was too buzzy.
07:43And if I continuously am just moving through things,
07:48then when I leave the studio,
07:50I am in the world and I listen back to the work tapes
07:53and I just know what's good.
07:56The studio is a place that's like, I'm not thinking, I'm just doing stuff,
07:59and then I decide later.
08:01So it's not hard for me to vacillate.
08:03I don't know why.
08:04Right.
08:05How often, Jack Antonoff, do people say to you,
08:07hey, we should work on something together,
08:09because obviously you've got that Midas touch with songs and musicians,
08:12and you've had no shortage of monster hits that you've been responsible for.
08:15And you have to give them the,
08:17sure, that sounds fun, but you know in your head
08:18we're not really ever going to work together.
08:20Does that happen a lot,
08:21or are you open to all sorts of collaborative projects?
08:23No, I'm pretty closed off,
08:26but it's not hard because I think it's like,
08:28you know, it's not,
08:29I don't know, it's serious stuff.
08:31It's like, you know,
08:32there's only so much time and I want to have a life,
08:35so I'm not ever crap.
08:37But sometimes it's like, oh,
08:38I love what you're doing,
08:39but I'm so in Bleacher's world right now,
08:42or I'm working on this thing right now
08:44and I'm just there.
08:45You know, it's not,
08:47it's so weird.
08:48I think it's a lot like relationships in general.
08:50It's like, if something comes along that excites you,
08:53you have all the time in the world.
08:54And if something,
08:55you see something that looks like
08:57you just don't really want to be there,
08:58it's like you want to be anywhere else.
09:01You know what I mean?
09:01Like being on the wrong hang,
09:04or like, you know,
09:05maybe you go to a restaurant sometimes
09:06and you're just like,
09:07oh, this is cool, I'm happy.
09:08I want to just like stay here.
09:09Sometimes you sit down in a restaurant
09:10and you're like,
09:10get me the F out of here, right?
09:12It's like that with music.
09:13So based on that,
09:14are you willing to sit around
09:15and stay with us through this break
09:17so we can continue talking after this?
09:18Are you going to ask me to make your record?
09:19Do you have to be?
09:20Yes, I am.
09:21All right, here's the record.
09:22It's going to be horribly offensive.
09:23It's called About to Break.
09:25Yeah, I love it already.
09:26Oh my God.
09:27More with Jack Antonoff
09:28after this quick break on K-Rock.
09:29K-Rock.
09:31K-Rock.
09:32K-Rock.
09:33Bleachers on K-Rock.
09:34Mr. Bleachers himself,
09:35Jack Antonoff,
09:35is in the K-Rock studios.
09:36We're going to listen to a brand new song
09:38off the yet-to-be-released album
09:40coming up called
09:41You and Forever.
09:42Video's already out,
09:42song is out,
09:43and we'll talk about that.
09:44But Jack, thank you for,
09:45first of all,
09:46hanging out
09:46because it means
09:47that you didn't come up
09:48with an excuse
09:48to leave this interview early.
09:50Does that happen a lot?
09:51Yes.
09:52No, it doesn't.
09:53What are the excuses?
09:54Did the gorillas have an excuse?
09:55Gorillas just took my coat
09:56and left,
09:57but I think
09:58he claimed he had allergies,
10:00but we think Jamie was sick,
10:01maybe.
10:01We're not sure.
10:02Oh wait,
10:02when were they here?
10:03Yesterday.
10:03But not on that mic.
10:04Jamie was not on that mic.
10:05That was Damon's mic.
10:06You're fine.
10:07Yeah, you're okay.
10:08This is Damon's mic?
10:09Yeah.
10:09So am I going to become very...
10:11No, don't do it.
10:13You're going to start with it.
10:14I'm a jacket though.
10:15Do not ask for my jacket.
10:16You can have Klein's jacket.
10:17You don't want my jacket.
10:18Jack's got plenty of good clothes.
10:19I need my jacket.
10:20You know,
10:20when we were talking
10:21to gorillas yesterday,
10:22I thought of something
10:23to talk to you about
10:24because they're very anti-AI.
10:26They understandably,
10:27they don't want to incorporate it
10:28into their artwork
10:29or anything like that.
10:31You use a lot of different tools
10:32when you're creating music.
10:33Do you feel like
10:34there is a world
10:35where we can,
10:36as creatives,
10:37work with AI
10:38or you think it's
10:38an all or nothing?
10:39It's an all or nothing situation.
10:40Nah.
10:41No slop.
10:43Because there's got to be
10:44little ways to utilize it
10:45that can make things
10:46more effective in the studio, right?
10:48Eh, not for me.
10:49I don't know.
10:50You know, I mean,
10:51I don't even really...
10:53You know,
10:54everything has to be aspirational, right?
10:56If,
10:57like I...
10:58For example,
10:59I watch videos online.
11:00One of my calming things
11:01is people building things, right?
11:03Like, you know,
11:03laying like brick and stuff
11:05and building.
11:05It just calms me.
11:06Something I can't do.
11:06I think it's interesting.
11:07I got a video recently
11:08of a robot doing that
11:10and I didn't even think twice.
11:11I just moved on.
11:12It wasn't interesting to me
11:13because the aspirational quality
11:15is this person's building a house.
11:18Maybe I could do that.
11:19I won't,
11:20but maybe I could do
11:21something like that.
11:21Maybe I could do something
11:22like that in my life.
11:23Another good example, right?
11:24Let's say you go to Klein's house
11:26and he's got a Picasso
11:27and a Picasso print
11:28and they look exactly the same
11:30and he was like,
11:30this is a print,
11:31this is the real one.
11:32You're going to walk
11:32right over to the real one
11:33and take it in
11:34and what you're going
11:35to think to yourself
11:35is, oh wow,
11:36Picasso's hand was near this.
11:38Blah, blah.
11:38Oh my God.
11:39It's so cool.
11:39As opposed to the print.
11:41Because it triggers something
11:42in you about your own
11:43potential greatness.
11:45That's the thing with,
11:46I think obviously AI
11:47will do a number on the world
11:48in terms of jobs
11:50and all these things,
11:50but when it comes to art,
11:51it just doesn't matter
11:52because I have to know
11:54that this came from a person
11:56because that triggers the idea
11:58that something good
11:59could come from me.
12:01So it's,
12:02you know,
12:03in art,
12:04if it was going to have
12:05taken over,
12:06I would have heard so many,
12:07you know,
12:07here's Tupac rapping this,
12:08here's blah, blah, blah,
12:09and there's no care.
12:10And then I hear something
12:11that someone made
12:11and I recognize it immediately.
12:13So, yeah,
12:14I don't even think to.
12:15If anything,
12:16I kind of love how
12:17when I go into the studio,
12:18all of a sudden,
12:18I feel like I'm engaged
12:19in like an ancient ritual.
12:20I feel like a monk
12:21or something.
12:22Or you're going back in time,
12:23sort of.
12:24Or just living
12:24in a suspended time
12:26of like,
12:26this is something I do.
12:28I did it when no one
12:29paid me to do it.
12:30I did it when no one
12:31asked me to do it.
12:32I do.
12:32I,
12:33this is what I do.
12:35Period.
12:36And anything could happen
12:38in the world,
12:38anything could change
12:39and this would be
12:39what I do.
12:41And that's a very calm
12:42place to live in.
12:43I've seen that video
12:44of the robot building
12:45the house before,
12:45by the way.
12:46It's fascinating.
12:46I watched it all.
12:47I watched it till the end.
12:48I didn't look at it
12:49the same way,
12:49but I guess I should have
12:51because you're right.
12:52But it's like,
12:53you also root for humans
12:54to succeed
12:54and not robots
12:55because like,
12:56if you think about the Olympics,
12:57you're watching something
12:58going like,
12:58this is amazing
12:59that this human being
12:59can do this.
13:00I hope she wins.
13:01I hope she wins.
13:02And then when you see
13:03a robot trying to make
13:03a delivery,
13:04you're like,
13:04fall over.
13:05Get hit by a car.
13:06Come on.
13:06Get destroyed.
13:07Why do you root
13:08for that human being
13:09to succeed?
13:09It's about yourself.
13:10Because you see yourself in it.
13:12What's the gold medal
13:12in your life?
13:13What are you trying to do?
13:14I love that feeling.
13:16I get so much
13:17when I see someone
13:18do something
13:18that feels great.
13:21I want that for myself.
13:23Right.
13:23I think,
13:24you know,
13:25there'll be massive destruction,
13:26but I think there'll also be,
13:27which there already is,
13:28an amazing spin
13:29into, like,
13:30a really interesting wave
13:32of humanity.
13:32I mean,
13:32God,
13:33everyone's going to shows.
13:34Everyone's,
13:35it's really,
13:35you feel people's pain
13:37and what they're crying out for.
13:38And,
13:38you know,
13:39Klein was just weeping about it
13:40when we were on the break.
13:41Yeah,
13:42I sure was.
13:42He was screaming,
13:43I'm going to break.
13:44I'm going to break.
13:45He's wiping his tears.
13:46You know,
13:46listen,
13:47I think,
13:47I didn't realize,
13:48but we were talking about Jews,
13:49so I think we have something in common,
13:51which is just a deep,
13:52self-hate,
13:53deep,
13:53deep sort of guilt,
13:55guilt,
13:55self-hatred,
13:56which is why I'm going to play you
13:58something right now,
13:58because,
13:59listen,
13:59obviously,
13:59you're amazing at making music
14:01for yourself and for others,
14:02and you've worked with some great talents
14:03like Taylor Swift,
14:04Lana Del Rey,
14:05Lorde,
14:05Sabrina Carpenter,
14:06but they're great,
14:06and let's be honest,
14:07they probably didn't need you.
14:09They were great.
14:10You made them better,
14:10but they were great.
14:12How would you produce this song?
14:14Jack,
14:15how would you produce,
14:16this is a song that Ali challenged me to create,
14:19because I said that I was,
14:20is this,
14:20I don't want to hear the,
14:21is this the pasta song?
14:23No,
14:23this is not.
14:23This is a different song.
14:24this is an original song that Klein wrote.
14:25This is an original song.
14:26You wrote the song.
14:26As a producer,
14:27because I don't like the fact that in music,
14:29all the songs are about big ass,
14:31there's all these songs in the history of time
14:33about big asses.
14:34All these songs.
14:35There's some.
14:36There's a lot of songs.
14:36I wouldn't say there's that many.
14:38Oh,
14:38the his alley.
14:39How many songs?
14:39Apple bottom jeans.
14:40There's a lot of big ass songs.
14:42That's one.
14:42You know what?
14:42There's not any songs about medium asses.
14:45Oh,
14:45okay.
14:45Regular size.
14:46You've never heard medium ass?
14:48Listen,
14:48I made this song,
14:49and you tell me.
14:51So many songs about big asses,
14:53but I do speak for the masses.
14:56May not be pretty,
14:58may not be cute.
14:59Interesting.
14:59No cap love for the average group.
15:02Big but small,
15:03but I say pass.
15:04Hello,
15:05ladies,
15:06medium ass.
15:07Medium ass.
15:09Medium ass.
15:10How would you produce that better,
15:12or is it already perfect?
15:13You know,
15:14I think that came from within,
15:17and I think that's more important
15:19than any opinion I would have,
15:20you know?
15:21This is what's bringing him
15:22to the breaking point.
15:22This is it.
15:23This is why I'm hanging on by a thread,
15:25dude.
15:25I think that you think,
15:27right,
15:28that that song
15:29should reach the people.
15:30I do.
15:31So go off.
15:33You know,
15:34if you,
15:35if you even need my opinion,
15:37then.
15:37I've already lost.
15:38So if Klein was to ask you
15:40to produce his album,
15:41would you say yes?
15:42To his album?
15:43Yeah.
15:43If he said,
15:44I,
15:44I'm now,
15:45I've got the bug,
15:46I want to make an album,
15:48and I want you to help me.
15:48Do you want the sincere answer
15:50or the joke answer?
15:51Huh.
15:52Can we do joke first?
15:53No.
15:56And now how about sincere?
15:58The sincere answer is
15:58the way I work with people is,
16:00so let's say I heard
16:02medium ass
16:03and thought it was cool,
16:04right?
16:04Which I do.
16:05Uh-huh.
16:05You know,
16:06I think it's.
16:06That's real.
16:07Yeah.
16:08Then I would want to hang out
16:09with Klein.
16:10Okay.
16:10And understand,
16:11you know,
16:11it's kind of like.
16:12So like a kind of a date?
16:13Yeah,
16:13just to understand if,
16:14and then,
16:15and then that moves
16:16into proof of concept.
16:17You could like someone,
16:18you could like their work,
16:18but not be able to mix
16:19anything together.
16:19It's a really delicate thing.
16:21I think
16:23the worst thing Klein could do
16:24is to get in his feelings
16:26and in his head
16:27and just leave it at medium ass.
16:28If I was Klein,
16:29I would keep working.
16:30So,
16:30so it seems like you want
16:32to make songs
16:32that are about
16:33these spaces
16:34that you feel like
16:35are undiscovered,
16:36right?
16:36in music.
16:37So like,
16:37for example,
16:38like maybe you think
16:38everyone talks about
16:40making love in songs.
16:41So maybe you want to write
16:42a song just about
16:42second bass,
16:43I love second bass.
16:44That's another Klein thing.
16:45It's the best bass.
16:45It's the best bass.
16:46Or self-pleasure.
16:46You're a fan of that as well.
16:47How about Wednesday,
16:48Ali?
16:48We wrote a song about Wednesday.
16:49We did write a song about Wednesday.
16:51The week that never gets
16:51any love in music
16:52is Wednesday.
16:53Maybe your album's
16:53called The Middleman.
16:55Cool.
16:56And maybe you write,
16:57you know,
16:58nine or ten songs
16:59about this kind of thing
17:00and just don't let
17:01anyone stop you.
17:01And then when it comes out
17:02and everyone's like,
17:03Klein,
17:04this sucks,
17:05then you just,
17:06how do you know
17:06that's what they're going to say?
17:07Then you just,
17:08you move to the next
17:09body of work.
17:10We're still in the
17:10serious answer,
17:11by the way.
17:12Oh,
17:12that's the serious answer?
17:13I want the joking.
17:14So The Middleman,
17:15you know,
17:15like,
17:15and you,
17:16you know,
17:17unibrow,
17:19gap tooth in the middle,
17:20all middle things,
17:21right?
17:22Just middles.
17:23You think you're saying this
17:23and you're going to leave
17:24and we're never going to do this?
17:25We're going to make the,
17:25spend the next year
17:26working on this
17:27and we're going to force you
17:27to come back
17:28and hear all these stupid songs.
17:29You know what would be really cool?
17:30Is if like track seven,
17:31you just like paid the license
17:32and just on your album,
17:34it played The Middle
17:34by Jimmy Eat World.
17:35Oh yeah.
17:36You didn't cover it.
17:36In the middle of the album.
17:37Just one real song.
17:39Yeah.
17:39Like,
17:40I got to take a break now.
17:42And then it's the middle
17:43and you just singing along
17:44sometimes.
17:46Let's play a real song
17:47and now you guys deserve it.
17:47This is called You In Forever.
17:49It's by Bleachers
17:50and obviously the video's amazing.
17:51Your wife is in.
17:52Anything you want to say
17:52before we put it on KROQ?
17:54It's just,
17:54I'll say after.
17:55Okay.
17:56Take a listen.
17:57Enjoy.
17:58It's Bleachers on KROQ.
18:01Klein,
18:02Allie,
18:03Joe!
18:03Mornings on KROQ!
18:05106.7
18:06K-R-O-Q
18:09You In Forever.
18:10It's Bleachers on KROQ.
18:11First time I heard it on the radio.
18:12Seriously?
18:13Yeah, it's so cool.
18:14Does it still have that magic here?
18:15Hell yeah.
18:16Yeah, the way the radio compresses music
18:18sounds different.
18:19It's magical.
18:19Thanks for playing that, guys.
18:20That's so cool.
18:21Thank you for being here.
18:22Thank you for playing the KROQ shows
18:23over the years.
18:24Thank you for stopping by
18:25to hang out with us
18:26for the last hour.
18:27Jack Antonoff is in the KROQ studios now.
18:29Is it traffic hour out there?
18:31Always traffic hour.
18:32Really?
18:32Always and never.
18:33I feel like everything
18:34is just merged at this point.
18:36Like, it's all one rush hour.
18:38How long has it been
18:38since you've been living here full time?
18:40Here?
18:40Yeah.
18:40I don't live here.
18:41Who told you that?
18:42I thought you did live here
18:43for a period of time.
18:44Oh, yeah,
18:44because I used to see you.
18:45You used to be my neighbor.
18:47I live, I do the opposite.
18:49I live in New York from New Jersey
18:50and we moved back to Jersey,
18:53which I think New York to Jersey
18:55is the opposite of New York to LA.
18:56Right, absolutely.
18:57In some ways.
18:57But I like you here.
18:58My only problem here
18:59is I don't have a place to,
19:00I don't have a house.
19:01I mean, you stay in hotels,
19:02you don't relax.
19:04I can't sleep in hotels anymore.
19:06I used to be so comforting.
19:07I can sleep like a dead person
19:08because I've learned that from Tora,
19:09but you relax in like
19:11the Skittles and Bedway.
19:12You don't relax in the like
19:13Homeway.
19:14Existential I'm Home.
19:15You know, like when you get home
19:16and you just break down weeping.
19:18Just break down crying.
19:19Crying that part.
19:19That's another thing that makes me feel
19:20like I can't do that in a hotel.
19:22Right.
19:22I can only do that in my own driveway.
19:23So, new song, new album is on the way
19:25and then I'm already being asked
19:27about shows.
19:28Oh, yeah.
19:28Are those, I assume,
19:30hopefully happening?
19:31I booked a tour.
19:32Oh, great.
19:33I didn't announce it yet.
19:34Oh.
19:34Until right now?
19:35I mean, there's a tour.
19:39There's a big tour.
19:40You know what?
19:41I don't, you gotta go to the people.
19:45You gotta go around the world.
19:46I don't like this like,
19:47I booked, you know,
19:48a hundred shows in one area.
19:50You come to me.
19:50It's like, it's the whole feeling.
19:52It's like, they're in my town.
19:54I grew up with that.
19:54You know, like,
19:55when bands would come to Jersey
19:57or like, I mean,
19:59obviously, we'd go to the city
20:00a lot to see them,
20:01but it's like,
20:01I'm more emboldened
20:02than ever to tour.
20:03To like, go and play
20:05all the cities
20:06all over the world,
20:07but specifically in America,
20:09it's like,
20:09the audiences are so different, man.
20:11What happens in Salt Lake City
20:12is totally different
20:12than what happens in LA.
20:13You get to the Bay Area,
20:14even San Diego,
20:15it's a whole different scene.
20:16You get to like,
20:17Phoenix,
20:18and that's like,
20:19it's so exciting
20:20to go deliver it,
20:21and I feel like there's
20:22this trend now
20:22where it's like,
20:23no, no, you come to me.
20:24Yeah.
20:25And I think the glory of touring
20:27is what you,
20:28what you share to go through.
20:30There's a cool thing
20:31that happens
20:32where it's like,
20:32we show up in a city
20:33and it's like,
20:34we went through a lot
20:35to be here,
20:35you went through a lot
20:37to be here,
20:37now let's celebrate.
20:39You know, like,
20:39I don't want to ever lose that.
20:41You feel me?
20:42We know what you're saying.
20:43And also, I think,
20:44with smaller venues too,
20:46like, I think it's great
20:47to play stadium shows
20:48and that's its own experience,
20:49but I love when I see
20:51a band that's trying
20:52to do, you know,
20:53smaller venues
20:54or more intimate performances.
20:55Okay, well,
20:55interesting you say that.
20:56I won't give it away,
20:57but this tour,
20:58we're doing something
20:58really different.
20:59It's kind of all over the place.
21:01Basically, I went through it.
21:02I've been touring for so long.
21:03I know where I want to play.
21:04I know where I don't want to play.
21:05I'm just like,
21:05I want to play here, here,
21:06here, here.
21:07If the production is modular,
21:08I don't care,
21:09but specifically in LA,
21:10we're doing something real weird.
21:11Cool.
21:12So it's...
21:13You'll tell us about that first, right?
21:14Yeah, sure.
21:15I'll call in and...
21:16Yay!
21:16I'll have a song to play
21:17for you, by the way.
21:18We'll give you the 800 number.
21:18Let's wrap things up
21:19with two epic questions
21:20for Jack Antonoff.
21:21Here we go.
21:22Two.
21:23Two.
21:24Two.
21:24Epic.
21:25Two.
21:26Epic.
21:26Questions.
21:28Questions.
21:29Questions.
21:30Questions.
21:31Epic question number one.
21:32No one has ever gotten
21:33a perfect score.
21:33Allie, what do you got for Jack?
21:34Jack Antonoff,
21:35how many photos
21:36are currently stored
21:37in your phone?
21:38Like 14,000.
21:39Wow.
21:40Ish.
21:41How many do you have
21:42in your phone, Client?
21:43I don't have that many pictures.
21:44You guys have email,
21:45a bunch of unread emails.
21:45How many unread emails
21:46do you have right now?
21:47Currently, hold on.
21:50Do you want a literal number, though?
21:52Should I go look?
21:53Where's the number?
21:54Oh, my God.
21:55I was way off.
21:5624,000 unread emails.
21:5865,880 pictures.
22:01Wow.
22:01That's incredible.
22:03Jack, you're a fan
22:04of all things 80s.
22:05You've been inspired
22:06by the 80s.
22:06What is the greatest snack
22:07from the 80s
22:08that no longer exists?
22:09The greatest snack?
22:10That is question number two.
22:12Epic questions.
22:13I don't remember.
22:13I was so young.
22:14You don't remember
22:15a snack from the 80s?
22:16No.
22:16I wasn't snacking it.
22:18I was having, like,
22:18butter noodles.
22:19I could do a 90s snack.
22:21I was a baby.
22:22All right, give us
22:23a 90s snack.
22:23That's a ridiculous question.
22:24All right, you can't get it right.
22:25You failed, then.
22:26You couldn't get it right.
22:27Who was the 19th president, Client?
22:29I thought it was
22:30Roosevelt, probably.
22:31Imagine he's right.
22:32I love this music.
22:33Can we go a little longer on this?
22:35No, because you couldn't
22:35get your question right.
22:36I like it.
22:37I'll give you your backup question.
22:38I'll give you a question.
22:39If you, if you, if you.
22:43Go ahead.
22:44If you were to cry on air,
22:50what would it be about?
22:52And do you feel
22:53the tiniest tingle
22:54up going up your spine
22:56of tears?
22:56Do you feel the tiniest?
22:57You know what?
22:58Allie told me that she's
22:59starting the process of IVF
23:00right now to have another kid,
23:02and that made me feel
23:03a little emotional
23:04because I remember
23:05when she told me
23:06the first time on the air
23:06that she was pregnant,
23:07and I genuinely.
23:08Did you cry?
23:08Didn't cry.
23:09No, but you did give me
23:10a weird hug.
23:11I gave her a hug.
23:11And I think that that's
23:12a very big thing for me.
23:13I don't think you should touch,
23:14but, but.
23:15That's what HR said.
23:16The same exact thing.
23:17It's unbelievable.
23:18Did you feel anything just now?
23:19Yeah, just now I did,
23:20but in my penis.
23:21Oh, what?
23:21You can say that?
23:22Yeah, I did.
23:23I felt that in my penis.
23:25We're going to get out of here.
23:26It's the weekend, so we'll, uh.
23:27What song is this?
23:27You play me off with, uh.
23:29Incubus.
23:29Incubus.
23:30Wait, here comes the scratching?
23:31We're not playing you off.
23:32It's just the other DJ's
23:32going to come in here.
23:33We're going to be
23:33sitting around yapping stuff.
23:34No, this is not Incubus.
23:35This is.
23:35No, this is.
23:36Drive.
23:36No, then you really know
23:37what it's like.
23:38No, this is, um.
23:39Then you really know.
23:40Yo, this is what it's like.
23:42Yo, you're going to be wrong
23:43in a second.
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23:51Oh, God.
23:53Yes, that is viral.
23:54You really got to share
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23:56Please.
23:56Seriously.
23:57Please.
23:57We don't want to get real jobs.
23:59Don't make us big,
23:59but that's what
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24:01Yeah.
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