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Jack heads back into the studio to reveal the creative process behind Sabrina Carpenter’s extraordinary hit single, ‘Please Please Please’. The visionary producer breaks down his unconventional approach to making records and unveils how he helped craft a bold, theatrical arrangement that soared to the top of the charts.
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00:02Always remember how brilliant people are. People feel sound. They feel when it changes. They hear
00:06the sound of the wind or sounds bother them or sounds excite them. So when you change any sound,
00:13you are taking people on a journey with you. Hey, I'm Jack Antonoff. I'm at Ruboye. Today,
00:23I'm gonna break down Please Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter. I'm really excited to show
00:27you guys this one. It's a huge thing that I think about when I'm making music is I don't
00:39care how many times I've played this instrument, how do I access that part of me that discovered
00:44it for the first time? And to me, one of the great ways to do that is to just never
00:48rely
00:48on things you know. Just fucking around. And so you start to hear these things together.
01:08We were messing with different keys, and then we heard the second verse jump up. Sounds
01:16like she's having this idea in real time. And it's A to C. It's not a typical place you would
01:21lift to. And we were just all like, whoa. It's almost like the second verse is a dream. And
01:25then we go back to the reality of begging someone.
01:30Please, please, please don't prove I'm lying.
01:36The work of writing, producing, performing, mixing, engineering, mastering. There's all
01:42this technical ability. There's all this emotional ability. One of the most important elements
01:47is the protection that one must have in any of these positions. The protection to know what
01:54you think is great. That's a big thing for everyone who does this work. You know, we're
01:58not in a service industry. You know, all my favorite mixers, all my favorite engineers,
02:03you know, they're not there to do exactly what they're asked to do. They're there to express
02:11something from within themselves that takes the body of work to another level.
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