If 1989 left the country sweetheart’s coffin ajar, Reputation slammed it shut and buried her. From the album’s very first notes, sustained deep bass notes to be exact, it’s clear that Swift wasn’t lying when she said the old Taylor is dead. And let’s be clear, Reputation birthed an entirely new Taylor. The world was captivated with the new Taylor.
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Her full length album, Reputation was somehow even more omnipresent. From junior high cafeterias to office lounges, award shows to meme pages, the song’s syncopated deep synths and staccato piano riffs were everywhere.
Is it that he grew up with two sisters? (His younger sister died of brain cancer when she was 13 and Antonoff was still in high school.On August 24, Taylor Swift released “Look What You Made Me Do,” spurring think pieces and social media reactions from every corner of the internet. One puzzle piece he hasn’t connected is the question of why he works so well with women. I see performing live as a real piece of the puzzle that connects all of it.” “It’s a huge part of it for me, I don’t see it as being a separate thing.
“Nothing compares to playing a show,” says Antonoff, who lists seeing the Mountain Goats at the Bowery Ballroom as a seminal concert experience in his lifetime. At the end of the day that’s the big test of what I’d like to release: Does it give me this amazing feeling, or not?”Īntonoff gets that feeling from playing live shows, and Bleachers’ music comes alive in a live setting in a way it doesn’t on record. “I get a gut feeling that something thrills me or it doesn’t. “I don’t go too far with something if it doesn’t feel right,” he says. “Gone Now’s” 12 songs were written rather economically they’re the 12 songs he wrote for the album, not a collection of 12 songs cobbled together from a pool of 50. It’s the reason why I wanted to go home and work on the album, because I wanted to be attached to that feeling.” “I think every place has a feeling that comes through in the music. There’s something to this place right outside of New York City that is giving everyone a similar feeling,” Antonoff says of the New Jersey mentality. It’s full of big choruses, personal lyrics and a yearning desire to break out of New Jersey, a commonality of New Jerseyites from Bruce Springsteen to Bon Jovi and beyond. The group’s debut album “Strange Desire” was released in 2014 and “Gone Now,” its sophomore set, followed earlier this month. Right now Antonoff’s focus is Bleachers, the indie pop band he formed when fun. I think it’s nice to have intimate ideas and then find a way to bring that intimacy to a lot of people.” “Well, obviously that’s not possible, right? But if we were able to remove it, all the energy and all the things - not replicate it, but literally remove it, the walls, the floors, everything, all the spaces that have seen me at my best and worst - if we could do that and people could hear the album in there, that would mean so much to me. “I thought, I can play the record for the world, but somehow I wish they could hear it in this room,” says Antonoff, on the phone last week during a tour break in New York. It will be in Detroit and available for fans to observe outside the venue when Bleachers plays Saint Andrew’s Hall on Sunday. Antonoff worked with L.A.-based designers All Valley Yacht Club to remove the cabinets, carpeting, drawers, posters, loose CDs and assorted tchotchkes from the room he grew up in in suburban New Jersey and turn it into a traveling art exhibit of sorts.
Jack Antonoff says the best place to listen to the new Bleachers album is inside his childhood bedroom, so he’s bringing his childhood bedroom with him on tour.