So I interviewed Jack Antonoff from Bleachers (and fun.) a couple of weeks ago and this you can read the interview on popbuzz.com. HOWEVER, here is an excerpt from our conversation.
PB: You’ve obviously made an album with a very specific sound and aesthetic. From start to finish, is Strange Desire what you envisioned it would be when you started writing it?
JA: It’s weird because, when you’re working on something, it always takes these crazy turns. It feels like spirit of it is what I envisioned. It’s entirely its own concept.
PB: On the record, the lyrical content reflects some insecurities and anxiety issues that you’ve spoken fairly openly about. Is that something that’s always informed your art and music or have you recently arrived at a place in your life where you’re able to incorporate that into your work?
JA: A little bit of both. It's always informed it because, ever since I started writing music, that's always been the most important story that I've had to tell. Now I write about it 10 years later because that's important to me. To have an honest story and be able to tell it, to me, it's the only way I’ve ever been able to communicate. Just to be very direct and write lyrics almost like I’m writing a diary entry.
PB: "Wake Me" is so good. If you had to choose any John Hughes movie to have this play in the credits of what do you think would fit best?
JA: 16 Candles or The Breakfast Club. That was very inspirational for me when I was working on the album because I thought about those movies. They’re so connected to what it’s like to be bullied and terrified as a kid. That’s the place I’m constantly writing from - this feeling of hope and fear. This weird combination where there’s so much hope and there’s so much excitement but it’s also so terrifying and there’s so much fear.
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