Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down

podcast. My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

Got a great one for you this week, especially if you love music

with one of the most influential artists in the business.

He is Jack Antonoff.

He's, of course, the front man of his band, band Bleachers but also so much more producer of

artists like Taylor Swift. They are longtime collaborators including on all her

recent stuff including on her re-recording all of her old stuff, Lord,

Lana del Rey, the 1975, and he does a lot of his work out of a studio called

Electric Lady Studios in New York City built by Jimmy Hendricks back in the

1960s. It is an incredible space. It's where we got together to do the interview. He just that

morning, as you will hear, had put the final touches

on the new album for his band, Bleachers, and did it right where we were sitting.

Really cool to just sit with a guy that's smart who can get in a room with

Taylor Swift with a blank page, kind of tinker on some instruments, start writing things

notes into their phones, talking back and forth and just come up with the albums

and the work he does.

How does it work?

How do you make a song?

You're gonna get some insight into that here.

Jack is a guy who grew up just across the river

from New York City in New Jersey kind of looking

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