Jenny Lewis walks us through her new album
Life and Art from FT Weekend
Forhecz Topher
4.6 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week, musician Jenny Lewis joins Lilah to break down how she writes a song. Lewis’s music has paved the way for many famous pop stars and singer-songwriters today. She brings us through her trajectory: from child actor supporting her family, to lead singer of the beloved indie band Rilo Kiley, to solo artist who just, at 47, came out with her fifth solo album, Joy’All. Lilah asks her what she had for breakfast, she says “one weed gummy”, and they’re off.
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Original music by Metaphor Music. Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner and Sam Giovinco
Clips used:
Psychos and Giddy Up from the album Joy’all (2023), Blue Note Records
Rabbit Fur Coat from the album Rabbit Fur Coat (2006), Team Love Records
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| 0:00.0 | I'm with the musician Jenny Lewis in a green room at a hotel in Manhattan. |
| 0:10.2 | She just walked in and I need to test the microphone levels to make sure we're ready to roll. |
| 0:15.6 | So to do that, I ask her to talk into the mic. Just tell me what she had for breakfast. |
| 0:20.7 | One weed gummy. |
| 0:24.5 | I had one weed gummy for breakfast. |
| 0:27.8 | And a nice cup of coffee. |
| 0:31.0 | How did it taste? |
| 0:32.3 | Sort of fruit punchy. |
| 0:33.9 | Nice. |
| 0:35.4 | I just had it. |
| 0:36.5 | So it hasn't, you know, it hasn't done its thing yet. Oh, great. Yes, we're pre. So we're going to, but we're going to see what happens. Yes, it might get, yeah, wild in about 32 minutes. Okay, great. I've been listening to Jenny Lewis for decades. I call it like a musical godmother or maybe a musical big sister to millennial women that are in their feelings. |
| 0:56.7 | She was the lead singer in the early 2000s band Riloh Kiley, which was one of the only indie bands at that time to have a front woman. |
| 1:04.4 | She was in Postal Service, a band with Ben Gibbard of Death Cad for Cutie. |
| 1:09.0 | In 2006, she decided to try to go solo, and she's come out with five solo albums since. |
| 1:15.1 | Now, she's 47, and she's still doing it. |
| 1:18.6 | She just came out with a new album, Joy All, and a single on it recently hit number one on the Billboard Alternative Music Charts. |
| 1:26.0 | It's called Psychos. |
| 1:33.5 | Yeah. one on the Billboard Alternative Music Charts. It's called Psychos. Number one song? |
| 1:35.7 | I know. |
| 1:36.6 | What? |
| 1:37.0 | This song? |
| 1:38.3 | Are you surprised it was this song? |
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