Summer Hits: Jack Antonoff on Bleachers “Stop Making This Hurt”

Switched on Pop

Vox Media Podcast Network

Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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We’ve been wanting to speak with Jack Antonoff since we started Switched On Pop back in 2014. We've had countless hours of conversation sound tracked to his productions with artists like Taylor Swift, Lorde, Lana Del Ray starting in just our second episode. When we wrote a book about 21st century pop, we devoted a chapter to the song “We Are Young” by his band, Fun. And so we're excited to finally sit down with him to hear about how he approaches his own work. He has a new album out with his band Bleachers called Take the Sadness out of Saturday Night. And for our series on Summer Hits, we wanted to start our conversation with Jack Antonoff about the song “Stop Making this Hurt.” More Episodes ft. words or music by Jack Antonoff Chained to the Green Light: Katy Perry + Lorde The Oeuvre of Taylor Swift folklore: taylor swift's quarantine dream "evermore" of a good thing Total Request Live! Taylor, Lana, Kim, and More (with Sam Sanders) Song of Summer 2020: TikTok Jams, Protest Anthems, Breezy Bops & Bummer Bangers Carly Rae Jepsen: Meeting The Muse Songs Discussed Bleachers - Chinatown (feat. Bruce Springsteen) Bleachers - How Dare You Want More Bleachers - Secret Life Bleachers - Stop Making This Hurt Bleachers - What'd I Do With All This Faith? Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen Fleetwood Mac - Bleed to Love Her (Live at Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank, CA 52397) Fleetwood Mac - Bleed to Love Her Lana Del Rey - Mariners Apartment Complex Television - 1880 Or So The Strokes - New York City Cops Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Switched On Pop, I'm musicologist Nate Sloan.
0:16.2	And I'm Slangrider Charlie Harding.
0:17.8	Today we have a guest that we're really excited to talk to.
0:20.7	Someone whose music has been in our ears since we started the show many years ago.
0:25.8	When we wrote a book about 21st century pop, we devoted a chapter to the song.
0:29.6	We are young by his band Fun.
0:31.6	And we've had countless hours of conversation soundtrack to his productions with artists
0:35.4	like Taylor Swift, Lord, Lennon Del Rey and many others.
0:39.0	So we're excited to sit down with this guest and hear about how he approaches his own
0:42.7	work.
0:43.7	He has a new album out with his band Bleachers.
0:46.0	It's called Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night.
0:48.8	And for our series on Summer Hits, we wanted to start our conversation with Jack Antenoff
0:53.0	about the song Stop Making This Hurt.
0:55.7	Jack Antenoff, thanks so much for being here.
0:57.9	Thank you guys for having me.
0:58.9	I love your show.
0:59.9	Thanks Jack.
1:00.9	So let's get right into it.
1:02.4	Stop Making This Hurt is a loud, boisterous summer release, but it's also charged.
1:07.7	It's a bit of a sad summer song.
1:18.5	It sounds to me like you're working something out in this song, working out some kind of
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