Bleachers - Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night (July 30, 2021) Album • Page 51

Pretty cool. And people gonna hate.

 

Proud of the steel train bro

 

Love it

 

cross-posting this from the Taylor Swift thread:

I spent some time digging through album credits from Taylor's last few albums and found some info that I find pretty interesting regarding Jack & Bleachers, thought this forum would find this pretty interesting:

So first off, while Bleachers is technically just Jack Antonoff, his touring band consists currently of Evan Smith, Mikey Hart, Sean Hutchinson, Mike Riddeleberger and Zem Audu. This has been his touring band since 2014 aside from Zem who joined in 2020. In addition to being his touring band, they all performed on the most recent Bleachers album, Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night on at least a few tracks.

Digging through Taylor's last few albums, I found that everyone in Bleachers has been part of her studio albums to various levels as far back as Reputation. BUT what I find super interesting, there are multiple songs where Taylor's entire backing band is Bleachers, where it's kind of like Taylor is the lead singer of Bleachers for a song.

These songs use Bleachers as her full band: "Gold Rush," "Mr. Perfectly Fine," "That's When," "Bye Bye Baby," "Babe," "Forever Winter," "All Too Well (10 Minute Version;" and "Mastermind"

Anyway, I found that pretty interesting that 8 of Taylor's songs are kinda Bleachers & Taylor collabs.

And my crazy theory, that I will just put here just in case, is that Bleachers is her live band for this tour. We'll see...

 

The three songs he did with her on 1989 sound exactly like instrumentals from Strange Desire…always loved that.

 

Gotta hit the label deadline

 

It’s weird that in 2023 jack has to answer to anyone.

 

What label is he on now?

 

And hopefully he doesn’t turn in another undercooked album because of a deadline.

 

I’m personally glad he hasn’t done that yet!

 

Damn, his instagram post yesterday about b4 had me so hyped, can't lie that that deadline post cooled it off a bit. I'm sure behind the scenes that's the case for a lot of releases, but you kind of want to pretend it's not. And I like TTS plenty, there's some all time Jack songs on it, but I can't disagree with anyone who says it feels undercooked in comparison to the first two.

 

The post doesn't say anything about label pressure, that's a big assumption. You know people and bands have personal goals and deadlines right?

 

Just seems canceling those shows over a personal goal/deadline seems a bigger stretch than it being a label deadline

 

probably the Grammy deadline

 

Or he needs it out before a tour

 

I mean, maybe from a fan perspective... sure? My point is, he didn't tell anyone what deadlines he is working on so there's no reason to just go "fuck the label." Honestly, I am guessing the label is very low on possible reasons here. Jack is an absolute phenomenon, a force of nature, and Bleachers is NOT a very big revenue generator compared to what he does with production. I highly doubt that any label is going to have any control over him at this point

 

I just want him to make more of the big songs and have them sound big on the record

 

And not have to crank the volume up or down track to track

 

feels like such a simple ask, haha

 

Big Life is still the best song of all time.

 

Bleachers was so good at adjacent fest and I must be one of the dozens that really likes the last album reading through this thread lol

 

Profoundly disappointing album, after how much I loved the previous two albums. Hoping the 4th one is better.

 

Good album, just feel like it could have been better. The way the individual songs sound doesn’t bother me as much as some here, but the volume differences between them is hella distracting and it feels like one or two classic tracks short compared to the first two.