Jack Antonoff x Hayley Williams Interview

Hayley Williams and Jack Antonoff interviewed each other at Rolling Stone:

Antonoff: The album gave me this feeling which I’ve been having about music. In this hellscape of only marketing, marketing, marketing, it’s become very clear what matters and what doesn’t. [The album] made me feel happy.

Williams: That’s so sick. Thank you. We got to experience this coming from the scenes that we came from, and the kind of music that really kick-started us. It’s so communal, and you’re always being fed by and feeding back into the community. When the world feels the way it does, I find myself wanting to plug back into what’s local. I’m wanting to go to smaller shows. I’m wanting to feel like I can see the blood and the bone.

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Jack Antonoff Responds to Live Nation Head

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Jack Antonoff responded to the head of Live Nation, Michael Rapino, who said on a recent earnings call that concert ticket prices were too cheap:

I always joke: Sports – it’s like a badge of honor to spend 70 grand for a Knicks courtside [seat]. They beat me up if we charge $800 for Beyonce, right? We have a lot of runway left. So when you read about the ticket prices going up, it’s still – average concert price is $72. Try going to a Laker game for that, and there’s 80 of them, or whatever the hell. So the concert is underpriced, has been for a long time.

Antonoff responded on Xitter:

answer is simple: selling a ticket for more than its face value should be illegal. then there is no chaos and you give us back the control instead of creating a bizarre free market of confusion amongst the audience who we love and care for.