Oct 7, 2026 · 51 min · 13 segments
Episode one of Overdubbed with SASAMI is with 14-time Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, musician, and producer, Jack Antonoff, who has collaborated with the Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar…
Jack AntonoffGuestSasami AshworthHostI mean, I remember hearing you say something about, um, this time, like, right after waking as being so near to the dream state that it connects you to, like, the purest form of music transmission, you know?
And, like, obviously when you're, when you're in that ritual, you can kind of be in that state more.
What is the least dreamy and the least pure place where you've ever been drawn to make music?
You know, we all know that experience of, like, sometimes you make something, and you go back the next day, and you're like, "That's not me."
Have you ever been, like, shitting in a, in, like, a gas station in China and you were like, "A melody has come to me"?
It, it, it happens at weird time, but I like that too is, like, you know, I, I think it's interesting that what we do, uh, is something we don't have control over.
And the more tr- control you try to exert, the less you, you know, y- y- the further away you get from it.
I mean, I remember hearing you say something about, um, this time, like, right after waking as being so near to the dream state that it connects you to, like, the purest form of music transmission, you know?
And, like, obviously when you're, when you're in that ritual, you can kind of be in that state more.
What is the least dreamy and the least pure place where you've ever been drawn to make music?
You know, we all know that experience of, like, sometimes you make something, and you go back the next day, and you're like, "That's not me."
Have you ever been, like, shitting in a, in, like, a gas station in China and you were like, "A melody has come to me"?
It, it, it happens at weird time, but I like that too is, like, you know, I, I think it's interesting that what we do, uh, is something we don't have control over.
And the more tr- control you try to exert, the less you, you know, y- y- the further away you get from it.
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