Jack Antonoff Accepts the Producer of the Decade Award | Variety Hitmakers - video Dailymotion

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00:00Lana

00:01Is you you're in a fucking room with Lana Del Rey what the fuck is wrong with you people make some noise

00:07like that's like

00:09I'm sorry you that jaded that you think that's normal

00:15My side of the story is that I met Lana and then we made a plan to go to EJ's diner on the Upper East

00:20Side which is a very weird thing for anyone to do by the way the reason why I enjoy Hollywood

00:24It's gonna fucking live here all right

00:27That can't offend you people like that's like this is a very strange place

00:30so I come and I see Lana and

00:32She's like literally is

00:35Hollywood to me and then we have

00:36Dinner and we make music and it's funny that she said all those things because she's the only person who I feel comfortable

00:42Putting a ton of pressure on

00:45She's laughing no one else

00:47every because

00:48It's it's so I think the thing about all great artists is that there's no bit

00:53You know maybe this will embarrass you Lana, I don't think it should but she'll call me, and we've never booked a session

00:59I mean, what are you doing? She's like. I'm in my truck. I'm writing poetry

01:03In San Bernardino or something just sort of moving around like I'll come to the studio

01:07She's like no, and I was like maybe you should come we have that idea

01:10That's really good, and then hours later

01:12She'll show up and we'll talk forever, and then it'll be silly and weird

01:16And it's like weird to watch someone who the whole world does an impression of but they're just that person

01:23I'm really honored to know Lana, and I also want to say that I wrote down a few things

01:27When I met her

01:29Are the music you made really changed my life because we make so much music, and it doesn't feel like for anyone

01:37I don't know if you feel this way

01:39But it feels like it's just for us

01:40And then you kind of go back and you say well this one goes here, and then I say

01:43Oh, I really think you should release Jimmy, and you say no you're deranged and got you there asshole. You know nice one

01:51But uh, but you know I the

01:54She's just the greatest friend the greatest artist the complete honor to spend time with her

02:00When we made Norman and chemtrails and tunnel those are moments that are just the greatest in my life

02:05I hope one day people hear the long version of Lana when you do like the Tom Waits voice and talk about a miners cut

02:10Diamond because that's like the core of the weird shit that happens Lana's the greatest. I want to say that

02:18Is a big honor for me the the two people when I think of production our sound wave and George Daniel that

02:25That Daniel's Daniel. What does it matter they give me so much inspiration?

02:30And I love working with and just happy making music at this time with them

02:36My favorite writer in the world is Sam do and I think about when I'm

02:40Like gone or dead the times that him and I were in the studio

02:45Just singing things at each other will be the ones that

02:49anyone knows me knows how much I

02:52Look up to him

02:54Will really just sit with me forever

02:57Charlie you're the greatest. I'm not trying to

03:00make myself part of it at all, but

03:02It's really cool because I think we started around the same time. This is a decade award about a decade ago

03:07We co-headlined a tour we couldn't sell many tickets

03:11None and it's just cool that I'm not trying to jump on Charlie's on her own fucking shit

03:16And but it's cool that we're both still here, and I think that tour would be it would be wonderful now

03:22It couldn't happen. We've we've both gone

03:24We still so many tickets and then the companies that sell the tickets would make it so horrible to get those tickets and to and the

03:32people

03:33You know well get back to that one second, so I just I want to say in the presence of Charlie that I feel

03:39with no

03:41Ownership just utter pride watching what she's done. I think she has the world at the fingertip hurt fingertips. I can't

03:47Tell you how excited I am to see what she does next because it's just gonna be wonderful. Amy's here I

03:54Love Amy she's like the greatest writer, but one thing I want to say about Amy is Amy's a great writer

03:59But she's also a brilliant artist she came on tour in my band. It was amazing to watch her every night

04:04We all know she's the greatest writer

04:07But I love the music she writes for his health does everyone in the room know Jen can hopeful

04:14Guys it's almost over. It's me then Charlie wake up a little bit

04:18Jen drove to Bakersfield to Bakersfield, California to speak to me when my

04:25The songs I wrote made no money

04:27it meant the world to me I feel like I knew I would know her forever and

04:31She's a person who demands zero praise for what she does everyone in this room knows that Jen is behind the best music year after

04:38Year after year there's so many assholes out there

04:41Jen is truly a good person and is the kind of person that I pray we all work for one day

04:45I really do this doesn't have to be dark and weird Jen loves music

04:49She loves seeing people who make music get fair deals, and I love the company

04:55I'd be fucking published by Jen if she worked out of her basement. I really don't care. She's the greatest there is

05:00The second person is Jamie O'Brien is my manager who in many ways saved my life

05:05Everyone deserves a Jerry Maguire figure you really do because there's a lot of people

05:10that really love this and then there's people that like to wield power and

05:14Money and the idea of wielding power is really like sexy to people over like

05:19Artists, it's it's it's a thing that happens, but Jamie carries gear like he feels like

05:26So thrilled to be here, and he's also so powerful in his work, and it just means the world to me and I

05:34Cherish that relationship

05:36Okay, sorry. I'm moving quick Laura and Ollie Laura sis. I met when we made if you know her make some noise

05:47One of the great mixers of our time she mixed Norman she makes chemtrails she makes tunnel

05:54She's the best

05:57I met Laura. We were making the first bleachers album. She's the only engineer. I've ever worked with she's only I

06:02Engineer ever will work with she's brilliant. I'm honored to be in the room with her every day

06:08we went to make the 75 record in London and there was a boy engineer there named Ollie and

06:14He was amazing too, and then he came and joined us now. We have this perfect triangle, and they have a romantic partnership also

06:21that's

06:23Really cool, it's sweet. I go home. They go home together. I think they're like the only two people who talk about like

06:30You say no

06:32Okay, I'll stop there

06:34I wrote a bunch of notes. I'd like to announce. I'm suing Universal. I'm

06:39That's a pretty good joke you fuckers

06:42What happened to you people you can leave this is the easiest event to leave

06:47Okay, what are my other notes, what'd you say oh?

06:51Well it's a bit long and there should have been food the plates

07:00Okay, I want to say that

07:04This really means the world to me and

07:09I'll leave you with these words

07:12Sorry, I just it's easier to just you know okay

07:14There's two kinds of work the kinds two kinds of love two kinds of relationships. We've all

07:20Experienced the different kinds of both working personal things that take from you and the things that give to you

07:26When I think about the music I made that led to this they're all relationships that have given me so much power

07:33so much love

07:37Allowed me to find myself allowed me to understand the harsh realities of my own limitations

07:43and

07:45it's

07:46Allowed me to even have a partner and have a marriage, which I never thought I would have and

07:52What it makes me realize whether it's Lana

07:55Who's here or anyone I get to work with or people? I don't they're just my favorite artists this mythology of being a

08:02absolute damaged piece of shit isn't real and I think we all make our best work when we're being decent and

08:09Good to each other and to ourselves

08:12I

08:13Really appreciate this and I wrote a lot of stuff about ticketing, but you've heard me say it

08:18I just hope we can have a really good. I hope we can have some fun

08:21You know it's all burned to the ground in a good way nothing matters, right?

08:25Like half you fuckers probably care more about pop crave than pitchfork nothing matters like why not just have fun

08:32We've all we get it. You know like

08:34Everyone I meet is like everyone hates me

08:36And I'm like no one I've never heard that like everyone feels so hated and no one hates you you just are fed all the shit

08:41That people hate about you and most of them are nine

08:45Or literally bots, and it's like at some point. I think we have to get together and be like it's so cooked nothing matters

08:53Nothing matters besides making great music, so I think it's a wonderful time

08:56I'm honored to be in this room, and I really really think that

09:00Lana Del Rey is

09:03God's gift

Jack Antonoff Accepts the Producer of the Decade Award | Variety Hitmakers

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