Jack Antonoff reclaims his origin story and gets to what really matters at the emotional core of the band’s fifth album. When pop megaproducer and Bleachers founder Jack Antonoff married actor Margaret Qualley in 2023, a crush of onlookers crowded the Jersey Shore venue, likely for a glimpse of his longtime superstar collaborator in attendance. (Her name rhymes with Taylor Swift.) From the annoyance—in a letter to fans, Antonoff described it as a “dipshit palooza”—came the inspiration for “dirty wedding dress,” an exuberant dismissal of those on the outside and an emphasis on who—or what—really matters at the emotional core of the band’s fifth album, everyone for ten minutes. “The song is not about my wedding. The song is not about that moment,” Antonoff tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “The song is about a barrier between the people who know and love you—my friends, my family, my audience—and the others who are very transient and want a piece of your soul, but really shouldn’t get it.” In everyone for ten minutes, Antonoff threads these feelings with what he calls his “origin story”—in particular, the dreamy “sideways” and “the van,” a Jersey-worshipping, leisurely remembrance of past times—as well as anthemic joy and stripped-back heartbreak. There’s even an ode to his recording home, Electric Lady Studios: “upstairs at els” ends the album in moving synth-pop fashion. “I want to, at some point, get everyone together and the band and all the records I’ve made there and get everyone on the roof and just do some sort of taped performance of the whole thing,” he says. For Antonoff, it ultimately comes back to the work, and making it for himself and Bleachers acolytes—not the button-pushers, bean counters, or hangers-on. “Like the amount of stats we talk about, no fans give a shit,” he says. “Artists don’t give a fuck. And I don’t give a fuck. And I want to kick that wall in and just be like, ‘Guys, it’s about the album. It’s about the lyrics, it’s about the way it’s played or sang, and it’s about the fucking show.’”