.whitneytheband discuss their new album, the support of their city, and how playlists killed the album review
Jeff Tweedy:
When you made the last record and toured, did you wish that you had been able to record that version, the one you had after playing the songs a bunch?We were playing Chicago, basically the set of songs that was the first album, for six of eight months. So when we got into the studio to record, it was kind of the tour versions. This album more so, Julien and I isolated ourselves a little more and wrote just us two.
It’s interesting you bring that up, because we were talking about music criticism now. When we first started releasing music as Smith Westerns, there were always track reviews. You put out music and then you get this criticism back, and how much you value that criticism is up to you but it’s always interesting to see people’s perspectives. And now, when you release music you just put it into the world and when it gets added to a playlist, that’s the review.
It’s important to do it a different way each time, it’s not a one size fits all approach to putting music out. Most people your age just don’t have a real fear of streaming, and a lot of people my age have seen it cut into their paychecks. And I always think that they’re kind of short-sighted or just looking at the inevitable decline in a certain way or blaming something that’s technologically out of their control. But the technology has mostly democratized the whole thing.
There’s a famous quote by Leonard Cohen where he’s talking about “Suzanne” because he didn’t get any of the rights to that song. He signed all the rights away, and he said something along the lines of: “I got paid because I got to write that song.”I’ve always been mesmerized by pop artists that go at it like, “I’m trying to have a hit,” whereas I’ve always looked at that as a miracle if it happens.Which is really interesting, because music isn’t that fucking compllicated.
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