2017 has been Jack Antonoff’s year.
The prolific producer and musician added to his production discography three of the most interesting pop records of the year: Lorde’s Melodrama, St. Vincent’s Masseduction, and Taylor Swift’s Reputation. Meanwhile, he released his second album under the moniker Bleachers, the high-energy, ’80s-laden Gone Now.
Below, Antonoff looks back on 2017 and offers some productivity advice for making the most of 2018.
Rule No. 1: Schedule Time To Be Unscheduled
“For me, being productive is really about messing around. I like to consciously sit down and say, ‘Okay, right now I’m not going to open anything on the hard drive. I’m just going to sit at the piano and try new things.’ It reminds me of how I did things when I was a kid. I actually schedule time to fuck around.”
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