![]() ![]() I never really took to visual art myself. Well my mother is an artist and she is a print artist. True artists, like proper fine artists are influencing your album titles and kind of the imaging around your albums. It was excellent.Īlso, you had Baldessari on the last album. But to see everybody figure it out, it was incredibly effective and also incredibly creative and clever. News people were like, “What is this?” And of course I knew because it’s my world to know this. I mean it was the entire talk of the entire day. Oh my god! Okay let me give you proper feedback then, because it was everywhere. This is the only feedback we’ve ever gotten from that whole idea. Andrea said, “Why don’t we do a skywriting campaign?” and with the timing of the primaries, it was too good to pass up. I forgot that you did that until just now, honestly. Your last album was "Are You Serious" and around the time of the release there was a plane that flew over Milwaukee that had a banner that said “Are you serious?” It was on the day of a primary. It’s important to keep it somewhat malleable and vague, but you still get the idea. A lot of songs go from, a macro level and we can talk about North Korea or our newsfeed or our relationship between two people. ![]() It’s something that comes up in several different songs in different ways, suggesting how we can reverse that course. So, it’s just taking that part of human nature and making it even more destructive. That’s in an ideal world, but I think the algorithm that’s got us into this scary – that’s a human nature thing over centuries, but something about social media has amplified that to a scary degree. There might be a temporary void but I think it would be filled by more rewarding things. I saw that you had mentioned the intimacy with an opponent when you’re locked in a struggle and I love the thought of, “If we could just walk away, would our enemies miss us?” There is an inherent two sides of that, like would our enemies miss us? But also do you think we would miss our enemies? So, we’ve been playing “Sisyphus” and when I put the song on, it came across the wire or Twitter as I was about to jump onto a plane and I went onto it and I was like, “This is absolutely fantastic.” I did go into several spas and asked if they had someone on site who can do it quick, but it didn’t pan out. You know I’m glad we’re talking about this because yeah. ![]() You tried to find someone at the last second to wax your chest? But you know, it was that kind of, "How far do we take this?" In retrospect, I’m glad I didn’t go through with it. I honestly couldn’t find anyone to wax my chest at the last minute. I was trying to figure out for a few days before whether she was testing my commitment to the whole concept. Amanda Demme shot it, who’s an amazing photographer out here and she wanted me to wax my chest to get the texture of the painting because this guy is in a bathtub. ![]() But we recreated that painting as a photograph very painstakingly in every detail. I thought something dramatic and the suffering poet would make sense with “My Finest Work Yet,” just kind of to take it over the top. The history has to do with the French Revolution and this guy had been assassinated and he’s in this bathtub and it’s very dramatic. Album art for "My Finest Work Yet" by Amanda Demme, courtesy of the artist ![]()
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