He is rarely seen these days without a baseball cap on his head and a Mets shirt on his body.

‘Be me’? Who wants to be someone? Fucking be yourself.” It’s the most whole that I ever feel when I write that way. Do everything I do.’ She says, ‘Fucking know me.’ You listen to songs she’s writing sad songs about what it’s like to be her. Understand me.’ Taylor, she’s not like, ‘Be me. He continues: “ Kendrick doesn’t say, ‘Be me.’ He says, ‘Know me. Beyoncé doesn’t say, ‘Be me,’ she says, ‘Know me. So when these public figures come along that throw their arms up and say, ‘Be me,’ it works for a moment and then it goes away. Nobody wants to be someone people want to know people. The Daily Mail isn’t every day like, ‘Can you believe Beyoncé got cheated on? Can you believe she wrote an album about it?’ Because she just fucking said it: here’s what happened, I’m a human being.” He goes on, “That’s why the album makes so much sense that’s why people love it. “ is this untouchable public figure and she got fucking cheated on, and wrote an album about getting cheated on. And it’s here, with Beyoncé as a reference point, where Antonoff breaks down the difference between the “be me” artists and the “know me” artists. Per the requirements for a lunch conversation between two millennials in Brooklyn, the conversation shifts at one point to Beyoncé’s Lemonade (it’s easy, talking to Antonoff, to find yourself vacillating between Robyn and global warming within the same minute). The musician and producer is working his way through a frittata (yogurt on the side), an order of bok choy, and a chamomile tea on a Monday afternoon in Williamsburg. In Jack Antonoff’s worldview, there exists an important dichotomy when it comes to pop artists.

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