{"id":941349,"date":"2026-10-26T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/941349\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T08:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T08:58:10","slug":"jack-antonoff-reveals-why-he-still-sings-love-songs-about-ex-margaret-qualley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/941349\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Antonoff reveals why he still sings love songs about ex Margaret Qualley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pop star Jack Antonoff has revealed why he continues singing love songs about his ex, actress Margaret Qualley, in his first time addressing their break-up earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Antonoff \u2013 who serves as the frontman of the band Bleachers and also produces for pop stars like Taylor Swift \u2013 split from Qualley<\/a> in July after three years of marriage.<\/p>\n

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In the months since, Antonoff has been performing tracks written about The Substance<\/a> star<\/a> on stage; a process he described as \u201creally beautiful\u201d after much forethought about whether he\u2019d scrap the love songs from his setlist.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sat long and hard with it and thought, \u2018If I change the setlist \u2026\u2019 and in my gut there was a unanimous jury that said, \u2018No, this is the deal. The deal I\u2019ve made with my audience is that I\u2019m going to tell you honestly how I feel and I\u2019m going to risk at any moment having to stand behind it for f**king ever,\u2019\u201d Antonoff told the Guardian<\/a> in a recent interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s actually been really beautiful,\u201d he added of performing the love songs, which are rumoured to include tracks like Dirty Wedding Dress and the Lana Del Rey ballad Margaret, featuring Bleachers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, for people to come together, to know what I write a song about, to know how that must feel for me now, to know what that song means to you as an audience member, to just hold it all and sort of celebrate,\u201d Antonoff said.<\/p>\n

The singer, who has also dated Scarlett Johansson and Girls star Lena Dunham, went on to explain that he will continue singing tracks about his exes because he doesn\u2019t want to \u201crewrite the past\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t rewrite the past, I have no shame about the things I\u2019ve said,\u201d Antonoff explained. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy life has been dedicated to making it impossible for me to rewrite the past, because I\u2019m standing there, singing about how I felt during the good times, so when the bad times hit I can\u2019t look myself in the mirror and pretend that those times didn\u2019t exist,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

For the musician, reliving his past in public is par for the course. \u201cI would rather live through something publicly than even escape it privately,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It marks Antonoff\u2019s first official public comments about his split from Qualley, though he did briefly address<\/a> it at a show last month when a concertgoer requested he perform the Bleachers love song Let\u2019s Get Married.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d Antonoff replied with a laugh in the viral moment. \u201cRead the news, brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Qualley\u2019s representatives were quick to deny that cheating played a part<\/a> in the pair\u2019s split, saying \u201cthe narratives running in the press about Margaret and Jack are categorically untrue\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no trust issues. There was no infidelity or anything outside of respect and partnership in this relationship,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pop star Jack Antonoff has revealed why he continues singing love songs about his ex, actress Margaret Qualley,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":941350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[508361,508369,377848,385296,325111,380271,508384,394035,378194,422792,389433,377075,413170,508373,434017,381921,464842,508383,64,63,12601,243496,6978,1581,353,508377,376920,134,508362,389528,508382,488011,468917,508371,508364,388446,508366,464854,128491,25356,67651,74600,337057,508368,508363,508367,445544,381696,508370,508359,508385,455202,255574,1861,508379,140810,28813,464828,508374,508358,53645,508375,47867,2897,411263,508381,508378,508372,412083,378882,399219,452912,79741,508365,508357,418862,376470,414283,508360,376754,376757,383433,377284,508380,442847,378870,433976,380911,394719,497494,508376,440592,436929,395118,39746],"class_list":["post-941349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-reason-star","tag-s-first-official-public-comments","tag-s-representatives","tag-s-split","tag-my-life","tag-a-concertgoer","tag-a-headlinein","tag-a-laugh","tag-a-part","tag-a-process","tag-a-recent-interview","tag-a-show","tag-a-song","tag-a-unanimous-jury","tag-actress-margaret-qualley","tag-an-audience-member","tag-antonoff","tag-any-moment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beautiful","tag-bleachers","tag-brother","tag-celebrity-news","tag-cheating","tag-dirty-wedding-dress","tag-earlier-this-year","tag-entertainment","tag-ex-margaret-qualley","tag-fking","tag-his-actress-ex","tag-his-ex","tag-his-exes","tag-his-first-official-comments","tag-his-first-time","tag-his-past","tag-his-setlist","tag-his-split","tag-jack-antonoff","tag-july","tag-last-month","tag-love-songs","tag-margaret","tag-margaret-and-jack","tag-marriage-obsessed","tag-much-forethought","tag-my-audience","tag-my-gut","tag-no-infidelity-or-anything-outside","tag-no-shame","tag-no-trust-issues","tag-our-new-app","tag-par","tag-people","tag-pop-star-jack-antonoff","tag-pop-stars","tag-public","tag-qualley","tag-respect-and-partnership","tag-scarlett-johansson-and-girls-star-lena-dunham","tag-singer","tag-singing-tracks","tag-stage","tag-taylor-swift","tag-that-song","tag-the-bad-times","tag-the-band-bleachers","tag-the-bleachers-love-song","tag-the-course","tag-the-deal","tag-the-frontman","tag-the-good-times","tag-the-guardian","tag-the-lana-del-rey","tag-the-love-songs","tag-the-mirror","tag-the-months","tag-the-musician","tag-the-narratives","tag-the-news","tag-the-pair","tag-the-past","tag-the-press","tag-the-producer-and-frontman","tag-the-setlist","tag-the-statement","tag-the-substance-star","tag-the-things","tag-the-viral-moment","tag-their-break-up","tag-their-shock-split","tag-this-relationship","tag-those-times","tag-three-years","tag-tracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/941350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}