{"id":666107,"date":"2026-10-26T19:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666107\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T19:46:12","slug":"jack-antonoff-on-singing-songs-about-margaret-qualley-after-their-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666107\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Antonoff on Singing Songs About Margaret Qualley After Their Split"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn the words of his longtime friend and collaborator Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff<\/a> can do it with a broken heart. Following his split from Margaret Qualley, the Bleachers frontman opened up to The Guardian<\/a> in an interview published Sunday (Oct. 25) about his plans to keep performing songs about his ex, no matter how painful they are to sing.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen asked about whether recent events in his personal life have tempted him to switch up the setlist on his ongoing Bleachers Forever Tour, Antonoff began, \u201cOh, I can imagine what you\u2019re going to say: It\u2019s bizarre.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI obviously was really worried about this specific thing,\u201d he continued candidly. \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.\u2019 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\u2013king ever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe chart-topping producer added that \u201cit\u2019s actually been really beautiful\u201d to perform songs about his past relationship to his fans, knowing that they\u2019re aware of his change in circumstances. \u201cFor 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 \u2026 I would rather live through something publicly than even escape it privately.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was first reported in July<\/a> that Antonoff and Qualley had split after about three years of marriage. Prior to tying the knot<\/a> <\/a>in New Jersey with a number of celebrities (Swift included) in attendance, they\u2019d dated for about a year before reportedly getting engaged<\/a> in the first half of 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt press time, it seems that neither Antonoff nor the Substance star have filed to legally end their marriage. \u201cThere was no infidelity or anything outside of respect and partnership in this relationship,\u201d a rep for Qualley told E! News<\/a> following news of their separation, adding the pair still \u201chave deep love and care for one another.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tAntonoff did not name specific songs to The Guardian, but tracks such as \u201cYou and Forever\u201d \u2014 the music video for which starred Qualley \u2014 and \u201cTiny Moves\u201d are likely to have taken on a new meaning for the bandleader as he performs them at Bleachers shows. He previously joked with fans at a show in Los Angeles in September, telling a f<\/a>an<\/a> who\u2019d requested 2017 love song \u201cLet\u2019s Get Married,\u201d \u201cRead the news, brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t give a f\u2013k any more,\u201d Antonoff added in the new interview of online commentary, on his relationship or otherwise. \u201cIt\u2019s like, the very act of engaging negatively on the internet is inarguably such a f\u2013king low-vibrational joke, and I think artists for too long over the past decade have read into it and there\u2019s less than nothing there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the words of his longtime friend and collaborator Taylor Swift, Jack Antonoff can do it with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,821,61,60,278,633],"class_list":["post-666107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-pop","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}