Jack Antonoff Traces Bleachers to AirDrop for Everyone for Ten Minutes
Jack Antonoff said bleachers’ fifth album, Everyone for Ten Minutes, takes its title from AirDrop, and he used the rollout to take aim at the way phones crowd out attention. The record is scheduled for release on May 22, with Antonoff tying its title to a feature that lets nearby iPhone users barge into a device for a brief window.
On a sunny spring morning at Electric Lady Studios, he said people used to dream more, then argued that the phone has taken that time away. “The relationship to the phone has, only for the benefit of billionaires, robbed us of that time,” he said, putting the album in the middle of a broader complaint about modern life and algorithm-driven distraction.
AirDrop as album title
Antonoff said the title came from the AirDrop setting itself, the brief opening that lets nearby iPhone users jump in. He called the title Everyone for Ten Minutes because it captures how fast a device can become public, and how little time remains before attention gets pulled somewhere else.
He described the album’s frame in blunt terms: “this version of modernity is trash.” That line gives the release a sharper edge than a standard pop record announcement, especially for a fifth album arriving with a title built from a phone feature instead of a studio abstraction.
Notes, food, and morning work
Antonoff said his timeline is filled with dog videos and reflections of his very stressful relationship with food, a mix he treated less like a joke than a diagnostic. “Having food on the way — and bad food, bad, bad, bad food — it’s a real high for me,” he said, while talking about the algorithm that sorts his day.
He added that his life is about running, missing, and loving, and he framed his Notes app as accidental poetry: “For me it’s always, ‘Blah blah, on my way…’ ‘Blah blah blah, at the studio.’ ‘Love you, love you, miss you, miss you.’ If I pan back and read the things my fingers are typing all the time, it’s missing, loving, and on my way. My life is about running, missing, and loving.”
The Van and teenage miles
He said his songwriting has to get done first thing in the morning before anything external can intrude, which matches the album’s argument that distraction arrives early and leaves little untouched time. Antonoff also said his years touring the continental United States as a teenager are detailed on the Everyone for Ten Minutes standout song The Van.
He put a practical edge on the whole project with one more everyday detail: his go-to Wawa order is a home-style turkey sandwich on white bread, not a hoagie. For listeners, the album now arrives as a record built around interruption, routine, and the small habits that survive both.
