Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night

**Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night** is the third album from Bleachers. Due to its lengthy title, it is often shortened to TTSOOSN, or "Titty Susan" by the band and fans. Bleachers toured this album in the summer and fall of 2021.

Before the album's release, Bleachers did a Spotify livestream concert that took place on a bus headed from New York to New Jersey in June 2021.

## Gallery

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## Merch

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## Quotes

* "This album is about wanting to hold joy, and not understanding why you can’t. Not understanding if it’s cultural, if it’s things I’ve been through, whether it’s Jewish things. Is it the loss I’ve been through? I don’t know. That became the idea of those songs, and looking at myself through the lens of my family and the people that I love. All these people are struggling and I’m struggling, and… why? Why, why, why? It’s not about answering the question, it’s about posing it." -Jack Antonoff, in a 2021 interview with NME
* "On the first two [Bleachers] albums I felt so obsessive about looking at the different angles of those stories, and that caused me to have to relive some trauma to go back and tell certain stories… but this album is literally trying to break down this door and move into it a new zone." -Jack Antonoff, in a 2021 interview with NME
* While writing, Antonoff explains, he would imagine a doorway. “I’d imagine myself with all this baggage. And I would be trying to get through [the doorway] and I’m like, ‘Oh no, I gotta drop some, I gotta figure out what I can take’. “That’s the whole point of the album. It’s that moment when you’re at the end of something, but you’re not at the beginning of something else yet, and all the hope that’s on the other side.” The record, he says, concerns “all the anxiety and frustration of trying to break through”. -Jack Antonoff, in a 2021 interview with NME
* “Sunday night blues are for people who love the weekend and are sad it’s over. Saturday night blues are for people who can’t find their way in the weekend.” -Jack Antonoff, in a 2021 interview with American Songwriter

## Commentary

* **After working with so many people on their records, how does it compare when you find yourself in the studio working on your own stuff?**: "When it's your lyrics, and it's your story, you carry all the weight of telling it. If you imagine having a deep conversation with someone, you might think, "Wow, I'm really expressing myself, Oh, no, have I said too much?" But if you get to just be the person listening, then there will be more of an energy of you can hear and understand and have less baggage involved in the process. I think that's a little bit like producing: I'm all the way in there, but it's not my life story being told. So I can sometimes feel a clarity that is a helpful quality in a producer, where you're not bogged down by all the weight of the stories and lyrics. And when I'm making Bleachers records, I am. It was a distinctly different feeling within a very familiar situation. And, to be honest, I think one of the reasons why I have a hard time deciphering or explaining (it) is that I've always done them both...The truth is, I've always had my own records, and I've always helped my friends with records, since I was a kid. It just exists on a different scale." —Jack Antonoff, in an interview with *The Tennessean*

## Trivia

* The earliest ideas for B3 date back to 2019.
* "The lightbulb moment for ‘Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night’ came when Antonoff was rolling around New Jersey’s Long Beach Island on his bicycle, suddenly realising the thread that ran through the record – something Antonoff calls “unearned hope”."

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 https://www.nme.com/big-reads/bleachers-jack-antonoff-cover-interview-2021-take-the-sadness-out-of-saturday-night-3006942
2. ↑ Jack Antonoff Skips The Blues on Latest Bleachers Effort, ‘Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night’ https://americansongwriter.com/jack-antonoff-skips-the-blues-on-latest-bleachers-effort-take-the-sadness-out-of-saturday-night/
3. ↑ https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/12/17/jack-antonoff-producer-taylor-swift-lorde-lana-del-rey-clairo/8943681002/