He said: ‘Who would you most like that to work with in the entire world?’ and I couldn’t even fathom Adele, so I was thinking of producers and stuff. Tobias has a third, day-to-day manager also, which seems a little excessive for an artist so completely solo that he originally toured alone, accompanied only by the piano that overwhelmingly sits at the heart of his songs. It was like winning the lottery or something, and then you start to believe it. Albums Reviews, Découvertes, Pas de … When discussing his year, though, it’s apparent just how necessary this team has been to his success, his happiness and ultimately his sanity. He hasn’t been to Target to buy a copy of the version with ‘Lay Me Down’ on it yet, and is worried that he might now struggle to find it in stock. I was left with more than a little embarrassment after I played. The last fact didn’t prevent him flirting with every girl present after the show, and ending up in a game of tonsil hockey that looked almost surgical. Once people get to know you, then it’s kinda like the people who like you stick around,” On stage at Manhattan’s Mercury Lounge the night before, he openly talked about his perceived musical ineptitude, his predestined career failure, and the woman in his life – which is his mother. Talk about Adele putting you at ease, Sia was the opposite. People have sent me whole entire movie screenplays that they have written listening to the music, and I read them and I write back as much as I can. “I haven’t written a perfect song, to me, and I’m always searching for that. © 2021 NME is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. This time last year, Tobias Jesso Jr. was living at his family home in Canada, working for a friend’s moving company and helping his mother through … My guest list yesterday had five people from Facebook who reached out asking for tickets. “For me, if I had any other job that was like that I would quit. Tobias Jesso Jr. – Live On KCRW. It took him a month. Interview: Tobias Jesso Jr. He tells me how he drove out to Malibu to meet Ruben at his mythical retreat-come-studio, Shangri-La, suspicious of what all the fuss was about – why did everyone care so much about this producer who can’t even play music himself, or record it, for that matter? He worries when he looks at his phone to see that more shows have been announced as scratched, expecting disappointed fans to be in touch soon. He’s got an easy laugh and an obsessive and complex imagination, which is best demonstrated during our photo shoot when we become completely sidetracked as he tells us in extreme detail an idea he’s had for a TV show for the past four or five years. “I was a big fan of Girls, but I would really, really hold onto a Christopher Owens show, of just him. Tobias Jesso Jr. has the kind of laugh that can light up a room -- it’s inviting, warm, entirely goofy, much like him. Héritier d'icônes tels que John Lennon ou Elton John, Tobias Jesso Jr. marque d'entrée avec un premier album qui sonne avant tout honnête, riche de mélodies douces et de textes sincères. He failed spectacularly, and after four years of trying (half-arsedly, he admits) he was forced to move back home where he aborted his grand plans and took yet another manual labour job, at his friend’s mom and pop removal company. It’s a stark contrast to his current situation. Four years had passed and Fraser was no longer the man he’d left behind. Talking of his derailed Hollywood hustle, he told Pitchfork: “I wanted to be in the studio writing songs for pop artists. The Bigfoot show isn’t that, and not just because Tobias is dressed as a Sasquatch – it’s a cabaret sound: more professional and slick, but more ordinary also. Whilst he had been petrified alone onstage, at least he knew that the people in front of him were there for the songs, because there really wasn’t anything else to be there for. He’s a true friend. Jesso’s need to publicly explain away his role in his own life can read as an obsessive self-awareness that’s a bit off-putting, but it’s the crucial foundation on which his success is staked. Words by Stuart Stubbs Photos by Brian Guido, “I won a raffle one time, and I won a hat. At six feet seven inches tall, Tobias Jesso Jr. tends to literally stand out in most situations. Her admiration, Jesso says, is mutual: “She’s my favourite, and that tweet was one of the highlights of my career.”, Jesso began writing his debut album in 2012 after enduring a breakup and road accident in quick succession in Los Angeles, where he’d been trying – and failing – to launch a music career. He says that he doesn’t know how much real money he stands to make from his work on ‘25’, but he doesn’t think it’ll be enough to retire on like I suggest it might be. So I feel that there’s a very specific way to showcase that to the world. When Jesso, dejected and embarrassed, moved back home after a failed attempt at success in Hollywood, it was Fraser who was first round his house. L'un des albums les plus attendus de l'année est enfin là ! Tobias Jesso Jr in session for Zane Lowe at the BBC's Maida Vale studios. A … Everything came down to a point where I was like, ‘I’m not that guy! I guess it’s insecurity. Tobias Jesso, Jr. on His New Album, Goon, and Those Taylor Swift Rumors For his debut appearance on national television, Tobias Jesso, Jr. dressed like a … In person, if not on a shirt, Jesso is very mindful of seeming boastful. “My manager made me sit down,” he tells me over lunch at the café on his street. As for the other collaborations he worked on since ‘When We Were Young’, he’s not sure if he can tell me who they are yet, but on a scale of 1 – 10, 10 being someone of Adele’s caliber and 1 being an artist in the ballpark of Tobias Jesso Jr., he says he’s written for a couple of 4’s and one 9. I’d become a parody of myself.”, Today, at least, he has no desire to play his songs in front of an audience again. Tobias Jesso Jr. interview: “Like going into a witness protection program.” 27.03.15 . “I met Rick Ruben two days ago and he changed my life.”. Having seen him perform twice, each time on his own, it’s only when I search online for his Bigfoot show that I realise just how estranged his live performances had become from those early gigs that so accurately represented his debut album, ‘Goon’. And it’s not for anything that I would have any control over – it was a feeling inside, like, ‘man, that didn’t make me feel good.’”. Révélation musicale de ce début d'année 2015, Tobias Jesso Jr est partout, de Pitchfork à la couverture du numéro de mars du magazine Magic. This, from a guy who was so desperate to have his music heard he reluctantly decided to sing the songs himself because nobody else would. Cédric Rouquette — 4 avril 2015 à 19h16. We meet the afternoon between two late-night shows; one in Manhattan and another at Williamsburg clubhouse Baby’s All Right. A lot of people don’t understand that, and a lot of people are in jobs that they hate and they feel like I’m copping out – like I’m one of those new kids who can’t handle an honest day’s work, and being on tour is the most dishonest day’s work you can do. We’ll do anything.’ And the audience would be like: ‘Errr, Outkast!’, so we’d play an Outkast song,” he says wearily, “and I’d look up the lyrics on Google.” He looks ashamed when he tells me that he answered his phone to take a call a few times onstage. His whole thing is about working with artists not to say, hey, this would make this song better, but to just ask them, is this song everything you want it to be, artistically? No ‘singer’ slash…, no nothing; it would just be ‘songwriter’. He says he doesn’t consider himself “very impressive”, and dismisses anecdotes relating to his success as the effect of “beginner’s luck.” His debut album is filled with earnest, straightforward songs about heartbreak, but he jokes them away with the record’s title: ‘Goon’. It’s like: ‘NO! All my friends say, ‘I hear you all over that song,’ but no, the amount of changes we had to do for her that I would not normally do, it’s crazy, and I’m so glad for it.”. All rights reserved. Les lovers sont de sortie, coup de coeur garanti ! “You say that, but I have a mental breakdown at least once a week,” he only half jokes. If I wasn’t an artist there’s just no way I would have got to work with Adele. That kind of information is how Tobias gets overwhelmed with life, and he’s happy that his managers have kept it to themselves for now. He played slow because it was the only way he could; he sang like a guy trying because he was. “I know what a perfect part sounds like,” he says. Without Ruben’s pep-talk, he admits that he would have wanted to cancel our meeting today, following a year of press interviews that he’s struggled with as much as anything else. Tobias Jesso Jr. only started singing his own songs because nobody else would. It’s a boys house, from its sofa area and drawn shades at 11am to Ben’s new toy – one of those handless Segway hoverboards that every kid’s going to want this Christmas – which everyone in the house has mastered, and Ben and Tobias jump on and off as they tell me about how Black Friday is America’s most embarrassing day of the year. Duration: 06:32 Skepta - Feature Interview… Avis de la Fnac Goon est une plongée agréablement régressive dans la pop des 70's. He says it would take him hours to explain the whole thing and I believe him, but for 30 minutes or so he gives it a go, outlining its camera angles, callbacks (Tobias is good at callbacks), character synopsis and even proposed marketing ideas to promote it. “I spent 10 days writing songs and ideas for her, and the second she walked in the room I forgot every single one. Even though Jesso’s constant self-surveillance about not saying the wrong thing can feel exhausting, you can’t help but like him—because you have those worries, too. The music he makes is unquestionably egalitarian: classically American piano ballads with names and lyrics that are each a blank canvas on which listeners can impose their own romantic ensnarlments – ‘For You’, ‘Without You’, ‘Can’t Stop Thinking About You’, ‘How Could You Babe’. portraits; Reviews. If it’s pure coincidence that the same day Adele’s ’25’ became the fastest selling album in US history, it’s a spooky one. And a few days later that same hat was stolen off the top of my head, as I was wearing it.”. Contributing to a record that’s sold 6 million times over in seven days has its financial rewards, but for Tobias it’s only half the story, or less. “That if I had a steady job playing at the same place every week, and people would come down to hear the new songs and be like, ‘I like that one’, or, ‘I don’t like that one so much.’ And at the end of the night you get your 200 bucks for food, and it’s all about the songs.”, “You’ve caught me at a really good time,” say Tobias once our shoot is over. When l ask him what he takes pride in about his music’s reception and his career, he says, “I feel better about I guess being able to pay rent, at least. Wait… am l crying? By the time he’d taught himself a little piano, recorded some demos just for fun and almost accidentally signed himself a record deal with Matador label True Panther Sounds, Tobias wasted no time name-checking Adele in his very first interview in late 2014. I used to say that I always thought of the music industry as one big hotel, and I just wanted one broom closet with a piano to be like, ‘at least it’s my own thing – I’m not trying to rip anyone off, I’m heavily influenced,’” he laughs, “and now I feel like the room is a little bit bigger and it’s still mine, I just need to invite bigger people in there to work with me, and that’s how I can afford it.”. And he was like: ‘Yeah, she’s coming to LA and you’re going to get to meet her and go in a room with her and you’re going to do something together.’ I was like a giddy schoolgirl. “‘Just listen to the song and imagine something a lot greater, someone with a big voice singing it.’ I don’t have the opportunity to explain that to people now: ‘OK, I know you’re here to see me, but pretend it’s not me…’”. “I’m 29, I’m not probably gonna be a hyped person for very long. At the end of the day we giggle whilst adding to the problem of people stepping in front of cars to hopelessly attempt to make it look as though they’re pinching or eating the famous landmark. They’re both long-since sold out, reflecting the fact that the singer-songwriter has recently received endorsements from Taylor Swift, Haim and Adele, who tweeted in January: “This is fantastic, click away,” in support of Jesso’s song ‘How Could You Babe’. I’m the guy that makes those guys coffee, and that’s that.’ And my record is about exactly that: Los Angeles and failing and a breakup.”. TOBIAS JESSO JR. PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMES MARSHALL. It’s called Serious Drama and it might be the best idea for anything that I’ve ever heard – a dark comedy about a misunderstood writer who is molested by Bigfoot at scout camp. I’ve met a couple at my shows, for sure. The happiness was at the top of my head and then the panic started to push it down. Alone at a piano, there was a learn-as-you-play charm to seeing an artist unsure of himself performing his simple but beautiful songs. “All the power to those people, I love them, but they’re not the kind of people who make me feel good about what I do – they are the people who think I need singing lessons, secretly.”. The protracted process seems to be a form of communication to the journalist sniffing the detergent in the air next to him, as if to say, ‘l’m a good ol’ guy, just like you—l just got a lucky break.’ When he says, “l’m a househusband—l’m just sitting here folding laundry,” what he means by “house” is a beautiful apartment, and what he means by “laundry” is actually merchandise touting his music, name, and face. He says he’s sat down to try and explain his feelings and decision in a statement more than once, but he can never find the words. “He was sat there on the souls of his feet and we just spoke and I told him all about the problems I’ve been having and after a while he didn’t say, ‘oh, just don’t do it then,’ far from it, he said: ‘From what you’re saying, it sounds like you do really want to tour and play shows, but you’re just not happy with how you’re doing that at the moment.’ And that’s exactly it. The COVID-19 crisis has cut off our advertising revenue stream, which is how we’ve always funded how we promoted new independent artists. “Whenever I used to play in my room for my friends, I always wanted to make sure they understood that it’s just about the song,” Jesso says. For his full career click here.. Involvement with King Princess Edit. After spending an afternoon with him on his street, and at the risk of adding to the problem, I’d say that the nice-guy-playing-sad-songs thing – the hopeless romantic, jolly giant with a soft heart bit – rings true, and happily so. On Black Friday 2015, he happens to be on a massive upswing, big enough to carry even him clear of misfortune’s retribution. Partager Facebook Twitter ... Crocodile Tears (une petite interview après) Tell The Truth Can We Still Be Friends Leaving Los Angeles Hollywood Without You. It’s definitely an indie thing, it’s not a mainstream thing – it’s for people who appreciate songs, for their structure and their lyrics. Tobias Jesso Jr. Interview Channelling the spirit of Harry Nilsson and Todd Rundgren, Tobias Jesso Jr.’s 70s-influenced piano ballads have already won him famous fans in Haim and Adele. Sleaford Mods: Things can't only get better. I did myself in January, and after larking around with the HOLLYWOOD sign and hearing all about Serious Drama, I still do today. God knows that the Adele effect would allow it. I didn’t do the song order. I’ve had like a football player – I think a professional one; I didn’t know his name, I’m not sure. La rédaction de Magic. His sense of humour is what I like most about him – it’s absurd, and he’s quick to riff off a joke you swing for or any bizarre imagery you throw at him in casual conversation. Interview. [Live] Nada Surf et John Vanderslice au Splendid 17 juin 2020; [Live] Les Victoires de la Musique 2020 20 février 2020; [Live] Romskip à Østre 30 janvier 2020 The Vaccines - Feature Interview. It wouldn’t be my voice on it, it would be someone like Adele, if we worked together again.”, “At the beginning of the year, I was eager and I had a lot of ideas about what I could be. More than that, he’d arrived at a point where he was covering other people’s material. Things don’t come easily to Tobias, but his has an uncanny knack of getting there in the end. And then we just talked a lot, and within an hour or so, as we were going through life stories, I’d remember a chord progression, or she’d tell me something and I’d be like: ‘Oh I’ve got something that would really work with that.’ We went back into the room, I sat down and started playing and she sang almost the song that came out. “I just feel like I was not meant for an artist career,” he says, plainly. I’ve been going to shows since I was 14 years old. Tobias Jesso Jr Interview: On Heartbreak, Hype And Being Championed By Adele This time last year, Tobias Jesso Jr. was living at his family home in … When I travel, I won’t go anywhere without people to go do something. Momentarily, the joking around on our shoot stops when Brian, our photographer, asks Tobias if he has any shows coming up. That’s the people who you want there. Every time I cancel a show I’m burning a bridge, though, I know that much. I don’t think that he is, however complaints of the press being too nice might come across in print. Tobias Jesso Jr. Interview Channelling the spirit of Harry Nilsson and Todd Rundgren, Tobias Jesso Jr.’s 70s-influenced piano ballads have already won him famous fans in Haim and Adele. It works out to just £1 per week, to receive our next 6 issues, our 15-year anniversary zine, access to our digital editions, the L&Q brass pin, exclusive playlists, the L&Q bookmark and loads of other extras. It sounds like complaining for complaining’s sake, and you’d think that constantly being described as Mr Nice Guy or a hopeless romantic would do wonders for your confidence, but not for Tobias, who loathed the pressure of living up to his happy-guy-singing-sad-songs public persona. “People write me about their own music, so I try to hit them back,” he says. Within a few short months, Tobias’ original concept for his show – the show of a songwriter and his songs, not of a performer and his act – was history. He offers me a T-shirt, and sheepishly says, “’m not a model,” as though l had made mention of his height (he’s 6ft 7in) and Clark Kent-ish good looks, which l had not. Not all of us have the charm to make it happen. When Brian asks if it’s because he needs a little time to regroup, Tobias says in a solemn tone that appears uncharacteristic: “No, it’s just no life for me. Tobias lives on a street in Hollywood that’s appeared in a thousand tourist photographs. But that time in L.A. was also like a wake-up call that that’s not going to happen. I’m happier around people; the more people the better.”, We meet in Jesso’s agent’s Brooklyn flat, where he’s sorting and folding clothes. Maybe’s he’s right – over his accelerated first year and album campaign, maybe he has peaked, so what the hell is he going to do next? At the show later that night, he realises l didn’t take a shirt, and wraps me in a sweatshirt stitched with the album’s title. “I’m like: ‘What’s going on?’ I was in the middle of a breakdown at the time, right on the edge. Tobias Jesso Jr. has the kind of backstory you used to see on Behind the Music. It’s the one where the HOLLYWOOD sign is directly in front of you from the moment you turn onto it, despite how long it goes on for. Téléchargements MP3 haute qualité de Tobias Jesso Jr. depuis 7digital France. This time last year, Tobias Jesso Jr. was living at his family home in Canada, working for a friend’s moving company and helping his mother through cancer. Tobias MacDonald Jesso Jr. (born July 11, 1985) is a Canadian musician from North Vancouver, British Columbia. He explains, “A goon is somebody who doesn’t take things too seriously. Talk about forward planning, he did it in order to capture the show for a line in a TV show he hasn’t had commissioned yet. His debut album Goon was released in 2015 on True Panther Sounds.He was included in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 20 Biggest Breakouts of 2015. Once you’ve got a kick-ass show band, the songs themselves, say Tobias, are buried under a hundred other elements that people can enjoy almost in isolation. It’s up to you then to say, no, let’s go back to its beginning.”, It’s hook-ups like face time with legendary music gurus – and, more importantly, how they’re handled – that make Tobias’ managers so indispensible. Adele has interviewed Tobias Jesso Jr. for The Guardian, asking the Canadian singer-songwriter about his favourite things. As soon as he said Adele, I was like: ‘H-o-l-y shit!’” The blood drains from his face; he freezes; he recreates his widening stare. Twitter RPM, c'est pour Revue Pop Moderne. Adele Interviews Tobias Jesso Jr., Previews "When We Were Young" By Sarah Murphy. “I’ve been telling them about Serious Drama,” he tells his manager, Mason, as he steps out of the house to see how we’re getting on. And I think that playing solo is the ultimate way to hear a songwriter play. Just as his band were “too good”, so too have his press interviews been too positive about the man behind the sad piano ballads. Having such a noticeable physical frame, however, failed to keep Jesso from being mistaken for a speed bump. I’m telling you, this hat was maaagic. Now the British singer has interviewed Tobias Jesso Jr., with the results appearing on the Guardian. “They could play anything,” he says, “so by the end I was just entertaining myself onstage, which doesn’t do anybody any good. How is that producing? So I went to work and I wrote and I wrote and I wrote. disque de Tobias Jesso Jr qui ne cesse de faire pleurer les garçons et les rock-critics (encore souvent des garçons) et pousse à faire des promesses extravagantes comme par exemple jurer de … Tobias tells me that his issue with interviews is that they lead to people writing about his character without really knowing him at all, and that includes me, of course. He did, but he’s just pulled bookings all over the world, from Europe to Australia. I was like: ‘Wait, now I’m trying to be a singer, because I’m trying to play with a band, and my voice has to be as powerful as this band that’s backing me up’, so the sound has to grow so we need to rearrange the songs, and at that point everything I’ve tried to hang onto as my core, the core is hollow now and I’m trying to be an act.” He sounds exasperated at the explanation, like a man who had stopped respecting his own songs in an attempt to fall in line with how he felt half of the audience were feeling. Made in France; Music Monday; Track of The Day; Concours; Playlists; Galerie photos. And he’d only started playing live a couple of months before that – just him, his piano and his sweetly imperfect voice. His name was Gunner Fox, and he made this hat. “The worst is when I get an email from someone saying that they’ve booked a trip to come and see me – that’s not good at all. I paid five dollars for one ticket, I won the hat, he made it custom to me, I wanted it to be huge… so I ask for this hat. My email address was ‘supermusicfan.’” He laughs, knowing how charming this is—but in a self-denigrating “goon” way, so it needs no explaining away this time. If I was to describe myself, it would be as a songwriter, there would be no ‘singer’ attached. That’s someone who I want as a fan because that’s someone who I am as a fan. “And you know that Adele is the only 10, right?”, That puts a negative, it’s-all-downhill-from-here slant on the future, but then Tobias – the raffle winner who never got to fully enjoy his hat – does say to me: “I’ve been on such a gain recently that I think a crash is on its way.”. Having something to show for my work, which was always sort of something I had trouble with before.” Aw, shucks. “I imagine what I do in a very specific way – songwriting is all I like and all I care about. “As a songwriter first, I don’t know how to describe it,” he says. The more we talk, though, the more I realise that the intervening months haven’t been a breeze as they’ve appeared to be. Coming to LA from Vancouver to be a songwriter, Tobias moved back … Tobias was drinking heavily, but the real problems began when he started playing with a full band – they were too good. Tobias Jesso Jr. (Bass, Vocals) The Sessions were a Canadian dance-rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia. He’s questioning if he really needs to put himself on stage anymore. Le premier album de Tobias Jesso Jr. est (enfin) paru et sa musique d'inspiration seventies va appartenir à tout le monde. “If there’s a cover of one of my songs [on YouTube], I’ll put it up to kind of show it off. “I’m having a good time sat here eating this delicious meal, but put me in a stressful situation I haven’t been in and see how much learning I’ve done then. So I’d be like: ‘What do you guys want us to play? The band won the world's largest battle of the bands, Emergenza, in 2006. “Other than working for my friend, I was just sitting in my house writing with the piano. Adele and Tobias Jesso Jr. recently teamed up to record "When We Were Young", a track from Adele's new album 25. “Ben and Mason was the best decision I’ve ever made,” he tells me. Adele and Tobias Jesso Jr. recently went into the studio together, working on fresh material.. “From my toes to my head all the happiness was flowing in. Members included bassist Tobias Jesso Jr. drummer Martin Kottmeier, and guitarists Tristan Norton and Joshua Helgason. Une journée avec… News. Belle carte de visite, disque non exempt de défauts mineurs, Goon révèle au grand jour la sensibilité de ce fils spirituel de John Lennon ou Randy Newman. I got a little lost along the way, and it was like, the shows are going to get bigger, so we need the sound to be bigger… and I was so insecure about playing shows that we added a band. The Sessions formed in 2005. After spending an afternoon with him on his street, and at the risk of adding to the problem, I’d say that the nice-guy-playing-sad-songs thing – the hopeless romantic, jolly giant … Achetez, pré-écoutez et téléchargez parmi 25 millions de titres sur notre boutique. “The songwriting thing is something I feel great about,” he says, “and it’s going to be very important to me and my happiness, but there’s a part of me that doesn’t want to give up on the touring just because I didn’t have a good run of it the first time around, because I didn’t write good songs for the first four years of my life. This story sums up Tobias Jesso Jr’s life so far – a guy who attracts the best of luck and the worst of luck, sometimes on consecutive days. “I’m not the type of performer I want to be,” he says, before expressing how sorry he is to those fans that have bought tickets to his shows that have been cancelled. “These things just tend to happen,” he says, giving full credit to Mason, Ben and third manager Will. As you round the corner of Sunset Boulevard and enter into the Echo Park neighborhood of East L.A., you’ll come face-to-face with Tobias Jesso Jr. “I was doing more things that I hated than I was doing that I loved,” he explains to me over lunch. Three years ago, while … Explains His Swift Ascent From Rock Bottom The Adele-endorsed piano man tells Rachel Martin how a very bad week turned into a very good year. Tous les deux mois en kiosque et tous les jours sur Internet. He’s been Adele’s biggest fan since he first heard her music in 2009; right around the time he arrived in LA from Vancouver to make it as a songwriting gun for hire. Tobias Jesso Jr. is the perfect everygoon. Tobias Jesso Jr. is a nice guy ... Tobias tells me that his issue with interviews is that they lead to people writing about his character without really knowing him at all, and that includes me, of course. Inspired by the … “I’m not saying that I’ve suffered more than anyone else this year,” he adds, “and I wouldn’t change any of the bad, because I’ve been given some amazing opportunities. “The past year has been the year in which I’ve suffered and learned the most, of any year in my life, and also been given the most. Despite myself, l’m just like him, according to both my updated outfit and my participation in a singalong of a track called, simply – typically – ‘True Love’. Jesso’s apparent anxieties are perhaps exacerbated by his late-breaking success. “Sia ended up using a couple of [Adele’s] songs, and I was another huge fan of Sia, and when she came in I’d never been so scared. From wake-up to going to bed, I’m with someone. Tobias Jesso Jr. is a nice guy – the kind you want to be friends with – but clearly he’s right when he insists that it’s not the entire story. Découvert en fin d'année par la … Music News: Adele Interviews Tobias Jesso Jr. JW Anderson Revives Old House Codes For MAW21 and PF21 We arrived at this topic because Tobias played a show earlier in the year dressed as Bigfoot, his band in Boy Scout costumes. When I arrive at the house in the morning, Tobias is familiar as the person I interviewed at the beginning of the year – a joker with a reason to be happy; a guy who’s making his way in show business after it killed his spirit the first time around. I Love L.A. 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