“chinatown” by Bleachers featuring Bruce Springsteen

"chinatown" teamed Bleachers with Bruce Springsteen, one of the two songs that led the way to Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, the album that arrived on July 30, 2021. Jack Antonoff sings it, wrote the words, co-wrote the music with Evan Smith and produced it with Patrik Berger, and he plays a big share of it too: electric and acoustic guitar, bass, keyboards and drum machine. Smith adds synth and sax, Berger glockenspiel and synth, and Jacob Braun's cello and Serena McKinney's violin warm the edges.

Springsteen keeps to background vocals, and that restraint is the point; The New York Times' Jon Pareles heard him drifting in like a patron saint through the mist. Carlotta Kohl's video follows a man from New York City to New Jersey, a nod to what the state means to both singers.

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