Jack Johnson Says His Romantic Love Songs Are ‘Just Jokes’

Jack Johnson may be known for releasing some of the most romantic songs of all time, however, the musician has revealed that his love songs are “just jokes”.

Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Johnson has stated that many of his love songs were actually personal jokes between him and his wife Kim Johnson.

“Love songs are just jokes, they’re all trying to make my wife laugh. Most of the time it’s because I forgot a birthday or forgot it’s a birthday or whatever, I wake up and I’m like, ‘Oh, I have to do something here real quick. So I’m just going to start doing something that I know is going to make her happy.” did he declare.

However, the “Better Together” singer revealed that he sometimes writes songs just for his wife that he doesn’t release.

“And then some of them are so personal, I never share them and they’re just for her.”

In the same interview, Johnson talked about his creative music writing process.

“Little ideas will come out of nowhere, and then the songwriting process for me is whatever that original spark is, I’ll just try to start asking myself a question like, ‘Why is this line spinning? on a loop in my brain right now? What does it mean?”

“Sometimes I ignore it, sometimes I go for a while where I have other things going on and I don’t think about writing songs at all. And then there’s a point where I’m like, “I’m going to try and get all these bits of paper that I’ve written in one or two lines together,” and then see what happens and see if I can put them together. , and it’s fun.

He added: “I feel like sometimes I’m playing the role of a songwriter, and other times I don’t even think of myself as that at all, it’s like, ‘I’m a dad , I work on this farm over here. Actual experiences, of course, always help the songs. If I’m just sitting there thinking in a quiet room trying to write songs and you’re not taking anything…you’ve got nothing to get out. So it’s more important as a songwriter, I think, to have real experiences and then you can share them.

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