Jack Antonoff Responds to Backlash for Using Earplugs During the VMAs

Jack Antonoff clapped again on the backlash he acquired for sporting earplugs on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.

“I wish to let you know instantly from me that I did in truth use earplugs the opposite night time,” the document producer, 40, wrote through a prolonged assertion shared through X on Thursday, September 12. “They had been blue ‘hearos’ model and I’m mortified to confess that I’ve been utilizing them for a very long time in addition to shopping for them in bulk.”

Antonoff shared he wished to be “trustworthy” and revealed that he makes use of the earplugs not simply when he’s in “100 plus DB environments.”

“It’s humiliating to confess that I take advantage of them on planes and each night time whereas [I] sleep,” he continued. “There’s nothing left to do however apologize and thank those that have coated this story as a result of though it’s a humiliation to my household and I, I do consider that this was a vital and urgent subject that wanted to be uncovered.”

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The Bleachers frontman humorously added he was “sorry to these I let down.”

“In the present day I cannot [be] going to work and as a substitute occupied with my earplug use and everybody that has been affected by it,” he quipped.

Antonoff teased that following this incident, he and the remainder of the band “have determined to maintain all dates as scheduled.”

A number of followers jokingly replied to Antonoff’s assertion in outrage.

“How DARE you, a music producer, use earplugs to guard your listening to?” one consumer retorted whereas one other wrote, “Thanks for lastly talking up about this.”

Throughout the VMAs on Wednesday, September 11, Antonoff was noticed sporting earplugs all through the present. Followers took main discover of Antonoff’s ear equipment throughout Katy Perry’s efficiency in honor of her profitable the coveted Video Vanguard Award on the UBS Enviornment in New York.

Antonoff was within the viewers with spouse Margaret Qualley and long-time collaborator Taylor Swift. Swift, 34, was seen dancing as Perry, 39, sang a medley of her best hits. Whereas the “Girls’s World” singer carried out, Antonoff adjusted his earplugs whereas embracing his spouse.

Some social media customers initially thought Antonoff was placing in headphones through the efficiency whereas others got here to his protection stating they had been earplugs.

“’He’s not sporting AirPods omg, he’s placing in earplugs to guard his listening to,” one consumer replied. “Fairly widespread observe at massive loud concert events particularly when you have got a job the place defending your listening to is necessary.”