But she was also slumming it a little, gearing up for the release of Break Up with Yorn. At the time, Johansson was starring with Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly and Bradley Cooper in He’s Just Not That Into You, which grossed more than $181 million worldwide. In 2009, he released Back & Fourth, another solid effort that spent a full five weeks on the Billboard album chart and peaked at #32. Pete Yorn was the culmination of a very prolific two-year period for Yorn. Pete Yorn Is Thinking Of: Bruce Springsteen’s “Darkness On The Edge Of Town” At the time, Yorn was supporting his self-titled fifth album it spent only one week on the Billboard album chart (at #66), but we loved the Frank Black-produced LP anyway. So it’s no surprise that back in 2010 (while Johansson was playing Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow-for the first time-in Iron Man 2, the third-highest-grossing film of the year), when we asked Yorn to be our boss for the week and guest edit our website, he wrote about, well, his boss: The Boss.
In fact, he wears it proudly on his jean jacket’s raggedy sleeve. Yorn’s never hid his hero worship for fellow Jersey boy Bruce Springsteen. MAGNET Classics: The Making Of Pete Yorn’s “Musicforthemorningafter”Īs for the aforementioned ArrangingTime, upon its release, we said it showed Yorn to be a “power-pop genius on full display,” calling “Roses” an “instant classic.” (At the time, Johansson was playing Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow-for the fifth time-in Captain America: Civil War, the highest-grossing film of 2016.) ArrangingTime spent only one week on the Billboard album chart (at #63), but we loved it anyway:Įssential New Music: Pete Yorn’s “ArrangingTime” (At the time, Johansson was 16 and a relatively unknown actress starring in cult classic Ghost World, not the highest-grossing actress of all time in North America she is now.) Yorn’s debut stands up to this day, which is why we deemed the gold-selling album a MAGNET Classic last year:
We were immediately smitten with the then 27-year-old Yorn when he released his musicforthemorningafterdebut in 2010.
The EP’s first single is “Bad Dreams,” which has a trippy and terrific Sophie Muller-directed video: While not as essential as a proper Yorn release, Apart is further proof he’s a multi-talented, first-rate songwriter in it for the long haul. Yorn and Johansson have just released the Apart EP (Capitol), featuring four new songs and a reworking of “Tomorrow” (a standout from ArrangingTime, Yorn’s underrated 2016 LP). Well, maybe Yorn and Johansson aren’t quite yet in that rarified air of legendary male/female duos, but if you thought 2009’s Break Up was a one-album fling, you don’t know Pete.
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