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If Taylor Swift has just one fan, it’s BFF and longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff.
Antonoff, 39, proudly defended Swift, 34, in a Los Angeles Times interview printed on Wednesday, February 28, admitting that he will be “a bit bitch generally” when critics come for Swift’s songwriting expertise.
“[It’s] like difficult somebody’s religion in God. You simply don’t go there,” he mentioned.
Antonoff went on to name out Kanye West, whose rocky historical past with Swift dates again to 2009. In Antonoff’s candid opinion, the 46-year-old rapper “simply wants his diaper modified so badly.”
Taylor Swift has had loads of collaborators over time, however none of them have caught fairly like Jack Antonoff. Since their 2012 assembly, the pair have labored collectively on 10 albums and some one-off singles — and have become greatest buddies within the course of. “Typically he sits on the piano and we each simply […]
When requested whether or not he would ever contemplate working with West as a producer, Antonoff laughed off the suggestion. “It’s been a very long time since I might’ve taken Kanye’s name,” he added. “I’m so extremely bored when somebody doesn’t have the sauce anymore, so that they go elsewhere to shock. It’s only a exceptional waste of area.”
Antonoff took goal at West through X weeks earlier after studying that one in all West’s Vultures albums shares its March 8 launch date with the upcoming self-titled Bleachers report. (The primary a part of Vultures, a collaborative mission with Ty Dolla $ign, dropped earlier this month.)
Jack Antonoff and Taylor Swift carry out onstage for the 63rd Annual GRAMMY Awards broadcast on March 14, 2021. TAS Rights Administration 2021 through Getty Photos
“Kanye on bleachers launch date is hilarious little cry child bitch,” Antonoff quipped in a January 23 social media submit.
Taylor Swift has not solely made headlines for her chart-topping music over time, but additionally her a number of high-profile celeb feuds. In January 2022, Swift bought right into a social media argument with musician Damon Albarn after he claimed she shouldn’t name herself a songwriter if she isn’t the one inventive credited on a monitor. “I […]
Antonoff and Swift have labored collectively on 10 albums since assembly in 2012, praising each other’s contributions and expertise all through their friendship. “Typically he sits on the piano and we each simply begin ad-libbing and the tune appears to create itself,” Swift advised The New York Occasions in Could 2017. “His pleasure and enthusiasm about writing songs is contagious. He’s an absolute pleasure. That’s why everybody loves him. I personally wouldn’t belief somebody who didn’t.”
Whereas celebrating the discharge of 1989 (Taylor’s Model) in October 2023, Swift mirrored on the primary tune she and Antonoff joined forces on: “Sweeter Than Fiction” from the 2013 film One Likelihood.
“There you’ll stand ten toes tall, I’ll say ‘I knew all of it alongside,’” Swift wrote through Instagram, sharing throwback images of herself and Antonoff. “This tune has all the time made me consider my good friend Jack. It was the primary tune we made collectively and watching him problem himself and make lovely artwork over time has been the fun of a lifetime. How can he be 6 years older than me and in addition one way or the other nonetheless be my precocious younger son? We might by no means know. ‘Sweeter Than Fiction (My Model)’ is now obtainable solely at Goal on Tangerine vinyl 🍊.”
Antonoff, in the meantime, opened up in regards to the stunning challenges of revisiting Swift’s music for her rerecordings. (Swift is rereleasing her first six albums following a dispute together with her former report label, Huge Machine.)
“There are such a lot of issues on so lots of these classes that I used to be like, ‘Oh, you little freak,’” Antonoff advised Vulture in December 2023 of revisiting the songs he produced for 1989 (Taylor’s Model). “Little layering I might do then, ’trigger you undergo phases, and it made me really feel actually candy. That youthful model of me that was simply piling s–t on, I imply, ‘Out of the Woods’ is rather like [the] kitchen sink.”
He likened the expertise of recreating the songs to “discovering an outdated diary,” saying that his preliminary imaginative and prescient for 1989 was a “bizarre, messy symphony and I find it irresistible to this present day.”
