From Lorde’s Melodrama to Lana Del Rey’s Norman F—ing Rockwell, each of which earned album of the 12 months Grammy nominations, Jack Antonoff’s affect as considered one of pop music’s most prolific and acclaimed producers in plain. On Thursday (Aug. 17), Antonoff mentioned the arc of his profession, and Taylor Swift’s affect on it, throughout a dialog on Time‘s Particular person of the Week podcast.
“She’s the primary one who acknowledged me as a producer. Lots of people are afraid to log off on one thing that isn’t executed by a confirmed particular person. I had written a number of songs and produced them, however they might at all times form of go someplace else,” he stated of Swift’s help of his work on 1989‘s “Out of the Woods.” “So the label or whoever might say, oh, we had this particular person produce it. And, you understand, I put my coronary heart and soul into that music and he or she stated, ‘I like it.’”
Swift and Antonoff first collaborated in 2013 on the Golden Globe-nominated music “Sweeter Than Fiction” from the movie One Probability. They’ve since advanced into considered one of pop music’s strongest producer-artist duos, working collectively on the Billboard 200-topping data 1989 (2014), Status (2017), Lover (2019), Folklore (2020), Evermore (2020), Fearless (Taylor’s Model) (2021), Crimson (Taylor’s Model) (2021), Midnights (2022) and Communicate Now (Taylor’s Model) (2023).
Antonoff’s work with Swift in addition to St. Vincent, Enjoyable., Lorde, Lana Del Rey, The Chicks, Diana Ross, Florence + the Machine and extra has earned him eight Grammys, together with two consecutive triumphs within the producer of the 12 months, non-classical class. Final 12 months, “Anti-Hero,” which he crafted alongside Swift, debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100.
“I had performed her that observe, and I bear in mind, we had been at my condominium in New York. And typically she will get this look in her eye the place she’s like, ‘Oh, I’m entering into,’” he recounted. “You recognize, she goes in in many alternative methods and is simply the best author and vocalist ever. However on that one, I simply bear in mind watching her and being like, ‘Uh-oh. We’ve received a dwell one.’” On condition that “Anti-Hero” finally turned Swift’s longest-running Sizzling 100 No. 1 (eight weeks), they definitely did have a “dwell one.”
With Bleachers, Jack Antonoff has earned three entries on the Billboard 200, reaching as excessive as No. 11 with 2014’s Unusual Want. On Sizzling Rock & Different Songs, he has charted seven entries, together with his sole high 10 hit “I Wanna Get Higher” (No. 10).
