Jack Antonoff on Taylor Swift, Collaborations & Rant Bridges

0:00On April 29, Jack Antonov just opened up on Howard Stern about his 10-year run producing for Taylor Swift, starting with her 1989 album Back in 2014 and hitting 11 albums total before she switched to Max Martin and Shell Back. He says he's straight up grateful for it all and gets why artists mix up their collaborators to keep things fresh. Antonov points to his own stacked resume with folks like Kendrick Lamar, Lord, and Sabrina Carpenter. As proof that bouncing between producers is THE way to go, he calls it unnatural to stick with the same team forever and when vibes fade it's a miracle to move on with Audrama. Swift backed him up in her New York Times interview, calling Antonov one of her best friends and shouting out their signature move, The Rand Bridge, is that raw stream of consciousness explosion in a song's bridge, mixing emotions, metaphors, and straight yelling to hit the peak intensity. They cooked up hits like cruel summer this way, building poetic verses and choruses first,

1:02then unleashing everything in the bridge once they've earned that freedom. Antonov says they just egg each other on to make it wild. Antonov also dropped gems from his Jersey roots, named the Beatles's, Happiness is a warm gun as the greatest track ever and shared how his band, Funz. We are young, almost landed on Kanye and Jay-Z's Watch The Throne. Their chemistry keeps evolving, no cap. That wraps entertainment and celebrity news today. Brought to you with AI, I'm Corey with The Story.