Jack Antonoff & Taylor Swift on Collab & Rant Bridge

0:00On April 29th, Jack Antonov hit up the Howard Stern show this Tuesday to hype his band Bleacher's 5th album every one for 10 minutes. He dove deep into his long-running collab with Taylor Swift, going back before her 1989 album all the way to the tortured poets. Department and her re-recorded Fearless and Red, Antonov called it a weird miracle to stick with the same creative partners that long without getting fed up. He broke down their special songwriting trick they called the Rant Bridge, where you build up poetic verses and choruses then unleash raw emotion in the bridge. It's like earning the right to just crash out and get real. Antonov said they egg each other on to make it happen. Swift backed that up the same day in her New York Times magazine interview, naming Antonov one of her best friends and a key collaborator. She described the Rant Bridge as a stream of consciousness, poor-out mixing feelings, thoughts, metaphors, and shouts. She pointed to tracks like Out of the Woods from 2014, Cruel Summer from 2019, and is it over now from 2023?

1:07Swift also shared how a car ride with her fiance Travis Kelsey sparked her single Elizabeth Taylor from The Life of a Showgirl. She was rambling about loving Elizabeth Taylor's violet eyes, and boom, a melody hit her as they pulled up. She scrambled for her phone's voice memo apt to capture it. These spontaneous moments where songs just flow in are how most of her music comes together, Swift explained. Is that magic grab and go vibe, keeping her catalog fresh and real? Music news today, powered by AI bringing you what's trending and sound.