Jack Antonoff hits again at critics who query Taylor Swift’s songwriting
Jack Antonoff has hit again on the critics who query Taylor Swift‘s songwriting capacity.
The producer and Bleachers frontman has labored on each Swift album since her enormous 2014 report ‘1989’, and as soon as once more teamed up with the pop star on her new LP ‘The Tortured Poets Division’ (out April 19).
That’s based on the Los Angeles Times, which requested Antonoff about his response to Damon Albarn’s incorrect previous declare that Swift doesn’t write her personal songs. In response to the comment (itself coming from an LA Instances interview), the producer stated on the time: “In case you had been there…cool…go off. If not…perhaps…shut the fuck up?”
Antonoff later known as Albarn’s controversial remark “fully absurd”, explaining: “You’re speaking about one of many biggest songwriters of our era who has her title as the one title on many songs. You don’t want me to clarify it – it’s reality.”
He added: “I don’t prefer it when artists take nearly this Trumpian method of simply making issues up.”
When the LA Instances reminded Antonoff of the spat of their newest dialog with the producer, he stated: “I’m a bit bitch generally. However you come after my pal Taylor, you’re toast to me.”
He went on to say that questioning Swift’s songwriting expertise was “like difficult somebody’s religion in God”, including: “You simply don’t go there.”
Elsewhere within the interview, Antonoff hit out at Kanye West – who has been embroiled in a long-standing feud with Swift – saying that the ‘Vultures 1’ rapper “simply wants his diaper modified so badly”.
When requested if he’s ever thought twice about having a dig at an artist he may sometime wish to collaborate with, the producer replied: “It’s been a very long time since I might’ve taken Kanye’s name.
“I’m so extremely bored when somebody doesn’t have the sauce anymore, in order that they go elsewhere to shock. It’s only a outstanding waste of area.”
Earlier this month, Antonoff gained the Producer Of The 12 months award on the Grammys 2024. The ceremony additionally noticed Swift’s 2022 report ‘Midnights’ (on which Antonoff is credited as a producer and co-writer) win the Album Of The 12 months and Finest Pop Vocal Album statues.
The pop star not too long ago stated that writing ‘The Tortured Poets Division” “was actually a lifeline for me”, including: “Simply the issues I used to be going by way of and the issues I used to be writing about.”
She continued: “It type of jogged my memory of why songwriting is one thing that really will get me by way of my life, and I by no means had an album the place I wanted songwriting greater than I wanted it on ‘Tortured Poets’.”
In different information, Taylor Swift is nominated for Worldwide Artist Of The 12 months on the BRIT Awards 2024. This 12 months’s ceremony will happen at The O2 in London on Saturday (March 2).