Jack Antonoff talks about working with Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey
Jack Antonoff has spoken about his previous experiences working with Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey, which he has described as “magic”.
Talking with Zane Lowe for Apple Music 1, the musician, songwriter and producer opened up about his working relationship with the 2 singers. In keeping with the hit producer, there’s “magic” within the air each time he will get into the studio with Swift and Del Rey, although he’s uncertain how lengthy it’ll final.
“Each time we do one thing new, I joke, ‘I suppose we nonetheless acquired it,’ as a result of there’s no motive for it to maintain coming the way in which it does,” Antonoff mentioned to Lowe. He continued: “There’s loads of magic there,” Antonoff continued. “I really feel that method with Taylor, I really feel that method with Lana.”
Antonoff defined additional: “It’s virtually like, the extra we do, the much less I anticipate it. As a result of I usually suppose to myself, properly, how for much longer might we actually maintain having this spark? And I’m simply grateful that it’s there, and I don’t know the place it comes from or the place it goes, however the one factor that I’ve seen is that anybody who claims to know the place it comes from and the place it goes burns out fairly fast.”
Lowe and Antonoff then spoke about Lana Del Rey’s acclaimed 2019 album ‘Norman Fucking Rockwell!’, which the latter described as a surreal expertise. When it got here time for Antonoff and Del Rey to work on ‘Mariners Condominium Advanced’, the producer revealed that he was blown away when he witnessed Lana writing the monitor’s refrain in actual time whereas singing within the sales space.
“She simply acquired behind the mic, she simply sang that half,” he recalled. “She heard it, I heard it. And if anybody didn’t hear how sensible it was, they’re a moron.”
Jack Antonoff most just lately received the award for Producer of the Yr, Non-Classical on the 2024 Grammys. His band, Bleachers, dropped their self-titled fourth earlier this month. The file scored a four-star assessment from Rhian Daly for NME.
Dhaly wrote: “The Lana Del Rey-featuring ‘Alma Mater’ is a major instance of the Bleachers genius, ‘Tiny Strikes’’ glistening undercurrent seems like a sprinkle of magic, and ‘Jesus Is Lifeless’’s whispered indie rock evaluation of New York micro-scenes and life in a band is pure gold. In these moments – a big chunk of this album – any trace of fatigue is blasted away, Antonoff’s presence a welcome one as soon as once more.”