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How Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff Keep Their Songwriting Fresh: ‘It’s Always an Off-the-Cuff Surprise’
Longtime Taylor Swift coollaborator Jack Antonoff explains how the two keep their songwriting fresh: 'I never know what's gonna happen next,' he says.
“I never know what’s gonna happen next,” says Antonoff — Variety ’s Hitmakers producer of the decade — who is not Swift’s only collaborator but has certainly been the one she’s worked with the most over the past 10 years. He seems an unlikely presence on such a gentle song as “Fortnight,” built around a softly pulsating synthesized bass line from Antonoff, but Post reveals a tender side that one might not have suspected from the face-tattooed hellion rapper behind “Beerbongs & Bentleys.” The remarkable comeback of “Cruel Summer” is actually more of a 2023 story — the song was one of two by Swift on last year’s Hitmakers Top 25 — but it was big enough to carry into this year as well, largely due to its placement on the setlist of “The Eras Tour”: After a tiny snippet of “Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince,” the real start of the show was “Cruel Summer.”
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