Jack Antonoff's Wife Issues Telling Response After Her Husband Was Mysteriously Left Off of Taylor Swift's New Album
Today host Craig Melvin talked to The Substance actress on the morning show and pointed out that her husband 'has produced for Taylor for years.' He asked if she knew anything about the new album. Margaret responded, 'I don't know anything.' She added, 'I'll be excited to listen to the music.'
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When announcing the newest album on her boyfriend Travis Kelce's podcast New Heights, Swift explained that she, Max Martin, and Shellback were the sole producers of the album. 'We've never actually made an album before where it's just the three of us,' she continued, before confirming: 'There's no other collaborators. It's just the three of us making a focused album.'
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Antonoff, along with Aaron Dessner, were producers for Swift's last five albums including The Tortured Poets Department, evermore, folklore, and her re-recorded Taylor's Versions. Legendary pop producer Max Martin and his frequent collaborator Shellback worked with Swift during her transition into pop from country, when they produced many songs on Red and 1989. Swift revealed that she reunited with the Grammy award winning producer when she was in Sweden for her Eras Tour. 'When I was on tour in Stockholm, I had Max Martin come out to the show, and I was talking to him, and I was like, 'I just feel like we could knock it out of the park if we went back in.'
Though as any Swiftie knows, Antonoff and Swift will always be besties. ('I love you to death, Taylor,' he said when he won Producer of the Year at the Grammys in 2024.) She recalled fondly about the time they worked together on the podcast saying that their past projects were 'esoteric.' 'I was just kind of exploring and trying to challenge myself as a writer,' she said. However, the Bleachers frontman isn't really straying away from the TS universe. He's credited as a main producer of Sabrina Carpenter's Man's Best Friend, and the 'Please Please Please' singer is featured on the last song on The Life of a Showgirl.
As for what to expect from Swift, Shellback, and Martin, Swift said of the collaboration, 'By the time we came back together, I feel like we had so much more dexterity to what we do,' adding: 'It felt like all three of us in the room were carrying the same weight as creators.'
The goals for the album were simple to Swift. 'I essentially said to him, 'I want to be as proud of it as an album as I am of the Eras Tour, and for the same reasons,' she said. 'And he was like, 'Do you understand what kind of pressure that is?''
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