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NBC News
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- NBC News
Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff re-create iconic moment to celebrate her historic masters purchase
Taylor Swift is enjoying her 'Reputation' era again after breaking the news that she now owns her master recordings. Swift announced in a May 30 letter on her website that after re-recording four of her albums — dubbed 'Taylor's Version' — she bought back all of her masters, including her 2006 self-titled debut and 2017's 'Reputation.' Swift's longtime friend and producer, Jack Antonoff, shared a video of the duo on X the night of May 30 as they enjoyed a 'guilt free' listen of 'Reputation' to celebrate the news. In the clip, Swift and Antonoff sang the album's ninth track, 'Getaway Car' and re-created a viral moment from her 2020 documentary 'Miss Americana' where they wrote the song together. Swift was initially carrying her cat Meredith at the start of the video before placing the feline down to finish the tune with Antonoff, who screamed as the clip ended. 'rep forever guilt free listening!' Antonoff captioned the post. After re-recording four of her albums, including 'Fearless,' 'Speak Now,' 'Red' and '1989,' Swift addressed in her May 30 letter to fans whether she would be re-releasing the rest of her first six albums to complete the project. 'What about Rep TV? Full transparency: I haven't even re-recorded a quarter of it,' Swift wrote on her website. 'The Reputation album was so specific to that time in my life, and I kept hitting a stopping point when I tried to remake it…To be perfectly honest, it's the one album in those first 6 that I thought couldn't be improved upon by redoing it. Not the music, or the photos, or the videos. So I kept putting it off.' However, Swift shared, 'I've already completely re-recorded my entire debut album, and I really love how it sounds now.' Whether fans will get to hear 'Taylor's Version' of those two albums — or even just the vault tracks — remains unknown, with the singer writing, 'But if it happens, it won't be from a place of sadness and longing for what I wish I could have. It will just be a celebration now.' After working with Swift on several tracks from 2014's '1989,' Antonoff and Swift kicked off a long partnership of co-writing and producing her subsequent albums, including 'Reputation,' 'Lover,' 'Folklore,' 'Evermore,' 'Midnights' and several songs on her most recent record, 'The Tortured Poets Department.' During an October 2023 appearance on 'Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist,' Antonoff opened up about his friendship and working relationship with Swift over the decades, including why he thinks they work so well together. 'That relationship has gone on and on and on and I think we've just pushed each other endlessly,' Antonoff explained. 'I could quantify our relationship in very reductive ways about the things we agree on, the sounds we like, but the truth is, we've just grown together. She's put an amazing amount of belief in me.'
USA Today
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Jack Antonoff posted the perfect video to celebrate Taylor Swift finally owning her music
Jack Antonoff posted the perfect video to celebrate Taylor Swift finally owning her music The internet was ablaze on Friday after pop icon Taylor Swift announced she had regained control of her entire catalog. Swift bought her music back from Shamrock Capital for the reported cost of $360 million, and it included her first six albums that she had been in the process of re-recording. Reputation (Taylor's Version) and Taylor Swift (Taylor's Version) were the last two albums that hadn't gotten the re-release treatment. Fans will likely still get the last two re-recorded albums -- or at least the vault tracks in the case of Reputation -- but the celebration was on for the conclusion of her ownership saga. Jack Antonoff, Swift's longtime friend and producer for several of her albums, took to Twitter/X on Friday night with the most perfect possible post to commemorate the moment. In a never-before-seen video, Antonoff and Swift -- and Swift's cat, Meredith! -- were seen singing "Getaway Car" off Reputation with the caption, "rep forever guilt free listening!" The video also was a nod to the viral moment where cameras caught Swift and Antonoff writing the bridge to "Getaway Car" in the studio. They also played on the clip during the London Night 8 Eras Tour show on August 20th, with Antonoff coming on stage for the surprise song section to re-enact the original moment. If Antonoff was saving this video for a big occasion, Swift's purchase is as good of a reason to share it as any.
Yahoo
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Here's Why Lorde Didn't Work With Jack Antonoff on ‘Virgin'
After working with Jack Antonoff on her last two albums, Lorde surprised fans in April when she announced her fourth studio LP, Virgin, and the producer's name was nowhere to be found in the credits. But in a Rolling Stone cover story published Thursday (May 15), the New Zealand pop star finally explained why she chose not to work with her longtime collaborator this time around. Calling Antonoff a 'positive, supportive' teammate, she revealed that she simply felt like it was time to make a change. More from Billboard Everything We Know About Lorde's 'Virgin' So Far Andy Bell Confirms His Place in Reunited Oasis Lineup Snoop Dogg Drops 'Iz It a Crime' Album Featuring Sexyy Red, Wiz Khalifa & Pharrell: Stream It Now 'I'm very vibes-based,' she told the publication. 'I just have to trust when my intuition says to keep moving.' For Virgin, Lorde's intuition led her to Jim-E Stack, who executive produced the album alongside the 'Royals' singer. She also worked with producers Fabiana Palladino, Andrew Aged, Buddy Ross, Dan Nigro and Dev Hynes of Blood Orange on the record. Her partnership with Stack and Hynes will extend to touring when she embarks on her Ultrasound trek in September, with both collaborators serving as opening acts along with The Japanese House, Nilüfer Yanya, Chanel Beads, Empress Of and Oklou. 'Very proud and excited to be bringing my most talented friends in support,' Lorde said when she announced the tour on May 8. 'Come see what's under the skin.' Dropping June 27, Virgin will arrive four years after Lorde's last album, Solar Power. Both the 2021 LP and 2017's Melodrama were produced by Antonoff, with whom the 'Green Light' artist famously had a close friendship. 'When I came to New York, we had only written together maybe a couple of times, and we were very obsessed with each other on a creative level and as buds,' Lorde told Billboard of her dynamic with the Bleachers frontman in 2018. 'I was sort of doing nothing in New York, and we did this thing where for five days in a row, we just kept having dinner every night, just getting to know each other.' 'We still FaceTime almost every day,' she added at the time. 'When you work with someone, you sometimes think, 'Maybe it will just be for this time, and we say we're going to keep in touch but we won't.' But we really … I'm like, 'Hey, dickhead, what are you getting me for Christmas?'' The two stars were so close as friends and collaborators, they often found themselves faced with rumors that their relationship had turned romantic. Both parties, however, denied the speculation on multiple occasions, with Antonoff tweeting in 2018, 'normally i would never address rumors but i resent having the most important friendships and working relationships in my life reduced to dumb hetero normative gossip … im not seeing anyone. lol.' The next month, Lorde told fans on an Instagram Live, 'Jack and I are not dating … I love him. He's awesome, but we're not dating.' See Lorde on the cover of Rolling Stone below. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
