Taylor Swift's collaborator Jack Antonoff abruptly shuts down interview after ... trends now
Jack Antonoff shut down an interview after being asked if he was collaborating on pal Taylor Swift's upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department.
The songwriter and record producer, 39, who's frequently worked with the Bad Blood hitmaker, 34, in the past, hung up on a Dutch news outlet NRC after being questioned about the project, as per Page Six.
'You know I don't talk about that. If you're looking for clickbait, you've come to the wrong place. Thank you for this conversation,' he said, before ending the interview.
Earlier in the conversation Antonoff — who recently slammed Swift's nemesis Kanye West — mentioned Swift as he compared his latest project Bleachers with the music he has produced for Swift as well as songbird Lana Del Rey, 38.
'I don't see it as producing. I create music with my friends. It comes as it comes. I'm not the kind of producer who likes to give commands from behind a mixing console.'
Jack Antonoff shut down an interview after being asked if he was collaborating on pal Taylor Swift's upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department; he is seen in March in NYC
The record producer, 39, who's frequently worked with Swift, 34, in the past, hung up on a Dutch news outlet NRC after being questioned about the project; the two seen in 2024
'I concern myself with the music itself; the way in which you can manage the creative process,' he explained.
'Success is a strange phenomenon. It distracts attention from the ordinary mechanisms that lead to good pop music,' he added.
'Being able to listen to each other well is one thing. The artists I work with trust that I can help them make their music better.'
Tortured Poets Department is Swift's 11th studio album scheduled to be released on April 19.
Swift shocked fans when she announced her new album while accepting a 2024 Grammy in February for best pop vocal album for Midnights, which Antonoff co-produced. He also co-wrote 12 of the 13 songs on the LP.
It's not the first time Antonoff has proved to be a fiercely loyal friend to Swift, after he defended her songwriting abilities and said questioning it 'is like challenging someone's faith in God.'
Two years ago, Gorillaz and Blur frontman Damon Albarn scoffed to the LA Times that the pop star 'doesn't write her own songs.'
Outraged, Jack took to Twitter to call the 55-year-old Englishman an 'herb' and wrote: 'I've never met Damon Albarn and he's never been to my studio but apparently he knows more
