Jack Antonoff Backs Swift’s 11-Album Run With New Producers
jack antonoff said he is fine with Taylor Swift working with other producers on The Life of a Showgirl, stepping in on Tuesday, Apr. 28 to cool speculation around the pair’s working relationship. He said he only feels gratitude for what they have made together, after 11 albums of collaboration that began in 2014.
Howard Stern on Apr. 28
Antonoff appeared on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show to plug Bleachers’ upcoming fifth studio album, Everyone For Ten Minutes, and used the interview to address why he was absent from Swift’s latest album. “I only feel grateful for the work that has happened,” he said, drawing a clean line between their past output and her decision to re-team with Max Martin and Shellback on Showgirl.
That matters because the absence of a familiar producer can trigger louder assumptions than the music itself. Antonoff pushed back on that logic directly: “Maybe it’s only because I write my own songs and sing them, but I understand that need to have different collaborators and jump around.”
Eleven albums since 2014
Antonoff said his association with Swift began on her 2014 1989 album and has stretched across 11 albums in total. He added, “I don’t think it’s normal to have the same collaborators over and over,” and, “And when I’ve had it with people, I think it’s a weird miracle.”
Swift has already described him as “a collaborator of mine and one of my best friends” and said they built a songwriting “rant bridge” together. Antonoff said that device helped shape songs such as “Cruel Summer,” which keeps their partnership visible even as she changes the lineup around her.
Swift, Martin and Shellback
Swift’s choice to work with Max Martin and Shellback on The Life of a Showgirl gives her another production lane without erasing the Antonoff catalog behind her recent run. For listeners, the practical takeaway is simple: the collaboration is not shutting down, but it is not locked into one fixed trio either.
Antonoff’s own phrasing leaves little room for a feud narrative. He framed the change as normal rotation in a long creative relationship, and the next signal to watch is not a comment thread but how Swift’s new album lands with Martin and Shellback back in the frame.
