Breaking: Jack Antonoff credits Taylor Swift for starting his production career: “I was sort of shocked….Read More

The Bleachers mastermind was awarded ‘Producer Of The Decade’ by Variety

Jack Antonoff has credited Taylor Swift for starting his production career, saying he “was sort of shocked” during their first collaboration together.

In an interview with Variety, published yesterday (December 5), Antonoff talked about how his career as a producer first began. Antonoff was awarded ‘Producer Of The Decade’ by the publication.

“I actually would say she’s the first person who allowed me to produce, really, because I was already doing it,” Antonoff told Variety.

While the former fun. member and Bleachers leader had already racked up credits by then, working with Carly Rae Jepsen, Sara Bareilles, Tegan And Sara, and Panic! At The Disco, Swift was his highest-profile collaborator yet. They first worked together on her 2013 single ‘Sweeter Than Fiction’.

The way my early collaboration with her came along was, I was making tracks, and she would write all the lyrics and melodies, then we’d get together and record it — it wasn’t that deep,” he continued. “And when it reached the point where, in the past, someone said ‘now we’ll hand it off to so-and-so producer,’ she just said, ‘It’s done’”.

“I was sort of shocked — and thrilled! I think that’s part of the reason why we’ve had such an incredibly long and beautiful collaboration.” Antonoff would go on to produce tracks on all Swift albums beginning from 2014’s ‘1989’