Look for the A+ list singer to quietly stab the music producer in the back

Look for the A+ list singer to quietly stab the music producer in the back prior to her next original album.

She knows how to read the room.

Taylor Swift

Jack Antonoff

The Taylor Swift–Jack Antonoff Conundrum

The producer has been one of Taylor’s most trusted collaborators in recent years, but after ‘Midnights,’ is it time for her to move on? Nora Princiotti and Nathan Hubbard discuss as part of their review on ‘Every Single Album.’

Nathan Hubbard: It’s really easy to say that Jack Antonoff is her most important collaborator, isn’t it?

Nora Princiotti: Yeah, I think we should each identify our runner-up for her most important collaborator who’s not Jack, but let’s give Jack a performance review here first. What do you think?

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Princiotti: I’m with you there, and this is a good thing to kind of go out on. I don’t think that there’s really ever going to be an end to them being collaborators in some way. But in terms of him being the featured sound of an album, this is a Jack Antonoff–ass sounding album. The drums are incessant. It is incredibly heavy-handed. You’ve got the oohs and aahs all over the place. The nice stuff on “Bejeweled,” which also has all those sparkle shimmer sounds.

I think we talked about this on another pod when we were talking about Jack at some point. There’s that Coco Chanel quote about dressing before you leave the house: Take one thing off. Jack’s production style is the antithesis of that. It’s just like, “Let’s add people clapping at midnight in ‘Question …?’” You just keep putting stuff in, and here’s more drums, and here it is. I think it helps this album feel very sonically consistent. I love the overall aesthetic of Midnights. I am with you for a lot of reasons, but to use a Nathanism: They’ve reached the end of the forest together and are already going back and making references to past stuff.

I don’t know, we’re already kind of OD’ing on Jack Antonoff. You can’t go any Jackier, so I think she will go somewhere else.

Hubbard: So, if not Jack, because that’s the obvious one …

Princiotti: So Sounwave, a.k.a. Mark Spears, gets production and writing credits for “Lavender Haze,” “Karma,” and “Glitch.” And on an album that has a lot of backward-looking moments, or we can pinpoint where it’s derivative, all of those songs are very fresh to me. They do something very different. And I think the album is not as high quality if it doesn’t have that freshness on those songs. – Source