“In fact, I would say she was the first person who allowed me to produce, because I was already doing it.
The way my first collaboration with her came about was that I would make the tracks and she would write all the lyrics and melodies, then we would get together and record it; It wasn’t that deep.
And when it got to the point where, in the past, someone said, ‘Now we’ll hand it over to this or that producer,’ she just said, ‘It’s done.’ I was shocked, and excited! “I think that’s part of the reason we’ve had such an incredibly long and beautiful duo.”
Jack Antonoff credited his longtime collaborator Taylor Swift for helping launch his career as one of the most accomplished producers of his generation, recalling in an interview that Swift’s decision to give Antonoff more creative control rather than go to a bigger-name producer lead him down his path.
“I actually would say she’s the first person who allowed me to produce, really, because I was already doing it,” Antonoff told Variety, who named him the publication’s Producer of the Decade on Thursday. “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.
