Sabrina Carpenter and Jack Antonoff. Getty Photographs (2)
“Pop music hoarder” Jack Antonoff has simply added a brand new artist to his star-studded record of collaborators.
Sabrina Carpenter revealed in a June 2024 interview with Rolling Stone that a lot of her sixth album, Brief n’ Candy, was produced by Antonoff. The Bleachers frontman’s manufacturing fashion has acquired blended critiques via the years, particularly in terms of his work with Taylor Swift, a detailed good friend he shares with Carpenter.
“F–ok all of them,” Carpenter advised Rolling Stone of the critics. “F–ok all of them. I feel he’s some of the proficient individuals I’ve ever met.”
She continued, “When he’s in a room, he’s capable of actually contact each instrument within the room and make it sound magical. He additionally works very quick, which I actually respect as a result of I work very quick.”
Antonoff was equally as proud to work alongside Carpenter, who he described to the outlet as “one of many largest younger pop stars” on the rise.
“That tune is such a press release of expressing your self, not simply lyrically, however sonically,” he stated of her single “Please Please Please,” which dropped in June 2024. “I feel that the aesthetic of not giving a f–—ok or the aesthetic of telling it like it’s has change into so well-liked that there’s lots of people who pander to that idea fairly than are that idea. Sabrina really is.”
Antonoff has a military of A-list artists in his again pocket, and he fiercely defends these he’s labored with most frequently. He’s by no means shied away from calling out Swift’s haters — even on a public platform.
“You come for my good friend Taylor, you’re toast to me. [It’s] like difficult somebody’s religion in God. You simply don’t go there,” he advised the Los Angeles Instances in February 2024.
Scroll down for a have a look at Antonoff’s most high-profile collabs:
Taylor Swift
Maybe Antonoff’s finest recognized collaborations have been with Swift, who he first produced for in 2013. The twosome teamed up on the tune “Sweeter Than Fiction” earlier than Antonoff labored on Swift’s 2014 album, 1989. He’s since lent a hand on 2017’s Repute, 2019’s Lover, 2020’s Folklore and Evermore, 2022’s Midnights and 2024’s The Tortured Poets Division, together with a couple of of Swift’s rerecorded albums. Three of their collaborations earned Album of the Yr on the Grammy Awards: 1989, Folklore and Midnights.
Lana Del Rey
Antonoff joined forces with Del Rey for the primary time for her 2019 album, Norman F–king Rockwell! Main as much as the file’s launch, the pair carried out collectively at an Apple Music occasion within the fall of 2018, debuting the tune “The way to Disappear.” Norman F–king Rockwell! was nominated for Album of the Yr on the 2020 Grammy Awards.
The duo labored collectively once more on 2021’s Chemtrails Over the Nation Membership and 2023’s Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Beneath Ocean Blvd, the latter of which options Antonoff on the tune “Margaret,” impressed by his relationship with Margaret Qualley. Did You Know was additionally nominated for Album of the Yr on the 2024 Grammys.
Sabrina Carpenter
Antonoff is credited as the only real producer on Carpenter’s single “Please Please Please,” which dropped in June 2024. That very same month, Carpenter advised Rolling Stone that Antonoff produced roughly half of her album Brief n’ Candy and described how their collaboration started.
“I used to be peeing my pants as a result of I wished to work with him for my complete life,” she stated, recalling their introduction at an NYC comedy membership. “After that, we, fortunately sufficient, turned mates; personalities meshed, and it was solely a matter of time. He heard among the stuff that I used to be engaged on for this album, and we simply began to make magic.”
The 1975
Matty Healy‘s band labored with Antonoff on their 2022 album, Being Humorous in a International Language. (Followers who’ve adopted Healy’s saga with Swift will know Antonoff is name-dropped on the tune “The Tortured Poets Division,” which was seemingly written about her 2023 fling with Healy.)
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Carly Rae Jepsen
The 2012 tune “Sweetie” marked the primary time Jepsen and Antonoff labored collectively, and their friendship solely grew stronger thereafter. Antonoff produced songs on Jepsen’s albums Devoted and Devoted Aspect B. Jepsen additionally offered background vocals on the tune “Hate That You Know Me” from Bleachers’ 2017 file, Gone Now.
The Chicks
Antonoff produced the nation group’s 2020 comeback album, Gaslighter, which marked their first launch in 14 years.
“It’s overwhelming to attempt to describe the journey of creating this album, the methods it modified me eternally, the unimaginable love i’ve for the three of them and the world they’ve created and allowed me to be part of,” Antonoff gushed through Instagram on the day Gaslighter was launched, calling the band “a f–king pressure.”
Maren Morris
Following Morris’ departure from nation music, she set her sights on a collab with Antonoff, who helped produce her 2023 single “Get the Hell Out of Right here.”
“He’s superb,” she stated on Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen on the time. “We’ve been engaged on and off all 12 months. We’re working with different individuals, too, so I’m form of in writing mode.”
Kendrick Lamar
Antonoff labored with Lamar and fellow producer Sounwave on the 2024 tune “6:16 in LA,” a diss monitor launched in response to Drake‘s “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle.”
Sara Bareilles
Antonoff produced the 2013 songs “Courageous” and “Chasing the Solar” from Bareilles’ album The Blessed Unrest.
St. Vincent
Masseduction, which earned a Grammy nomination for Finest Various Music Album following its 2017 launch, marked the primary collaboration for Antonoff and Annie Clark. The title monitor received a Grammy for Finest Rock Music.
The twosome subsequently teamed up on 2021’s Daddy’s Dwelling, and St. Vincent has carried out at Antonoff’s annual Ally Coalition profit live performance in assist of unhoused LGBTQIA+ youth.
Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff stored their romance beneath the radar earlier than confirming their engagement in Could 2022. The twosome have been first linked in August 2021 following the Maid star’s temporary relationships with Pete Davidson and Shia LaBeouf. The Bleachers singer, for his half, beforehand dated Lena Dunham from 2012 to 2018. Thank You! You […]
Florence & The Machine
Antonoff was one of many main producers on Florence Welch‘s 2022 album, Dance Fever. Welch can also be featured on the tune “Florida!!!” from Swift’s TTPD, which had Antonoff on the helm.
Outdoors of the studio, Antonoff acquired recommendation from Welch about composing his first Broadway present, a contemporary adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. “She’s strolling me via it,” he advised TIME in April 2024, including that Welch, who labored on the music for Gatsby: An American Fable, is giving him “a whole lot of ideas.”
Lorde
Antonoff was a key collaborator on Lorde’s sophomore file, 2017’s Melodrama, which featured hits “Inexperienced Gentle,” “Excellent Locations,” “Supercut” and extra. They teamed up once more on 2021’s Photo voltaic Energy.
“I haven’t made a Jack Antonoff file,” Lorde advised The New York Instances following her third album’s launch, responding to critics of Antonoff’s manufacturing fashion. “I’ve made a Lorde file and he’s helped me make it and really a lot deferred to me on manufacturing and association. Jack would agree with this. To present him that quantity of credit score is frankly insulting.”
FKA Twigs
The acclaimed 2019 album Magdalene options one tune produced by Antonoff, “Holy Terrain” with Future. (Notably, FKA Twigs dated Healy earlier than he reconnected with Antonoff’s BFF Swift in 2023.)
