Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff proved they’re nonetheless our favourite pair of besties whereas attending the 2024 Grammy Awards.
Swift, 34, gave off main little sister vibes whereas joking round with Antonoff, 39, throughout the Sunday, February 4, awards present on the Crypto.com enviornment. Whereas host Trevor Noah gave Antonoff a particular shout-out for his Producer of the Yr win, Swift congratulated her longtime collaborator by nudging him and pretending to mess up his hair.
Antonoff and Swift sat on the identical desk as Lana Del Rey, who collaborated with Swift on her Grammy-winning album Midnights. Swift attended the ceremony in a white Schiaparelli Couture robe, whereas Antonoff saved issues stylish in an aesthetic black tux and white gown shirt.
Swift was up for six Grammys this yr, together with Album of the Yr and Greatest Pop Vocal Album for Midnights. Her first single from the 2022 album, “Anti-Hero,” earned nods for Document of the Yr, Track of the Yr and Greatest Pop Solo Efficiency and her “Karma” collaboration with Ice Spice can also be up for Greatest Pop Duo/Group Efficiency.
Earlier within the night time, Swift took house her thirteenth Grammys win for Greatest Pop Vocal Album. Whereas accepting the award on stage, she made headlines by asserting her upcoming eleventh studio album, titled The Tortured Poets Division.
Swift additionally took house the win for Album of the Yr, making her the primary artist to obtain the award 4 instances after beforehand profitable in 2008, 2016, and 2021 for Fearless, 1989 and Folklore, respectively. She additionally made historical past by receiving the nomination for Track of the Yr for the seventh time. Swift additionally thanked Antonoff, who joined her on stage, in her acceptance speech
“Type of a loopy day yesterday,” Swift instructed the group throughout a November 2023 Eras Tour live performance after studying of her nominations. “I began off my morning by getting the extraordinary information that due to you and due to the way in which you could have supported my album Midnights, it simply bought nominated for six Grammys!”
Swift has been working with Antonoff since 2014 when she requested the producer to collaborate along with her on just a few tracks off her first main pop album, 1989. They’ve since teamed up for 2017’s Popularity, 2019’s Lover, 2020’s Folklore and Evermore and once more for 2022’s Midnights. (Since 1989, Antonoff has accompanied Swift to each Grammy awards present, and the pair can usually be seen doing their signature secret handshake on stage.)
Antonoff has additionally been a significant a part of Swift rerecording her first six studio albums, a undertaking she introduced in 2019 after Scooter Braun purchased her former label, Massive Machine Data, and bought her masters.
“I’ve seen her change the music trade firsthand,” Antonoff stated of Swift whereas talking to NME in July 2021. “She’s wonderful for being a champion, and making issues higher for the generations to come back. She has a protracted historical past of rightly exposing some actual darkness within the music trade. And I’m personally grateful for it, outdoors of our friendship and dealing relationship, simply as an artist. She’s requested me some questions lots of people are afraid to ask.”
Two years later, he praised Swift for being the primary one that “acknowledged” him as a producer throughout an episode of TIME’s “Individual of the Week” podcast. “Lots of people are afraid to log out on one thing that isn’t achieved by a confirmed particular person,” he stated. “I had written a lot of songs and produced them, however they might all the time form of go some other place. So the label or whoever may say, oh, we had this particular person produce it. And, you realize, I put my coronary heart and soul into that music and he or she stated, ‘I find it irresistible.’”
Swift, for her half, has usually taken to social media to gush over her friendship with the Bleachers frontman. Following the discharge of Midnights, Swift penned a heartfelt put up in tribute to her collaborators on the report, significantly Antonoff.
“Midnights is a wild trip of an album and I couldn’t be happier that my co pilot on this journey was @jackantonoff,” she captioned a sequence of Instagram pictures of the twosome. “He’s my pal for all times (presumptuous I do know however I stand by it) and we’ve been making music collectively for practically a decade HOWEVER… that is our first album we’ve achieved with simply the 2 of us as predominant collaborators.”
Antonoff additionally commemorated the album launch by way of his personal Instagram, reflecting on their decade of friendship, writing, “From 1989 to right here. so glad we met all these years in the past and talked about solely you by yaz. the primary album we’ve made fully collectively. love you Taylor.”