Taylor Swift album: Jack Antonoff abruptly ends interview when asked about Tortured Poets Department

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Jack Antonoff abruptly ended an interview with a Dutch information outlet when asked about the brand new album of his pal and frequent collaborator Taylor Swift.

The 39-year-old musician and producer reportedly hung up on a reporter from NRC after being asked about his involvement with Swift’s upcoming eleventh studio album, The Tortured Poets Department.

“You know I don’t talk about that,” he informed the information outlet.

“If you’re looking for clickbait, you’ve come to the wrong place. Thank you for this conversation.”

But he did communicate about working with Swift earlier within the interview, and the way his work with Bleachers differed from his producing for Swift or Lana Del Rey.

He mentioned, “I don’t see it as producing. I create music with my friends. It comes as it comes. I’m not the kind of producer to bark commands from behind a mixing board. I involve myself in the music itself; the way you can steer the creative process … Being able to listen to each other well is one thing. The artists I work with trust that I can help them make their music better.”

In an interview with the Los Angeles Times printed final month he confirmed that he has “completed” work on The Tortured Poets Department, however didn’t expose extra particulars.

Swift is well-known for leaving Easter eggs in her promotional materials, social media, music movies, music lyrics, tour visuals, and even the garments she wears. So whereas followers have to attend until the album launch to listen to the brand new music and which route she goes this time, Swifties have had loads to do, creating their very own theories and searching for Easter eggs within the cowl artwork and tracklist.

Antonoff and Swift have been collaborators for a very long time, since they first labored collectively on her album 1989 in 2014. They continued to work collectively on her subsequent 5 albums – Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, and Midnights – in addition to the re-recordings of her first 4 albums, Fearless (Taylor’s Version), Red (Taylor’s Version), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), and 1989 (Taylor’s Version).

Swift introduced The Tortured Poets Department on the 2024 Grammy awards the place she took dwelling two awards for Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights. Along with the Album of the Year win, Antonoff additionally received the award for Producer of the Year, Non-Classical.

While receiving her award for her Best Pop Vocal Album, Swift introduced: “(The way I can celebrate) is by telling you a secret that I’ve been keeping from you for the past two years, which is that my brand new album comes out April 19th”.

“It’s called The Tortured Poets Department and I’m going to go post the cover right now backstage.”

TTPD, which will characteristic collabs with artists like Post Malone and Florence + the Machine, is scheduled to drop April 19.