Jack Antonoff hits back at critics who question Taylor Swift’s songwriting

nme.com:

Jack Antonoff has hit back at the critics who have questioned Taylor Swift‘s songwriting ability.The producer and Bleachers frontman has worked on every Swift album since her huge 2014 record ‘1989’, and once again teamed up with the pop star on her new LP ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ (out April 19).That’s according to the Los Angeles Times, which asked Antonoff about his reaction to Damon Albarn’s incorrect past claim that Swift doesn’t write her own songs.

In response to the remark (itself coming from an LA Times interview), the producer said at the time: “If you were there…cool…go off.

If not…maybe…shut the fuck up?”Antonoff later called Albarn’s controversial comment “completely absurd”, explaining: “You’re talking about one of the greatest songwriters of our generation who has her name as the only name on many songs.

You don’t need me to explain it – it’s fact.”He added: “I don’t like it when artists take almost this Trumpian approach of just making things up.”When the LA Times reminded Antonoff of the spat in their latest conversation with the producer, he said: “I’m a little bitch sometimes.