Jack Antonoff talks working on ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’: “I would liken it to finding an old diary”

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Jack Antonoff has spoken about the process of working on Taylor Swift‘s latest re-recorded album, ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’.The Bleachers frontman, who was a producer on the original 2014 hit record, discussed various projects from his career during a new interview with Vulture.

At one point in the conversation, he recalled the “hardest part” of recreating his ‘1989’ songs.“I don’t work with any soft synths, so everything is a sound that’s made in the room.

The funny thing is you can’t recall the sounds. So all the Bleachers guys helped a ton on that stuff,” Antonoff explained.The outlet then noted how this was specifically on ‘Out Of The Woods’, ‘I Wish You Would’ and ‘You Are In Love’, which were the three tracks Antonoff originally produced for ‘1989’.He continued: “It became a really fun project for me and the band.

It was like, ‘All right, Mikey [Freedom Hart], here are the Juno tracks, do your best. Sean [Hutchinson], here’s the drum stuff, see what you can do’.“And then I’ll have X amount of tracks that are just sound from the room.