Jack Antonoff, Variety Hitmakers’ Producer of the Decade, on Getting Advice From Bruce Springsteen and Working With the ‘Incredibly Funny’ Sabrina Carpenter
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music With no shade to anyone, there really is no other choice for Variety’s Hitmakers Producer of the Decade than Jack Antonoff.
Yes, he’s won the Grammy producer of the year award for three consecutive trips around the sun, but that’s just one indication of his culture-shifting collaborations with Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, Kendrick Lamar, Lorde, St.
Vincent, Sara Bareilles, the 1975, the Chicks and more. And in a busy year that also saw Antonoff releasing the latest album from Bleachers (the band he’s fronted for a decade), he collaborated on three songs in this year’s Hitmakers Top 25, including Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please Please Please” — a song he and the singer co-wrote with Amy Allen.
He also co-produced Lamar’s latest album, “GNX,” and wrote the music for Sam Gold’s Broadway adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet,” including the single “Man of the House,” sung by Rachel Zegler.
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