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Taylor Swift at the 2024 VMAs Taylor Swift has ruled out rumours of a feud between herself and former collaborator Jack Antonoff . In recent history, Taylor and Jack have worked together on almost all of the Shake It Off singer’s albums, beginning with the 2014 album 1989 up until The Tortured Poets Department a decade later . However, when the Grammy winner unveiled her most recent release The Life Of A Showgirl , Jack’s name was noticeably absent from her list of collaborators. This led some fans to ponder whether there’d been some class of falling out between the pair, fuelled even further when his wife Margaret Qualley appeared not to even know that a new Taylor Swift album had been announced . However, during a new interview with the New York Times to discuss her songwriting, Taylor took a moment to celebrate Jack, letting everyone know that they’re still very much in one another’s lives in the process. Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff at the 2021 Grammys “Jack Antonoff is a collaborator of mine and one of my best friends,” she enthused, before going on to describe a songwriting trope they invented together known as the “rant bridge”, as evidenced in songs like Out Of The Woods, Getaway Car and Cruel Summer. “[A rant bridge is] basically a stream of consciousness, endless pouring-out of emotion [and] intrusive thoughts, blended with metaphor, with discussion, with shouting,” she explained. “You want this rant bridge to feel the most intense of what that feeling is that you’re trying to establish over the course of the song, and you want it to be kind of a crescendo.” Last year, Jack was asked by the US broadcaster Howard Stern whether he had any hard feelings about not being involved in The Life Of A Showgirl. “It’s really weird and it sounds kind of corny, but I only feel grateful for the work that’s happened,” the former Fun. musician insisted. “And maybe it’s because I write my own songs and sing them that I understand that need to have different collaborators and jump around.” He added: “I don’t think it’s normal to have the same collaborators over and over. And when I’ve had it with people, I think it’s a weird miracle. That’s it.” pic.twitter.com/MidWq50E3m — TSE Media (@TSEditsMedia) April 29, 2026 As well as his work with Fun. and Bleachers, Jack has become known for producing songs for the likes of Lorde , Lana Del Rey , The 1975 , Kendrick Lamar and, more recently, Sabrina Carpenter , Gracie Abrams and Doja Cat . The Life Of A Showgirl gave Taylor two UK number ones in The Fate Of Ophelia and Opalite , but also earned some of the more lukewarm reviews of her recent career . READ MORE: Lena Dunham Admits To Cheating On Jack Antonoff During Their Relationship Graham Norton 'Nicked' (And Then Almost Lost) Pivotal Prop From Taylor Swift Video Taylor Swift Gives Blunt Response To Critics Who Wish She Would ‘Just Go Away’
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