Overview
- Swift and Antonoff addressed the rumors Tuesday in separate interviews, with Swift speaking to The New York Times Magazine and Antonoff answering on The Howard Stern Show.
- Swift reaffirmed their decade-long partnership and called Antonoff a collaborator and one of her best friends.
- Antonoff said he was not bothered by his absence from Swift’s 2025 album The Life of a Showgirl and said artists often seek different creative partners.
- Speculation grew because Antonoff was not credited on Showgirl, which Swift made with longtime hitmakers Max Martin and Shellback.
- Both described their shared “rant bridge” technique, a cathartic, stream‑of‑consciousness bridge heard in songs like Out of the Woods, Cruel Summer, and Is It Over Now.