Overview
- Swift, in a New York Times interview released Tuesday, called Antonoff a collaborator and one of her best friends.
- Antonoff told The Howard Stern Show on Tuesday that he was not bothered he did not work on The Life of a Showgirl and said artists often rotate collaborators.
- Both described their shared writing move, the “rant bridge,” as a burst of raw, fast-flowing emotion that peaks a song’s intensity.
- Examples Swift cited for that style included “Out of the Woods,” “Cruel Summer,” and “Is It Over Now,” which fans know for surging, confessional bridges.
- Speculation followed Antonoff’s absence from the 2025 album, which Swift made with Max Martin and Shellback, despite a decade of major projects together from 1989 to The Tortured Poets Department and her re-recordings.