Jack Antonoff shares cute pic of Taylor Swift trying on his signature lenses: 'TTPD Forever'
It's safe to say Jack Antonoff adores Taylor Swift.
Shortly after the pop star released her 11th studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department" on April 19, Antonoff took to Instagram to share some cute behind-the-scenes pics of Swift making the album.
In the last slide, he posted a photo of Swift wearing his signature glasses.
He penned the caption, “TTPD is here. My favorite work we have made together / made in the most wild unhinged moment. all the pain distilled in this album and all the laughter that came out of it. will hold those days in the studio forever as the most inspiring of my life. i adore this album and the way it came together. ttpd FOREVER.”
The record producer, who also serves as the lead singer of the rock band Bleachers, has worked with Swift on many songs throughout her career, including her 2022 album, "Midnights," which won album of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards in September. They've also been friends for nearly a decade.
Antonoff spoke with Willie Geist on Sunday Sitdown last year about his working relationship and friendship with Swift.
Antonoff and Swift famously worked together on her 2017 bop “Getaway Car,” which was featured in her sixth studio album, “Reputation.”
In Swift’s Netflix film “Miss Americana,” she showed how she and Antonoff came up with the bridge of the song.
While mulling over some lyrics in the studio, Swift suddenly had a lightbulb moment when Antonoff suggested some lyrics that could work.
Once fans saw the moment in the film, they started sharing it on social media, causing it to go viral.
“That video is popular for the perfect reason,” Antonoff told Geist. “That is the only time in my life, from the million hours I’ve spent in studios that a camera was ever on ... when magic actually happened.”
“And she just had her iPhone on for whatever reason. And I think that’s why that video became so popular because it was real,” Antonoff explained.
He said that while he's had many experiences with the "crazy kinetic energy" that can occur when writing a song on the fly, it's "never" been captured on camera before.
“It was just a real moment, and I don’t know why her phone was on, but thank God it was,” he said.
As to the secret behind that "magic"? Antonoff said part of their collaborative songwriting success comes from time.
"I could quantify our relationship in very reductive ways about the things we agree on, the sounds we like, but the truth is we've just grown together," he said in the preview clip.
"I mean, she's put an amazing amount of belief in me, and it's powerful," he said.
He shared that while he already loved what he was doing in the music industry, it was Swift who told him, "You can produce this."
"And that relationship has gone on and on and on," he said.
Here's a look back at the friendship between Swift and Antonoff.
Swift asks Antonoff to produce one of her songs
Antonoff previously said that Swift was the first artist to trust him to produce a song.
"If you're a songwriter, you write songs, and that doesn't matter if people like them or not," Antonoff said in 2021 on “The Plug With Neil Griffiths” podcast. "... But if you're a producer, you kind of need someone to let you into the room."
He explained that working with Swift became "the thing that people needed to see on the resume." After, when he said he could produce a work, he said responses changed from "Who are you?" to "Sure!"
Antonoff and Swift's first collaboration occurred in 2013 when they co-wrote and produced the song "Sweeter Than Fiction" for the soundtrack of the British film "One Chance."
Antonoff helps write and produce Swift's '1989' album
Swift tapped Antonoff again to co-write and co-produce several songs on her album "1989," which was released on Oct. 27, 2014. (Her "Taylor's Version" re-recording of the album dropped exactly nine years later, on Oct. 27, 2023.)
The original album won best pop vocal album and album of the year at the 2016 Grammy Awards.
The following day, Antonoff shared a candid photo on Instagram that showed Swift hugging him at the ceremony.
"My favorite pic from last night. we wrote and worked on 1989 in the tiniest spaces. a lot of time over voice notes and e mail --- it really encourages me that those small dream like ideas between friends can become album of the year. winning a grammy for records you make the same way you did when u were a kid is important to me," he wrote.
December 2014: Antonoff calls Swift his 'favorite collaborator'
In December 2014, in a birthday post honoring Swift on Instagram, Antonoff called the Grammy winner his "favorite collaborator."
"Happy birthday to @taylorswift — an amazing friend and my favorite collaborator. stayed out later than I thought my body could ever handle. it was THAT good a night. ps hope you like the tom waits records....," the musician wrote alongside pics of the pair celebrating with friends.
May 2015: Swift reveals she wrote a song inspired by Antonoff's relationship
In 2015, Swift revealed in a cover story with Elle that she wrote her song “You Are in Love,” featured on her "1989" album, about Antonoff’s relationship at the time with "Girls" creator and star Lena Dunham.
After the interview cited the line, "You are my best friend," from the song, Swift responded, "Yeah. I’ve never had that, so I wrote that song about things that Lena (Dunham) has told me about her and Jack (Antonoff). That’s just basically stuff she’s told me."
2017 - 2022: Swift taps Antonoff to co-write and produce every album from 'Reputation' to 'Midnights'
After the success of "1989," Swift continued collaborating with Antonoff.
The former Fun guitarist co-wrote and produced Swift's subsequent albums "Reputation," "Lover," "Folklore," "Evermore" and "Midnights."
He has also helped Swift re-record all of her "Taylor's Version" albums so far, producing most of the "From the Vault" tracks that weren't featured on the original albums.
May 2017: Swift says working with Antonoff is 'an absolute joy'
In 2017, Swift gushed about working with Antonoff to the New York Times.
“Sometimes he sits at the piano and we both just start ad-libbing and the song seems to create itself,” she said of the producer.
“His excitement and exuberance about writing songs is contagious. He’s an absolute joy. That’s why everyone loves him. I personally wouldn’t trust someone who didn’t.”
May 2023: Antonoff joins Swift onstage during 'The Eras Tour'
A decade after their first collaboration, Antonoff joined Swift onstage May 26 during her New Jersey stop on "The Eras Tour" for an acoustic performance of "Getaway Car," which the pair co-wrote together.
August 2023: Swift attends Antonoff's wedding
Swift notably attended Antonoff's August 2023 wedding to actor Margaret Qualley, who is the daughter of Andie MacDowell.
Other celebrity guests at the New Jersey wedding included Lana Del Ray, Channing Tatum and Zoë Kravitz.
September 2023: Swift gives Antonoff a shout-out at the MTV VMAs
At the 2023 MTV VMAs, Swift took home the award for song of the year for her song "Anti-Hero."
During her acceptance speech, she gave Antonoff a little shout-out and said, "I'm really really lucky that I get to write songs with one of my best friends in the world, his name is Jack Antonoff. He is so talented, it's incomprehensible and I’m so lucky I’ve been making music with him since we worked on an album called '1989.' We’ll continue working together til’ 2089.”
February 2024: Antonoff thanks Swift at the Grammys
At the 2024 Grammys, Antonoff won the award for producer of the year. In his acceptance speech, he thanked Swift for changing his career.
“Taylor Swift kicked that f------ door open for me,” he said.
Antonoff added that even though he received great reviews from people early in his career, he said they would still seek out a “big name” producer to help them create songs. It wasn't until Swift entrusted him to produce her "1989" smash hit “Out of the Woods” that everything changed for him.
“I love you to death, Taylor,” he said, raising his award in the air.
April 2024: Antonoff shares behind the scenes pics of Swift making her 'Tortured Poets Department' album
On Friday, April 19, Swift released her highly-anticipated 11th studio album, "The Tortured Poets Department."
In honor of her new body of work, Antonoff took to Instagram to share some behind the scenes pics of Swift making the album, and in the last slide, he posted a picture of Swift trying on his signature glasses.
He penned the caption, "TTPD is here. My favorite work we have made together / made in the most wild unhinged moment. all the pain distilled in this album and all the laughter that came out of it. will hold those days in the studio forever as the most inspiring of my life. i adore this album and the way it came together. ttpd FOREVER."
This article was originally published on TODAY.com
