Taylor Swift sets the record straight on Jack Antonoff friendship

Taylor Swift shut down feud rumors with music producer Jack Antonoff after he wasn’t involved in her latest “Life of a Showgirl” album.

“Jack Antonoff is a collaborator of mine and one of my best friends,” the Grammy winner told the New York Times in an interview released on April 28.

She also gushed over their working relationship, saying, “We established this thing that we love to do, and we call it the rant bridge.”

“It’s basically like stream of consciousness, endless pouring-out of emotion, intrusive thoughts, blended with metaphor, with discussion, with shouting,” Swift, 36, 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.”

The hitmaker named her 2014 track “Out of the Woods,” 2019 song “Cruel Summer” and 2023 hit “Is It Over Now” as a few examples of songs with rant bridges.

Antonoff and Swift have been collaborating since the latter’s 2013 track “Sweeter Than Fiction.”

The duo also co-produced and wrote Swift’s Grammy-winning “1989” album, which she released in 2014.

They went on to work on Swift’s “Reputation” (2017), “Lover” (2019), “Folklore” (2020), “Evermore” (2020) and “Midnights” (2022).

Antonoff, 42, was also front and center to help Swift re-record her studio albums after former music executive Scooter Braun acquired her masters in 2019. Swift re-purchased her masters in May 2025.

Additionally, Antonoff joined Swift onstage as a surprise guest for her Eras Tour stop in New Jersey in 2023 and helped her produce her 2024 studio album, “The Tortured Poets Department.

Swift, however, didn’t collaborate with him for her 2025 “Life of a Showgirl” album, which she previously hinted would be different from her past albums.

The “Opalite” singer turned to Max Martin and Shellback to help produce the album.

“The three of us have made some of my favorite songs that I’ve ever done before,” she shared on her fiancé Travis Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast last year. “They were my main collaborators on my ‘Red’ album … we’ve made songs that I’m so proud of … [and doing this] felt like catching lightning in a bottle, honestly.”

Swift gave several nods to Kelce in her 11th studio album, including “The Fate of Ophelia,” “Opalite,” “Eldest Daughter” and “Wood.”