Taylor Swift’s collaborator Jack Antonoff abruptly shuts down interview after being asked about her upcoming album: ‘I don’t talk about that’

Jack Antonoff shut down an interview after being asked if he was collaborating on pal Taylor Swift‘s upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department.

The songwriter and record producer, 39, who’s frequently worked with the Bad Blood hitmaker, 34, in the past, hung up on a Dutch news outlet NRC after being questioned about the project, as per Page Six.

‘You know I don’t talk about that. If you’re looking for clickbait, you’ve come to the wrong place. Thank you for this conversation,’ he said, before ending the interview.

Earlier in the conversation Antonoff — who recently slammed Swift’s nemesis Kanye West — mentioned Swift as he compared his latest project Bleachers with the music he has produced for Swift as well as songbird Lana Del Rey, 38.

‘I don’t see it as producing. I create music with my friends. It comes as it comes. I’m not the kind of producer who likes to give commands from behind a mixing console.’

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Jack Antonoff shut down an interview after being asked if he was collaborating on pal Taylor Swift’s upcoming album, The Tortured Poets Department; he is seen in March in NYC

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The record producer, 39, who’s frequently worked with Swift, 34, in the past, hung up on a Dutch news outlet NRC after being questioned about the project; the two seen in 2024

‘I concern myself with the music itself; the way in which you can manage the creative process,’ he explained.

‘Success is a strange phenomenon. It distracts attention from the ordinary mechanisms that lead to good pop music,’ he added.

‘Being able to listen to each other well is one thing. The artists I work with trust that I can help them make their music better.’

Tortured Poets Department is Swift’s 11th studio album scheduled to be released on April 19.

Swift shocked fans when she announced her new album while accepting a 2024 Grammy in February for best pop vocal album for Midnights, which Antonoff co-produced. He also co-wrote 12 of the 13 songs on the LP.

It’s not the first time Antonoff has proved to be a fiercely loyal friend to Swift, after he defended her songwriting abilities and said questioning it ‘is like challenging someone’s faith in God.’

Two years ago, Gorillaz and Blur frontman Damon Albarn scoffed to the LA Times that the pop star ‘doesn’t write her own songs.’

Outraged, Jack took to Twitter to call the 55-year-old Englishman an ‘herb’ and wrote: ‘I’ve never met Damon Albarn and he’s never been to my studio but apparently he knows more than the rest of us about all those songs Taylor writes and brings in.’

Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff excitedly thank their fans

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‘You know I don’t talk about that. If you’re looking for clickbait, you’ve come to the wrong place. Thank you for this conversation,’ he said, before ending the interview; seen in 2021

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Earlier in the conversation Antonoff mentioned Swift as he compared his latest project Bleachers with the music he has produced for Swift as well as songbird Lana Del Rey, 38

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‘I don’t see it as producing. I create music with my friends. It comes as it comes. I’m not the kind of producer who likes to give commands from behind a mixing console’

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Antonoff and Swift’s collaboration began sometime in 2013. Jack went on to write and produce songs on her albums 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Fearless (Taylor’s Version), Red (Taylor’s Version), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), 1989 (Taylor’s Version), and Midnights

Stars attend Margaret Qualley and Jack Antonoff’s wedding party

‘I’m a little b**** sometimes,’ Antonoff told the LA Times last month about the Tweet.

‘But you come after my friend Taylor, you’re toast to me. [That] is like challenging someone’s faith in God. You just don’t go there.’

Damon decided to ‘apologize unreservedly and unconditionally’ after Taylor tweeted: ‘I was such a big fan of yours until I saw this. I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really f***ed up to try and discredit my writing. WOW.’

Last month Jack also slammed Kanye West and said he needs ‘his diaper changed’ amid the ongoing feud between the controversial musician and Taylor.

Kanye has feuded with Taylor ever since he crashed the pop idol’s acceptance speech at the 2009 VMAs when she won the best female video prize for You Belong With Me.

At the time Kanye barged onto the stage and interrupted her acceptance speech, saying Beyonce deserved the award.

In recent weeks, Kanye, 46, has claimed he has actually been ‘been far more helpful to Taylor’s career than harmful’, and denied claims that she got him kicked out of the Super Bowl when he tried to ‘upstage’ her.

But hitting back at the rapper’s continued tirade, producer Jack said he ‘just needs his diaper changed so badly’.

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Tortured Poets Department is Swift’s 11th studio album scheduled to be released on April 19

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Swift shocked fans when she announced her new album while accepting a 2024 Grammy in February for best pop vocal album for Midnights, which Antonoff co-produced

Lana Del Rey and Jack Antonoff perform together at festival

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Antonoff and Swift’s collaboration began sometime in 2013.

Jack went on to write and produce songs on the blonde billionaire’s albums 1989, Reputation, Lover, Folklore, Fearless (Taylor’s Version), Red (Taylor’s Version), Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), 1989 (Taylor’s Version), and Midnights.

The New Jersey native – who wed Margaret Qualley on August 19 – produced the modern cover songs for Todd A. Kessler’s dismally-reviewed 10-episode Christian Dior biopic The New Look, which airs Wednesdays on Apple TV+.

Jack’s band The Bleachers released their self-titled fourth studio album on March 8.