Taylor Swift’s Go-to Collaborator Speaks on Helping Shape Lana Del Rey’s Next Project

When Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey attended the 2024 Grammys collectively, it led all popular culture fanatics to dig into their historical past to determine how the 2 songstresses linked and what introduced them collectively. Nonetheless, each pop stars have been shut pals for the previous few years and have been additionally noticed collectively regularly as of late. They’ve even collaborated on songs like ‘Snow on the Seashore’. But, there has all the time been a typical thread linking them, somebody who additionally deserves the credit score for bringing this friendship to life within the first place.

This frequent thread, additionally Taylor Swift’s longtime collaborator, has as soon as once more taken on considered one of Lana Del Rey’s music tasks. 

Taylor Swift’s collaborator confirms working with Lana Del Rey

Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey grew to become pals by means of their mutual reference to Jack Antonoff. Antonoff was engaged on each Swift’s ‘Midnights’ and Rey’s ‘Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Beneath Ocean Blvd’ on the similar time, which received the women spending extra time collectively. Not too long ago, in an interview with Time, Antonoff revealed that he has been working with Rey on her upcoming album, ‘Lasso’ too.

Antonoff, nonetheless, is holding again on sharing an excessive amount of in regards to the undertaking earlier than it drops as a result of he needs “the music be the primary entry level for folks.” The Bleachers frontman has collaborated with Swift since 2014 when he produced some tracks on her album ‘1989’, and with Del Rey since 2018 on ‘Norman ***ing Rockwell!’. Final yr, Antonoff talked about how he invested within the friendship between these powerhouses.

Antonoff expressed pleasure in serving to Swift and the newly married songstress kind a heartfelt bond after working with them individually.

Jack Antonoff performed matchmaker for Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey

Taylor Swift and Lana Del Rey first ran into one another on the MTV EMAs in 2012, however they didn’t actually grow to be shut pals till not too long ago. Throughout a December 2023 chat on Late Evening With Seth Meyers, Jack Antonoff mentioned, “I’m actually pleased with these two.” He talked about how the pop stars have been working collectively for some time now and have discovered a groove the place issues preserve getting “loonier and loonier”. 

Antonoff shared, “An enormous theme is, like, investing in lengthy relationships. It makes me really feel candy.” He additionally instructed Zane Lowe as soon as that there’s “magic” that also catches him abruptly when working with the 2 pop queens. “I really feel that approach with Taylor, I really feel that approach with Lana, I really feel that with my band,” the music producer added. With ‘Lasso’ on the way in which, followers will hopefully get to see much more of that collaborative “magic.”

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