Jack Antonoff Named Songwriter of the Year

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Jack Antonoff has been named ASCAP’s “Songwriter of the Year.”

Antonoff was recognized for his co-writes on songs like Sabrina Carpenter’s smash hit “Please Please Please,” as well as for his work on Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero,” “Fortnight,” “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” “Is It Over Now? (Taylor’s Version) (From the Vault)” and “Karma.” One of the most prolific songwriter-producers in the industry, last year he produced Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, as well as several tracks on Kendrick Lamar’s GNX and Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet.

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“You have to live life to write songs about your life,” says Armstrong. “I do like to take my time with the lyrics to make sure that they project the way I feel, internalize what’s going on in my own life and what’s going on in the culture. So that’s important. We live in such a crazy world. Now, everything is wide open. So I think it was at a pace of every four years, but now it’s like you put out a song or an EP, an LP, whatever it is, and with streaming there are no rules.”

April has come and gone. It was another month where I kept at this whole jogging thing and set a new PR in the mile and 5K. More records were listened to. Mark’s book was great. The cats did cat things.

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