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Bleachers' Jack Antonoff on working with Taylor Swift: 'Her writing brilliance freaks people out'

“I think when something is so brilliant, it freaks people out,” says 39-year-old Jack Antonoff, pondering what exactly makes his collaborator Taylor Swift’s songwriting so unique – and why some people are so eager to be sceptical of it.

“I've seen this in lots of different areas where people are really, really hoping to prove something wrong, or prove something [is] hypocritical. It's definitely the worst of us.”

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