Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero” is just a couple of months shy of being one year old, and it remains one of the biggest songs of the moment. The single off of Midnights became Swift’s longest-running No. 1 song and remains high up on Billboard’s Hot 100 to this day. Taylor Swift wrote and produced the song with her frequent collaborator, Jack Antonoff, who recently broke down how the catchy hit about self-loathing came to be in the studio.
Jack Antonoff has been making huge hits with Taylor Swift since her 1989 album and served as a producer on every track of 2022’s Midnights album. While speaking to Time about his career, he shared the behind-the-scenes story about how “Anti-Hero” started. In his words:
