{"id":645644,"date":"2026-05-02T21:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645644\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T21:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:22:16","slug":"its-basically-like-stream-of-consciousness-endless-pouring-out-of-emotion-intrusive-thoughts-blended-with-metaphor-with-discussion-with-shouting-taylor-swift-explains-the-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/645644\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cIt’s basically like, stream of consciousness, endless pouring out of emotion, intrusive thoughts, blended with metaphor, with discussion, with shouting\u201d: Taylor Swift explains the songwriting trick that she and Jack Antonoff have used multiple times"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the calling cards of the Taylor Swift\/Jack Antonoff songwriting partnership has been something that we now know they like to call the \u2018rant bridge\u2019.<\/p>\n

Describing the concept in an interview with Howard Stern<\/a>, Antonoff says: \u201cYou spend a whole song verse and chorus, you know, being super poetic and dancing around something and giving details and holding some back and, you know, creating a lot of mystery, and then you get to this bridge and you just crash the fuck out and you just, you know, at that point you’ve earned it.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo it’s almost like you can be so free\u2026 It’s something that I feel is kind of one of our very special things that happens when we’re in a room together. We kind of egg each other on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, Swift has also been speaking about her songwriting process this week, in an interview with The New York Times<\/a>, and she too touched on the rant bridge trick.<\/p>\n

After calling Antonoff \u201cone of my best friends,\u201d she said: \u201cWe established this thing that we love to do, and we call it the rant bridge. I could point to examples \u2013 Out Of The Woods, Is It Over Now, Cruel Summer \u2013 and oftentimes we love these rant bridges, where it’s basically like, stream of consciousness, endless, pouring out of emotion, intrusive thoughts, blended with metaphor, with discussion, with shouting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Swift also suggests that this device serves a far greater purpose than simply to provide a bit of variation. \u201cYou want this rant bridge to feel the most intense of what that feeling is that you’re trying to establish over the course of the song, and you want it to kind of be a crescendo,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

In fact, so powerful are these rant bridges, says Swift, that she and Antonoff often use them multiple times in a song, sometimes using the chorus chords underneath on the second go round.<\/p>\n

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Although certain eyebrows were raised when it was revealed that Antonoff wasn\u2019t involved on Swift\u2019s latest album, 2025\u2019s The Life Of A Showgirl<\/a>, it seems almost inconceivable that they won\u2019t work together again, but even if they don\u2019t, it seems like their relationship will be just fine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe friendship is very deep,\u201d says Antonoff. \u201cYou live an amazing artistic life together in that room, and then it lives on. It’s extremely powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the calling cards of the Taylor Swift\/Jack Antonoff songwriting partnership has been something that we now…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-645644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}