Jack Antonoff has redefined pop music. Here's how

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Jack Antonoff's fingerprints are everywhere.

In the last year alone, he's made records with Lana Del Rey, Lorde, St Vincent, The Chicks, and Taylor Swift - with whom he shared the Grammy award for album of the year.

Unassuming and earnest, he's become the go-to collaborator for pop's most sophisticated female stars, co-writing and producing records like Swift's Folklore, St Vincent's Masseduction and Del Rey's spectral masterpiece Norman [Expletive] Rockwell.

"Why are they drawn to working with me? I don't know," he says. "I feel like that's a question for them."

So we checked. "He's a wonderful person. He's a joy to work with," is the simple response from Annie Clark, aka St Vincent.

"Jack very much takes my lead," Del Rey told the NME last year. "I don't know how it is with him with other people, but he liked for me to know where I was going."

Antonoff has a reputation for generosity and empathy. His laid-back studio demeanour is entirely free of the sexist power games that often sour the relations between male producers and female artists.

The 37-year-old consistently describes his collaborators as friends - even when it's rock icon Bruce Springsteen.

"We were just hanging out," Antonoff says of how Springsteen ended up singing on Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night, the third album by his own band, Bleachers. "The friendship led to the collaboration."

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