--- title: Jack Antonoff Talks Writing Taylor Swift New Years Day description: The producer, who helped write many of the songs on 'Reputation,' recalls the surreal experience of writing Swift's popular new ballad. canonical: https://time.com/5023478/taylor-swift-jack-antonoff-new-years-day/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-11-14T18:28:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:48:47.068Z og:title: Jack Antonoff Talks Working on Taylor Swift's 'New Year's Day' og:description: "We texted the next morning to make sure it wasn't a dream." og:url: https://time.com/5023478/taylor-swift-jack-antonoff-new-years-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jack Antonoff Talks Working on Taylor Swift's 'New Year's Day' twitter:description: "We texted the next morning to make sure it wasn't a dream." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jack Antonoff Shares Insight Into the Making of Taylor Swift's 'New Year's Day' > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 14, 2017 6:28 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Nov 14, 2017 6:28 PM UTC Out of all the producers Taylor Swift teamed up with for her new album [_Reputation_](http://time.com/5021426/taylor-swift-reputation-tour/), one was the indie-pop favorite collaborator [Jack Antonoff](http://time.com/4917893/jack-antonoff-mtv-vmas-banana/). While Antonoff fronts his own band, Bleachers, he also is busy in the studio working with artists like [Lorde](http://time.com/4800802/jack-antonoff-gone-now-review/) and St. Vincent to bring their latest albums to life, too. After Swift performed one of her Antonoff-co-written songs on Monday night’s _Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_ to [an emotional reception](http://time.com/5023187/taylor-swift-fallon-new-years-day/), the producer took to Twitter to share a little bit of the back story of the piano-driven ballad [“New Year’s Day.” ](http://time.com/5017843/taylor-swift-new-years-day-reputation/) “Taylor doing New Year’s Day on Fallon was beautiful,” Antonoff wrote. “That song means a lot to me. Happened so quickly at my apartment. We texted the next morning to make sure it wasn’t a dream.” It’s the only ballad and the final track on the much-hyped album, detailing the decaying glitter of the day after a big party — and the tender nostalgia of everyday, through-thick-and-thin love. With specific references that paint a vivid, recognizable picture — “Girls carrying their shoes down in the lobby / Candle wax and Polaroids on the hardwood floor” — it might also be one of her most relatable tracks on _Reputation_. > [](https://twitter.com/jackantonoff/status/930321202941448192) > [](https://twitter.com/jackantonoff/status/930321605758156801) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5023478/taylor-swift-jack-antonoff-new-years-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5023478/taylor-swift-jack-antonoff-new-years-day/"},"headline":"Jack Antonoff Shares Insight Into the Making of Taylor Swift's 'New Year's Day'","datePublished":"2017-11-14T18:28:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:48:47.068Z","description":"\"We texted the next morning to make sure it wasn't a dream.\"","url":"https://time.com/5023478/taylor-swift-jack-antonoff-new-years-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Taylor Swift"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5023478/taylor-swift-jack-antonoff-new-years-day/","name":"Jack Antonoff Shares Insight Into the Making of Taylor Swift's 'New Year's Day'"}}]}] ```