A week and a half ago, Taylor Swift posted Midnights, a fairly discreet pop album that displays absolutely crazy numbers. In its first week, Midnights sold more copies than any other album in seven years. It also made Taylor Swift the first artist to hold the top 10 spots on the Billboard Hot 100 in a single week. At present, the No. 1 song in America is “Anti-Hero” – the track “everyone is a sexy baby” and the first Midnights song to get a video. Now Swift has teamed up with her principal Midnights collaborator for a new version of “Anti-Hero”.
Taylor Swift recorded Midnights with co-producer and longtime collaborator Jack Antonoff. Over the past few years, thanks in part to his work with Swift, Antonoff has become one of the main characters in all of pop music. He reached this level mainly by producing for other artists, but Antonoff is also the leader of Bleachers. Last night Taylor Swift released a new mix of ‘Anti-Hero’, it’s tagged as featuring Bleachers, and it basically became a full Jack Antonoff duet. At first, this new remix was only available as a downloadable single, but it’s now streaming.
We don’t hear anything about sexy babies in the new version of “Anti-Hero.” Instead, Antonoff takes this verse and he changes the lyrics: “Sometimes I feel like everybody’s an art bro lately/ And I’m just judging ’em over the hill/ Too hurt to hanging out, talking shit about your famous baby/Pierced through the heart of 90s guilt. Antonoff also revs up the synthpop backbeat a bit, and he sings in backup throughout. Need the voice of Jack Antonoff?You decide!Listen below.