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Jack Antonoff has produced notable albums from female artists like Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey and St. Vincent in recent years. He's also a frequent collaborator with Lorde — producing 2017's Melodrama and also helming its follow-up, Solar Power — but in an interview with The New York Times, the pop star slammed the "sexist" narrative that she's part of what she calls "Jack's stable."
“I haven’t made a Jack Antonoff record. I’ve made a Lorde record and he’s helped me make it and very much deferred to me on production and arrangement. Jack would agree with this. To give him that amount of credit is frankly insulting,” she said, calling the idea “retro” and “sexist.”
“I know that there are certain hallmarks of what Jack does and some of those things I really love and some of them I don’t like,” Lorde continued. “And I beat them out of the work that we do together. I say this with so much love and affection, but I feel like we’re doing up a house together and he’s like, ‘Look at this serviette that I fashioned into the shape of two swans! Look at this set of woven baskets!’ And I’m like, ‘Great — one per room.'”
Elsewhere in the interview, Lorde confessed there's not a "smash" hit on her new album.
“There’s definitely not a smash,” she told the publication. “It makes sense that there wouldn’t be a smash, because I don’t even know really what the smashes are now.”
Solar Power is slated for an August 20 release.