While max martin and shellback heavily influenced taylor swift's transition to pop, antonoff brought a fresh sound to the pop music industry. Honestly out of all the tracks he did for folklore, august sounds the most like him to me It just sounds like the out of the woods/getaway car/cruel summer of folklore to me. Some of antonoff and swift’s critics have complained that all the duo’s collaborations sound the same, but they charted new territory with this sensual soft rock song. Their recordings have catapulted swift into an extraordinary level of fame Below is a brief playlist of swift and antonoff’s modern classics.
But the lyrics are more complex than the overly twee title track.
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