Taylor Swift’s Producer Jack Antonoff Slams Live Nation CEO for Calling Concert Tickets ‘Underpriced’

Jack Antonoff is criticizing Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino’s recent comments about ticket prices.

On Thursday, September 25, the record producer, 41 — who notably collaborated with Taylor Swift on many of her albums — took to X to respond to a statement made by Rapino, who claimed “The concert is underpriced and has been for a long time,” at CNBC and Boardroom’s “Game Plan” conference earlier this month.

Rapino said in part, “In sports, I joke it’s like a badge of honor to spend 70 grand for a Knicks courtside [seat]. They beat me up if we charge $800 for Beyoncé.”

The Grammy Award winner shared a photo of Rapino’s comments and wrote, “This really breaks my heart and is a sick way of looking at it.”

“Answer is simple: selling a ticket for more than its face value should be illegal,” the songwriter continued in a separate post. “Then there is no chaos and you give us back the control instead of creating a bizarre free market of confusion amongst the audience who we love and care for.”

“As always when I read things like that I call my people right away to think of new ideas around it,” Antonoff added in a third post. “We’ll never stop doing that. It could all be so easy if the people up top didn’t see the audience as a faceless group to extort money from.”