Short N’ Sweet is well deserved, not only because its commercial success justifies its status as a good “pop vocal” album, but the amount of design, production and engineering effort underneath is, i’d say, generous compared to some other music. The album’s producer Jack Antonoff says about this in one short documentary about the production of its lead single “Please Please Please”:
Sometimes you do something and you spend a ton of time and an amazing amount of effort. And it really is not meant to be anything but a passing moment of the song.
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But these elements that just starts to creep in, they do a thing to me which is really powerful is they create a space that honors how brilliant the listeners is.
