After igniting a social media firestorm by saying Taylor Swift “doesn’t write her personal songs,” Damon Albarn devoted a efficiency to the Los Angeles Occasions reporter who corrected him.
Throughout a Monday night time present at L.A.'s Walt Disney Live performance Corridor, the veteran musician of Blur and Gorillaz fame briefly addressed the buzzy Occasions interview wherein he insulted Swift. Albarn had apologized for the remark earlier within the day after Swift reprimanded him on Twitter.
Earlier than launching right into a rendition of the 1997 Blur hit “Track 2,” Albarn informed the gang that Occasions pop music critic Mikael Wooden prompt he play that monitor “earlier than he forged me into the social media abyss.”
“You'll be able to decide for your self,” he added vaguely, in line with footage of the live performance posted on Twitter. “I believe I’m changing into old style. ... That is for you, Mikael.”
Throughout a dialog printed Monday in The Occasions, Wooden hailed Swift as “a wonderful songwriter,” to which Albarn replied, “She doesn’t write her personal songs.”
When Wooden pushed again — saying, “After all she does,” whereas noting that the Grammy winner “co-writes a few of them” — Albarn doubled down.
“That doesn’t rely,” he mentioned.
“I do know what co-writing is. Co-writing may be very completely different to writing. I’m not hating on anyone, I’m simply saying there’s an enormous distinction between a songwriter and a songwriter who co-writes. Doesn’t imply that the end result can’t be actually nice. And a number of the biggest singers — I imply, Ella Fitzgerald by no means wrote a music in her life. Once I sing, I've to shut my eyes and simply be in there. I suppose I’m a traditionalist in that sense.”
Albarn additionally lauded anti-pop phenom Billie Eilish and her producer brother, Finneas, as “actually attention-grabbing” songwriters — earlier than including that he's “extra attracted” to Eilish’s music than to Swift’s.
Shortly after the Q&A got here out, Swift shamed Albarn for his remarks.
“I used to be such an enormous fan of yours till I noticed this,” Swift wrote in response to a tweet from The Occasions that quoted Albarn.
“I write ALL of my very own songs. Your scorching take is totally false and SO damaging. You don’t have to love my songs nevertheless it’s actually f— as much as attempt to discredit my writing. WOW.”
About an hour later, Albarn replied, tweeting, “I completely agree with you. i had a dialog about songwriting and sadly it was lowered to clickbait. I apologise unreservedly and unconditionally. The very last thing I'd wish to do is discredit your songwriting. I hope you perceive.”
A few Swift’s frequent collaborators, file producers Jack Antonoff and Aaron Dessner, additionally known as out Albarn whereas leaping to the pop celebrity’s protection.
“I’ve by no means met damon albarn and he’s by no means been to my studio,” Antonoff tweeted, “however apparently he is aware of greater than the remainder of us about all these songs taylor writes and brings in.”
“Unsure why you @Damonalbarn would attempt to discredit Taylor’s good songwriting however as somebody who has gotten to press file round her ... your statements couldn’t be farther from the reality,” echoed Dessner. “You’re clearly utterly clueless as to her precise writing and work course of.”
Learn Wooden’s full interview with Albarn right here.
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