Musician/singer Damon Albarn (AFP via Getty Images)
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)Damon Albarn’s recent quotes on Taylor Swift’s songwriting have resulted in a swift backlash (excuse the pun) from the singer herself, long-time collaborator Jack Antonoff and even Albarn himself. However, Albarn’s criticism was not directed at himself (as it probably should have been), but the media which he said had reduced his conversation about songwriting he presumably thought was high level to “clickbait”.
Albarn was most likely aware when he sat down with the LA Times that the conversation was on the record and is directly quoted by pop music critic Mikael Wood as saying: “She doesn’t write her own songs,” in reference to Taylor Swift. When challenged on the statement by Wood, who accepted that the 32-year-old singer co-writes some of them, Albarn reportedly doubled down on at least the gist of his criticism, saying: “That doesn’t count. I know what co-writing is. Co-writing is very different to writing.”
