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Damon Albarn apologizes to Taylor Swift for saying she 'doesn't write her own songs'
"The last thing I would want to do is discredit your songwriting," the Blur and Gorillaz musician said after Swift called him out on Twitter.
Blur and Gorillaz musician Damon Albarn is issuing a mea culpa after saying that Taylor Swift "doesn't write her own songs."
"I apologise unreservedly and unconditionally," Albarn tweeted Monday in reply to Swift calling him out on the social media platform. "The last thing I would want to do is discredit your songwriting. I hope you understand."
He also said his remarks, which were made in "a conversation about songwriting," were "sadly… reduced to clickbait."
Albarn's initial comments came in a wide-ranging interview with the Los Angeles Times published Sunday, in which the paper asked whether he thought "a lot of modern musicians are relying on sound and attitude" and he said he did. The Times' Mikael Wood then offered Swift as an example of "an excellent songwriter," which prompted Albarn's slight.
Albarn then elaborated that co-writing songs "doesn't count." He continued: "I know what co-writing is. Co-writing is very different to writing. I'm not hating on anybody, I'm just saying there's a big difference between a songwriter and a songwriter who co-writes. Doesn't mean that the outcome can't be really great. And some of the greatest singers — I mean, Ella Fitzgerald never wrote a song in her life. When I sing, I have to close my eyes and just be in there. I suppose I'm a traditionalist in that sense. A really interesting songwriter is Billie Eilish and her brother [Finneas]. I'm more attracted to that than to Taylor Swift. It's just darker — less endlessly upbeat. Way more minor and odd. I think she's exceptional."https://ew.com/
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