Blur slur! Albarn sorry for saying Taylor doesn’t write her own songs
DAMON Albarn has apologised to Taylor Swift after wrongly suggesting she does not write her own songs.
The Blur frontman, 53, said sorry ‘unreservedly and unconditionally’ on social media, but claimed his comments about the singer in a US newspaper interview had been ‘reduced to clickbait’.
Miss Swift, 32, had reacted to Albarn’s claims in the Los Angeles Times by writing on Twitter: ‘I was such a big fan of yours until I saw this. I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really f ***** up to try and discredit my writing. WOW.’
The singer, whose hits include Shake It Off and Look What You Made Me Do, added: ‘PS I wrote this tweet all by myself in case you were wondering.’
In the interview, Albarn accused modern pop stars of hiding behind ‘sound and attitude’. When the interviewer countered by naming Miss Swift, Albarn replied: ‘She doesn’t write her own songs.’
Told that she wrote or co-wrote her material, he said: ‘Co-writing is very different to writing... there’s a big difference.’
He said he prefers Billie Eilish, a ‘really interesting songwriter... just darker – less endlessly upbeat’. Following Miss Swift’s angry tweet, Albarn, whose Nineties hits with Blur included Parklife, Country House and Charmless Man, replied: ‘I totally agree with you.
‘I had a conversation about songwriting and sadly it was reduced to clickbait. I apologise unreservedly and unconditionally. The last thing I would want to do is discredit your songwriting.’