Taylor Swift shut down Damon Albarn's claims that she doesn't write her personal music, which he alleged in a latest interview with the LA Occasions.
'I used to be such a giant fan of yours till I noticed this,' Swift posted on Twitter. 'I write all of my very own songs. Your sizzling take is totally false and so damaging. You do not have to love my songs however it's actually f**ked as much as try to discredit my writing. Wow.'
The 11-time Grammy winner cheekily quipped in a follow-up message: 'PS I wrote this tweet all on my own in case you have been questioning.'
Her response got here after the Blur frontman, 53, said the 32-year-old pop 'does not write her personal songs' and depends on assistance from co-writers.
After pop music critic Mikael Wooden praised Swift's songwriting talents, the father-of-one aired his perception that 'co-writing may be very completely different to writing.'
'I am not hating on anyone, I am simply saying there is a large distinction between a songwriter and a songwriter who co-writes. Does not imply that the result cannot be actually nice,' he informed the outlet.
The British musician went on to reward Billie Eilish as a 'actually attention-grabbing songwriter' and her brother Finneas O'Connell.
'I am extra interested in that than to Taylor Swift. It is simply darker - much less endlessly upbeat,' he mentioned of the 20-year-old Dangerous Man hitmaker.
He continued: 'Far more minor and odd. I feel she's distinctive.'
Though they've but to collaborate, the ladies have been seen hugging at occasions and cheered one another on throughout their respective 2021 Grammy Awards performances.
Beforehand whereas accepting Billboard's girl of the 12 months award in 2019, Eilish thanked Swift for 'caring for her' and breaking obstacles as a lady within the music trade.
That very same evening, Swift referred to as out 'poisonous male privilege' and the way 'ladies in music usually are not allowed to coast.'
'We're held at a better, typically impossible-feeling, commonplace,' she mentioned throughout her speech, which obtained a standing ovation.
She went on to slam people who claimed, earlier in her profession, that 'a male producer or co-writer' was liable for her success.
'Within the final 10 years, I've watched as ladies on this trade are criticized and measured up to one another and picked at for his or her our bodies, their romantic lives, their vogue,' she continued.
In the end, Swift mentioned she, Lana Del Rey, Billie Eilish and Lizzo and different feminine musicians 'may've' been crushed by the stress, however it made them diamonds.
Report producer and songwriter Jack Antonoff, who has labored with Swift for seven years, jumped to Swift's protection simply minutes after she tweeted.
'When you have been there ... cool ... go off. if not ... perhaps ... shut the f**okay up? the 37-year-old songwriter fired on his personal Twitter.
Antonoff, 37, went on to say he has 'by no means met Damon Albarn' and says the artist has 'by no means' been to his studio, the place he has labored on each one among Swift's albums since 2014.
'However apparently he is aware of greater than the remainder of us about all these songs Taylor writes and brings in,' he quipped.
After receiving backlash on social media, Albarn left a public apology below Swift's tweet, which reads: 'I completely agree with you. i had a dialog about songwriting and sadly it was decreased to clickbait.'
'I apologise unreservedly and unconditionally. The very last thing I'd need to do is discredit your songwriting. I hope you perceive,' he concluded.
Again in 2015, Albarn referred to as Albarn 'very insecure' and her work as 'center of the street.'
'It ended up being a kind of 'do not meet your idol' moments,' she informed Rolling Stone of the feedback. 'It ended up being a kind of 'do not meet your idol' moments.'
She continued: 'But it surely was unhappy, and I remorse hanging out with him.'
'He mentioned I used to be insecure, once I'm the least-insecure particular person I do know,' she mirrored.
