Taylor Swift fires back at rock legend Damon Albarn: ‘It is really f***ed up’

A furious Taylor Swift has blown up at Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn over a “damaging” claim he made about her music.

Taylor Swift has furiously hit back at Damon Albarn after the Blur and Gorillaz frontman claimed she didn’t write her own songs.

Albarn, 53, made the assertion in a new interview with the LA Times, where he was asked for his opinion on Swift’s music.

When the interviewer argued that she was a “co-writer”, Albarn declared that it “doesn’t count”.

“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,” he responded, before qualifying that it “doesn’t mean the outcome can’t be really great”.

The rock legend added that he was a “traditionalist in that sense”, before comparing Swift to 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 (Billie’s) exceptional.”

Swift was criticised for being a ‘co-writer’[. Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Albarn was very blunt in his interview. Picture: Thomas Samson/AFP

Within hours of it being posted, Swift retweeted a link to the article, along with a scathing message aimed directly at Albarn.

“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,” the All Too Well singer wrote.

“You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really f**ked up to try and discredit my writing. WOW.”

She followed it up with: “PS I wrote this tweet all by myself in case you were wondering.”

Within an hour, Swift’s furious response had attracted more than 150,000 “likes” and 30,000 retweets.

As her reaction created a buzz online, Albarn took to Twitter to offer an apology, claiming that the interview - which was published as a transcript of his conversation with the journalist - was “reduced to clickbait”.

“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. I hope you understand,” he wrote directly to Swift.

It wasn’t just the Shake It Off singer in Albarn’s firing line during his LA Times interview – the Blur frontman also took a shot at his own work, specifically the song that made him so famous: Song 2.

“That’s a perfect example of something that’s more about attitude and production than actual cracking songwriting,” he told the interviewer.

Originally published as Taylor Swift fires back at rock legend Damon Albarn: ‘It is really f***ed up’