I love Damon but I really can't listen to his new stuff xD

I was definitely let down. Listened to it yesterday. Wasn’t a fan of production choices on many songs. All the best songs were released as singles months prior. Unfortunate. Was much better pre pandemic when it was more piano and stripped back.

Yeah the whole record was pretty much out wasn't it. It's a nice listen, very chilling though, but it should have been an EP or something. Sounds like The Magic Whip took the plane from Asia and went to Iceland. It's probably recycled tunes from that too, has the same vibe, only a bit less good.

Damon produces too much music anyway, quality sometimes get lost among all his projects. It's like a disease really, don't know why he has that need to always release records. A bit like McCartney, can't say i have listened to a third of his last 200 records.

Plus now he needs to release another Blur record. Between this and Coxon recent solo record, there was a Blur album somewhere. Superstate is much, much stronger.

It's... slowly kicking in. This need to be listened on headphones, otherwise it's pointless. It's very calming when you work i gotta say.

Best time to listen to it; early morning when the sun rises, or when the sun goes down.

I like it, although it needed a couple more stronger tracks.

Scratch that, it's a great album. Maybe needed one more big tune. At this speed i'll say it's perfect next week. that's how perfect it is.

Just got told off by Taylor Swift on Twitter, most popular feature he's done for decades

Lucky for Noel she's not a fan of his!  

But also he stopped short of libeling her.  It's one thing to say you're not into the songs, another to say she didn't write any of them.  

I predicted you'd say this, but it's a very silly comparison that doesn't pan out.  Liam has never once tried to sell himself as a songwriter.  He's said in interview after interview that he prefers to work with other writers and that it's the only way he'll ever release multiple albums.  When are you going to just save your energy and accept that he's an iconic singer who sometimes writes lyrics and partial songs?  In any case, there's no swindle where Liam's concerned.

Taylor Swift on the other hand has built her entire reputation on being a songwriter.  She's won numerous songwriting awards, since she was a child essentially. I'm not even a fan of hers, nor do I personally think her songs are masterworks, but this is pretty much accepted reality.  She does work with co-writers but they've said she brings in the songs and then they work on them together.  What's your evidence to the contrary?  Are you Damon?  

This is the key piece of information which explains why you're incorrect. Based on your limited knowledge of the music industry and co-writing you're assuming this to be the case and taking a hard line position on the basis that it's true.

Yeah, the business works a certain way (and owning part of the song as a writer is a way people get paid) and she is very much a huge creation of the industry who of course is going to work with the "big shots."  But no one disputes that she writes lots and lots of songs.  Here's Aaron Dessner for example in Vulture Magazine:  

"Just how fast of a songwriter is Taylor? It’s almost like a song would come out like a lightning bolt. It’s exhilarating. The shared focus, the clarity of her ideas, and the way she structures things, it’s all there... it just shows her versatility and her power as a songwriter, the sharpness of her writing."  
You can disagree with the adjectives but are you saying he's lying?  And are the dozens of other musicians who says she's a prolific songwriter and strong collaborator also lying in some big conspiracy?  

I get Damon's point -- she's not a Paul Simon who creates the whole record from A to Z and there are usually a few chefs in her kitchen.  But there's no need to say she's not a songwriter.  At least Damon realized it was best to eat those words 

He didn't say one bad word about her ffs.

So he likes Billie Eilish more and made a little mistake because he doesn't know that some shitty pop star is actually writing some of her own stuff.

He didn't even mention her or co-writing, they asked him. He just said what he thinks about co-writing in general.

Journalist said:

"Of course she does. Co-writes some of them."

Journalist was saying that she is writing her own songs plus co-writing some of them. And I am sure that Damon didn't understand that and thought that she only co-writes them.

Read this again:

"Of course she does. Co-writes some of them."

It could mean, yes she writes them plus co-writes them or it could mean that she only co-writes some of them and the rest is composed by someone else.


And then princess doesn't like him anymore because he said this haahahahahaa.