To be fair, Noel brought in on himself. That luddite backwards attitude is what gave us all the mediocre Oasis albums in the 2000s.

Guessing 90% of Americans bent out of shape about this barely know who Damon is. Bizarre to me that Taylor would care about his off hand comment.

It only became a HUGE global story when she decided to tweet it out to her 90 million followers. If she didn't do that, most of the world never hears of the comment he made in a larger Q&A piece. We've all seen Noel destroy various artists and band over the years, sometimes in horrific fashion. This easily could have been Noel. We saw it 12 years ago with the Jay Z incident. I dont wanna experience that again. Taylor has one of the most fever pitch and loyal fan bases around. She knows that directing any anger at someone will make a majority of them pick up the pitchfork and attack. We've seen it with her wars with Scooter Braun, Kanye, Gyllenhaal, Spotify and now Albarn to name but a few.

This reminded me of when Ashcroft gave Jay-Z a shout-out the following night during the Verve's performance, and seemed more progressive and forward thinking culturally than Noel back then. Crazy how times have changed.

All Noel ever said is that he's not a fan and doesn't get it.  Again, that is just completely different than saying someone is lying about being a songwriter.  Apparently, that's Damon's long-held opinion but that makes it even more his problem that he's being asked to defend it!  If you're gonna accuse someone that powerful you better come armed.  

Everyday Robots is great from start to finish, give it a chance.

Humanz was a huge let down for me, but I think The Now Now was a return to form.

From the stuff I've heard, her folky stuff is really good. Anything stripped back, I'll generally lap up. The pop stuff... not a fan myself although appreciate the success.

For sure, she's definitely more convincingly versatile than Albarn these days, who while versatile, isn't convincing in the slightest anymore.

Albarn's solo record ethos these days mistakes subtlety for dullness. Meanwhile, his Gorillaz formula seems to be 'record a bunch of sonic tricks' and 'get guest collaborator to sing over this beat', all the while completely forgetting to write the damn tune.

Albarn dives into a deep depression after realising that after 30 years on, he's wasted so much publicity and radio play potential by not acting more like the Gallaghers and slagging other acts off.

That was fun little scandal! Considering his Taylor/Billie comparison Damon like all other music snobs thinks that sad/stripped down/moody music=masterpiece, upbeat fun poppy music =trash. Kinda disappointed in him, I thought his judgment was better than that. Like lbr Taylor and Billlie are both equally manufactured pop stars cmon. And that’s not bad thing, all big stars are manufactured to a certain extent

Damon did too much. It's a denial of Taylor Swift habilities to write songs. It's not like he discovered that Milli Vanilli are lip sync and dont write their songs or some shit like that. And I don't even like Taylor Swift.

Music production isn’t included in songwriting credits usually so this is pretty weird and most big shots who worked with her are songwriters / producers for many other big acts and I doubt she’d just « giving it to them ». They are credited as both on other acts too.

The thing with those artists it’s always too grey too be all true but again that doesn’t meant she didn’t do anything. She is a songwriter, maybe less so on latter records though. What matters is how those songs are written. Who write the « spirit » if the song.

I’m not convinced she’s been propelled from classic country artist to a songwriter that changes style with every record in few months. I mean, come on. A bit like Gaga who was a real singer / songwriters and then became something else. Their work is still there but it’s not the main component anymore. It’s in the end of the hit maker like max Martin, someone you call when you need a hit.

Here is probably the best article to sum up all that. Is she or if she not ? It depends on what you call songwriting. The end of the article is especially interesting

modernmusicmaker.com/blog/who-writes-taylor-swift-songs?format=amp