“His version of being a songwriter] is literal, but it's also wrong. I think the Damon thing, what it says to me, because I obviously, it's completely absurd and everyone knows that: You're talking about one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, who has her name as the only name on many songs. You don't need me to explain that, it's just, it's fact. The problem I had with the Damon thing beyond what he actually said is I don't like it when artists who are—the concept of being an artist, you have to be very tapped into a deep place—and I don't mind talking shit, or this or that, but I don't like it when artists almost take this Trumpian approach of just making things up. Like, I don't care if Damon Albarn or anyone likes or doesn't like something, but to unequivocally make a statement that isn't; true, that you actually have no idea about, and not to get too deep on it, but isn't' that kind of everything that's wrong with our world at the moment? Just people talking about shit that they have no clue about. [...] I expect it from politicians, I expect it from idiots and herbs and corporate assholes and what not. When it's from someone who's in a band, and is an artist, I'm like, 'I don't know man.' It's such a vulnerable thing to be an artist or a songwriter. You want to go full Liam Gallagher and be like, 'This person sucks, that person sucks,' whatever, do you. But to just sort of launch this weird, baseless concept with this with this bravado that it's such fact? I tweeted this, but maybe before you say that you should shut the fuck up."
— Jack Antonoff to The What podcast on Taylor as an artist and the Damon Albarn situation (x)
