Taylor Swift might have shaken off Damon Albarn’s recent criticism of her songwriting abilities, but frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff hasn’t quite yet moved on from the Blur frontman’s comments.
In an appearance on “The What” podcast — intended to promote Antonoff’s Superjam at this year’s Bonnaroo festival — the Bleachers frontman told host Brad Steiner Albarn’s idea of what songwriting involves is “very literal, and also wrong.”
“I don’t mind talking shit, like this or that — but I don’t like it when artists take almost this Trumpian approach of just making things up,” Antonoff said. “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? Isn’t that kind of everything that’s wrong with our world…
