Robbie Williams hits out at Damon Albarn’s comments on Taylor Swift: “Just get a few ribs removed and give yourself a nosh, you twat!”

nme.com:

Robbie Williams has hit out at Damon Albarn over his inaccurate past claim that Taylor Swift “doesn’t write her own songs”.Back in January, the Blur and Gorillaz frontman said that Swift’s “co-writing” approach to making music was at odds with his “traditionalist” view of songwriting during an interview with the LA Times.The journalist then put it to Albarn that Swift is “an excellent songwriter”, to which he responded: “She doesn’t write her own songs.” Albarn said he believed co-writing “doesn’t count”.Swift subsequently hit back, tweeting: “I write ALL my own songs.

Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You don’t have to like my songs but it’s really fucked up to try and discredit my writing.

WOW.”Later, Albarn apologised “unreservedly and unconditionally” to Swift, claiming that his words had been “reduced to clickbait”.

He said: “The last thing I would want to do is discredit your songwriting. I hope you understand.”During a new interview with NME, Williams – who has co-written five of his seven Number One singles to date – dismissed the idea that solo songwriting is more credible than a collaborative approach.“I think that when people say that, what they’re actually doing is having a wank about themselves,” the singer explained.“It’s true!