Blur's lead singer Damon Albarn got into trouble with her big mouth, and in an interview published in the Los Angeles Times on January 23, 2022, he said that Taylor Swift "she doesn't write her own songs."
Afterwards, Dumb Meng attracted a piece of verbal criticism, and Xiao Mould also sent the first tweet of 2022 to refute him.
Although it is a second to apologize, after watching the whole interview, I actually have a different view...
Combined with contextual understanding, we can know what Dumb Meng really means.
Of course, it doesn't matter if you're going to catch him by saying, "She doesn't write her own songs."
I found that none of the many answers went to see the original text of this interview, so I went to pick up the original text a little.
At that time, the reporter should have talked about a topic, and then Du Meng expressed his dissent about today's music:
You'll know if these songs are really good or if they're only popular because of the sound and the attitude. When the day of reckoning comes, to be honest, not much of the music of today will stand the test.
Then the reporter began digging the pit:
You mean a lot of music creators now rely on sound and attitude?
Then Dumb and cute honestly jumped into the pit:
Would you take a look at someone who isn't like that?
reporter:
She may not quite match your tastes, but Little Mold is a good songwriter.
Then Dumb Meng said the shocking sentence:
She doesn’t write her own songs.
*Note that the literal translation of this sentence is "she doesn't write her own songs", that is, Dumbie believes that TS does not express her "real" self through music, especially the current TS
Then the reporter and Dumb Meng discussed the difference between music creators and co-authoring songs, and the reporter said:
She definitely wrote her own songs, at least with others to create a lot.
Dumb meng said a long paragraph later:
That doesn't count, I know what "co-creation" means. Co-authoring and independent creation are two different things. I'm not hating anyone, I'm just saying that there's a big difference between a music creator and a person who works together to write songs. Of course, this does not mean that co-creation cannot complete good works. Some of the greatest singers, for example, Ella Fitzgerald, have never written a single song in their lives.
When I sing, I have to close my eyes and just be in there. I think in that sense, I'm a traditionalist.
One really interesting music creator (today) is Billie Eilish and her brother. I prefer the latter's work to TS. Their music is darker—there's no such thing as endless chicken blood (upbeat), it's smaller and weirder, and I think she (Pear) is special.
Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas
Finally, a brief chat about my opinion, in fact... Actually, I'm in favor of being cute...
Little Mold is a very good musician, and she is indeed very talented, but she has long become a part of popular music and has never made any breakthrough in artistry (it is said that in the future art history, the successful transformation of Sister Thunder may have a higher status than Little Mold).
But the historical status of Xiao Mould is of course also very high, at least she single-handedly promoted country music to become popular again, and single-handedly influenced countless girls to play guitar heroes, and it is indispensable for the rise of female independent music.
In her own music creation, she has her own things, but aesthetically she has always been wrapped up in mainstream and popularity, and these "cooperations" with capital meaning will be more from the commercial point of view than from the artistic point of view.
TS's later albums did step on the G-spot of the times, but this is obviously the most despised by old-school musicians like Dumb Meng (think about why the rock circle despises U2's Bono the most).
As I often give as an example, the Beatles would not have had much higher historical status than Menkey without Sergeant Pebb, but it was precisely because they chose shock-style innovation at the peak of popularity, completely smashed their idol aura, completely exploded the creativity of several members of the band, and made the direction of the music world completely turn, which is why the Beatles can be canonized.
But if you go back to that time, it actually took great courage for them to make such a transformation, and it was courage, luck, strength and genius that together created that legend.
Taylor Swift
And going back to the example of The Little Mold, is there an essential difference between her and today's "stars" who are scrambling on the leaderboard?
Just as I'll see other names in other answers, is her music "essentially" different from theirs?
But how to say it...
Ella Fitzgerald is irreplaceable, the Beatles are irreplaceable, David Bowie is irreplaceable, and even in a sense, Blur is irreplaceable.
But TS after "RED" went in another direction on the road to "irreplaceable".
references：
Damon Albarn sounds off on Taylor Swift, Rolling Stones - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)