In the 90s, one fell into two main musical fields: blur vs oasis.The Gallagher seemed too rude to me, too on the moderate side of the indie.I felt affinity with Blur leader, Damon Albarn, since it is from my area (we both grew up near "Hollow Ponds", title of the third single from his solo album Everyday Robots, 2014);And blur always seemed more great, more raw.Besides, Albarn was fashionable.

But now?Blur Gladiators Combat against Oasis has given way to the much more unlikely Damon Albarn against Taylor Swift - this time, however, there is a clear winner, and surely it is not Albarn.

The origin of anger?Well, Albarn granted an interview with La Times in which he pompously criticized Swift, saying that "does not write her own songs from her".When the journalist said he does -and that he also co -writes some of them -he mocked."That doesn't count," he replied."I know what co -writing is.Co -writing is very different from writing ".

Albarn hastened to clarify his comments - "I am not hating anyone, I just say that there is a big difference between a composer and a composer who co -writes," he said - but still continued nailing the knife, and compared conveniently with Swift, withhe himself in the main role of great and serious male artist: “When I sing, I have to close my eyes and be there.I guess I am a traditionalist in that sense ”.He also ruled out Swift by comparing her with Billie Eilish, saying she preferred "Bad Guy" singer because "she is darker, less infinitely optimistic".

Silly, Albarn, so dumb as to go against Tay-Tay: the queen of our hearts, our pandemic princess;The star that managed not to get one but two albums during the confinement that (for me, for countless others) became sound bands of our collective melancholy.For me, cross it "infinitely optimistic" only serves to reduce it, and I wonder if that is just the goal.

As my colleague Kevin Eg Perry wrote last night, the war in which Albarn has gotten a lot like indie tribalism.But, in my opinion, it also goes further: their comments are part of a impair pattern of women of culture;An unfortunate altarpiece of women artists, scientists and talented inventors that are discredited, undermined or completely ignored by their work.

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The other night I read my children a story about the English paleantologist Mary Anning, a pioneer fossil collector who discovered the innovative ichthyiosour.Male scientists bought the fossils discovered by Anning, but did not give credit to their discoveries in their scientific articles about the findings.You might think that this type of opinions and behaviors would have disappeared with the Jurassic period, but now we have Albarn.

Swift, as expected, counteratacious, directly tweetDamonalbran was a big fan of yours until I saw this.I write all my songs.Your controversial posture is completely false and so harmful.They don't have to like my songs, but it's really JOD *** Try to discredit my composition.Wow ".

She continued with this epic message: "PD I wrote this tweet I was alone in case you were asking 😑".

Live, sister, live.And although Albarn apologized -yes, on Twitter -it is not the first time he is accused of getting with female artists.On one occasion, apparently, he called Adele "insecure" and "half hair" after having worked together in a music in 2015 that never published;She described Rolling Stone as "one of those moments of" better do not know your idol "".

"And the saddest thing was that I was a big blur fan while growing up," said Adele."But it was sad, and I regret having dated him".Albarn later denied the contempt, saying that the reports came from someone who listened to a conversation with a friend - but this would not be the first time he is in trouble, accused of saying something derogatory about his contemporary women.

Some of the reactions have been wild, and must make Albarn shiver, especially by generation Z.A fan wrote to Swift: "If it makes you feel better, I don't know who this guy is, but I have each of your letters recorded in my brain".

That's gotta hurt.After all, Swift was awarded the Songwriter Icon Award in 2021, and the National Music Publishers ’Association declared that" no one is more influential when writing music today ".The Week described her as "the main composer of modern times".Albarn's apogee, on the contrary, could be said to end, and now, for me, he presents himself as another bitter man with a fragile ego.

Some pointed out that writing their own songs is literally what characterizes Swift;Others said that Albarn was actively trolling her: “At this point, Taylor Swift's achievements are so respected in the music industry that I think either you have to be an ignorant active to affirm that it is not known that it writes its music or-More well- seek attention and a reaction undermining her in public, ”said journalist Sarah Carson.

But others, among which I include my.

A writer, the Dra.An McCormack, shared this screenshot from the cover of a book by Joanna Russ, entitled "How to Suppress Women's Writing" (how"He wrote it, but he is not really an artist".How successful.I could almost have left Albarn's interview with La Times.

The feminist library The Second Shelf also tweeted: “I don't know if you know this or not, but we are constantly angry by all women writers.No, this is not a tweet for Taylor Swift.It is for all.And also for her.And for all of you ".

In the best case, Albarn's opinion seems of ignorance.Maybe he really believes that she never writes her songs.But in the worst case, Albarn simply cannot believe that Swift writes her own songs because she is a young woman, and young women who are beautiful and successful could not have enough talent to do so, or if?

My teenager expects not to be for this reason, because then I would have to change my loyalty to Oasis retrospectively, and I'm not sure I could support Noel Gallagher now, I just can't.

But there is one thing that seems painfully clear to me: while Albarn is busy destroying his reputation, and losing fans (and perhaps Adele was right when he said that you should never know - or reading quotes from your idols), Swift is only marking itselfsame as one more icon.And it is his name that we will read for much longer in history books.