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Taylor Swift And A Legendary Rocker Are Having A War Of Words · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, Damon all barn the
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Speaker 1: men behind the Guerrillas and massively influential UK rock Damn
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Speaker 1: Blur created a bit of a firestorm in a New
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Speaker 1: l A Times interview published on Sunday when he claimed
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Speaker 1: that Taylor Swift didn't write her own music, going on
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Speaker 1: to say co writing doesn't count, and Taylor chose to
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Speaker 1: tackle the accusation head on, writing on Twitter, I write
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Speaker 1: all of my own songs. She says, your hot take
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Speaker 1: is completely false and so damaging. You don't have to
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Speaker 1: like my songs, but you don't have to discredit my writing,
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Speaker 1: and she eventually replied to her tweet, adding cheekily, ps
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Speaker 1: I wrote this tweet oh by myself in case you're
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Speaker 1: wondering but the record. Damon quickly expressed regret, replying in
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Speaker 1: a tweet, I had a conversation about songwriting, sadly was
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Speaker 1: reduced to clickbait. I apologize unreservedly. Taylor songwriting is held
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Speaker 1: in high regard by the music industry. In fact, she
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Speaker 1: was on her with the National Music Publishers Association Songwriter
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Speaker 1: Icon Award just last year, one of her multiple songwriting awards.
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Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood,