Yes, Taylor Swift Writes Her Own Songs | HuffPost Entertainment

Taylor Alison Swift , one of the most decorated singer-songwriters and best-selling musicians of all time, would like to issue a correction.

The artist came to her own defense on Monday after a fellow musician, Damon Albarn, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times taking a dig at Swift that, as anyone whos followed her nearly 20-year career is likely aware, is categorically false: She doesnt write her own songs, the 53-year-old British musician quipped when the Times music critic commended Swifts songwriting prowess.

Swift, 32, responded on Twitter, identifying herself as a onetime fan of Albarns before issuing a dressing-down worthy of one of her best diss tracks.

Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You dont have to like my songs but its really fucked up to try and discredit my writing, wrote Swift, who has a CVS-receipt-length list of songwriting credits to her name and the accolades to prove it.

@DamonAlbarn I was such a big fan of yours until I saw this. I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You dont have to like my songs but its really fucked up to try and discredit my writing. WOW. https://t.co/t6GyXBU2Jd

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@DamonAlbarn I was such a big fan of yours until I saw this. I write ALL of my own songs. Your hot take is completely false and SO damaging. You dont have to like my songs but its really fucked up to try and discredit my writing. WOW. https://t.co/t6GyXBU2Jd
Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) January 24, 2022

Like anyone whos been in the spotlight for most of their life, Swift has earned some criticism: for her onetime aversion to talking politics, for some slut-shaming lyrics on old albums, for fetishizing African colonialism in a music video. Some might call her dance moves cringeworthy . But criticizing her for not being a songwriter? Lets review.

In 2004, at the age of 14, Swift struck a songwriting deal and became the youngest person ever signed to Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Then, in 2007, a teenage Swift became the youngest person ever honored by the Nashville Songwriters Association as songwriter/artist of the year. In 2010, the Songwriters Hall of Fame presented her with the Hal David Starlight Award highlighting young songwriters. In 2015, she became the youngest person ever recognized on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest songwriters of all time .

She is a songwriting savant , Rolling Stone acknowledged years early, in 2008.

Swift is credited as a songwriter or co-songwriter on all of her 11 albums. She famously wrote her third studio album, Speak Now, without any co-writers as a direct response to people who denied she could do it.

Ive had several upheavals in my career. When I was 18, they were like, She doesnt really write those songs. So my third album I wrote by myself as a reaction to that, Swift told Rolling Stone in 2019.