In Light Of Taylor Swift's Tussle With Damon Albarn, Here Are Some Other Examples Of Her Being A Total Comeback Queen

Damon Albarn, who?

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As you probably saw, Taylor Swift broke the internet yesterday when she responded to Blur/Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn, who said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that she didn't write her own songs. ICYMI, here's a clip from the interview in question:

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Read the full exchange between @mikaelwood and Damon Albarn ➡️ https://t.co/4Obt2Fjpoi

09:42 PM - 24 Jan 2022

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"@DamonAlbarn I was such a big fan of yours until I saw this," Taylor wrote on Twitter. "I write ALL of 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."

Taylor Swift @taylorswift13

@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 don’t have to like my songs but it’s really fucked up to try and discredit my writing. WOW. https://t.co/t6GyXBU2Jd

08:40 PM - 24 Jan 2022

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In response, Damon tweeted back, "I totally agree with you. I had a conversation about songwriting and sadly it was reduced to clickbait. I apologize unreservedly and unconditionally. The last thing I would want to do is discredit your songwriting. I hope you understand."

Taylor, of course, has a long and glorious history of shutting down the haters. Let's revisit a few, shall we?

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1. When she stood up for artists' pay from music streaming.

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In 2015, when Apple Music first launched their streaming platform, Taylor wrote an open letter chastising the company for not planning to pay artists during the free three-month trial. "I find it to be shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company," she wrote on Tumblr. "Three months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing. We don't ask you for free iPhones. Please don't ask us to provide you with our music for no compensation."

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2. When she refused to answer a sexist question about settling down and having kids.

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In 2019, ahead of her 30th birthday, Taylor shut down a reporter asking her if she was going to settle down and have kids. "I really do not think men are asked that question when they turn 30. So I'm not going to answer that question now," she said.

3. When she explained why her lyrics are so personal.

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Also in 2019, when CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Tracy Smith asked Taylor, "Why sing to the haters?" Taylor had the PERFECT response: "Well, when they stop coming for me, I will stop singing to them. You know, people go on and on about, like you have to forgive and forget to move past something. No, you don’t. You don’t have to forgive and you don’t have to forget to move on. You can move on without any of those things happening. You just become indifferent, and then you move on."

4. When she put a sexist joke about her on blast.

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Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back. How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse shit as FuNnY. Also, @netflix after Miss Americana this outfit doesn’t look cute on you 💔 Happy Women’s History Month I guess

02:55 PM - 01 Mar 2021

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Last year, Netflix series Ginny & Georgia made a joke at Taylor's expense, with a character saying, "You go through men faster than Taylor Swift." Taylor was not having it, tweeting: "Hey Ginny & Georgia, 2010 called and it wants its lazy, deeply sexist joke back. How about we stop degrading hard working women by defining this horse shit as FuNnY."

5. And then there's the Kanye West of it all. Indirectly clapping back at Kanye's "Famous" lyric ("I made that bitch famous"), Taylor pushed back while accepting her Album of the Year Grammy in 2016.

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"[A]s the first woman to win album of the year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame. If you just focus on the work, and you don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday when you get where you’re going, you’ll look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there, and that will be the greatest feeling in the world."

6. Unfortunately, the Kanye/Taylor "Famous" debacle kept going. When Kanye's then-wife Kim Kardashian released a Snapchat of Kanye running the song lyrics past Taylor in a phone call, Taylor shot back that she had never heard or approved of being called "that bitch."

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“Where is the video of Kanye telling me he was going to call me ‘that bitch’ in his song?" she wrote on Instagram. "It doesn’t exist because it never happened. You don’t get to control someone’s emotional response to being called ‘that bitch’ in front of the entire world."

“Of course I wanted to like the song. I wanted to believe Kanye when he told me that I would love the song. I wanted us to have a friendly relationship. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did. While I wanted to be supportive of Kanye on the phone call, you cannot ‘approve’ a song you haven’t heard. Being falsely painted as a liar when I was never given the full story or played any part of the song is character assassination.”

“I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, one that I have never asked to be a part of, since 2009."

7. When she showed the world that she had been telling the truth all along.

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Eventually, a longer cut of Kim's Snapchat video was leaked, showing Taylor had been telling the truth all along. "Instead of answering those who are asking how I feel about the video footage that leaked, proving that I was telling the truth the whole time about *that call* (you know, the one that was illegally recorded, that somebody edited and manipulated in order to frame me and put me, my family and fans through hell for 4 years)…SWIPE UP to see what really matters," Taylor wrote in an Instagram story, linking out to the World Health Organization and Feeding America.

8. When she put Joe Jonas on blast.

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Now, let's zoom back to 2008, when she put Joe Jonas on blast on The Ellen Show: "I’m not even going to be able to remember the boy who broke up with me over the phone in 25 seconds when I was 18."

9. When she shut down a sexist comparison between women and cats.

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Then, in 2014, Taylor was on The Graham Norton Show with John Cleese, who "joked" about cats: "I much prefer cats; they’re unpredictable and cussid, like women." To which Taylor looked mildly furious and said, "Ooooh, we don't want to do that!"

10. When she shut down a reporter at the Grammys who was more focused on her love life than her achievements.

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Also in 2015, that time she told an ET reporter who suggested she'd be going home with more than just a Grammy: "I'm not going to walk home with any men tonight."

11. And finally, that time she came for music mogul/manager Scooter Braun, who bought all of her Big Red Machine masters without Taylor's knowledge.

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(For additional context, Taylor had been vying to buy back her own masters for some time.) "Some fun facts about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world, All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years," she wrote.

In conclusion, long live the comeback queen!!! Long may she reign.

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