Razorlight’s Johnny Borrell wrote his new music ‘Taylor Swift = US Propaganda’ “in about 10 seconds”.
Razorlight clarify Taylor Swift-inspired music
The 44-year-old rocker insisted that regardless of its title, the music has nothing to do with the US popstar however was impressed by a word he discovered within the recording studio.
He advised NME: “I went again to the Basque nation the place I reside and promptly forgot about being a musician for 5 weeks. My girlfriend requested me: ‘Are you writing something?’ and I simply laughed. I hadn’t even considered it till she put it in my thoughts. I picked up a guitar and, truthfully, just about every thing else occurred. ‘Taylor Swift’ popped out in about 10 seconds.
“After we’re recording, I all the time write down issues folks say. Ending that music within the studio, I noticed a little bit of paper that mentioned: ‘Taylor Swift = US Delicate Propaganda’. In order for you me to touch upon Taylor Swift particularly, I’m unsure I actually can, as a result of I don’t know a lot about her.
“Like I say, I don’t know a lot about Taylor Swift. However I prefer to take the truth of the inventive course of and hold it. And with quite a lot of albums, folks begin off desirous to say issues then, as soon as folks begin saying: ‘Oh, that’s controversial, what’s going to folks say about that?’ The whole lot begins to get smoothed out. In 2024, what’s the purpose?”
And, he urged Taylor’s followers to not take the title significantly.
He mentioned: “I need to keep true. Each step of the best way on this album, what was occurring within the studio is what you get. That piece of paper is a joke somebody thought was humorous on the time. So, why not?”
Razorlight have lately introduced ‘Planet Nowhere’ – their first album recorded by the group’s basic line-up, Borrell, guitarist Bjorn Agren, drummer Andy Burrows and bassist Carl Dalem, since 2008.