"I went away and licked my wounds"
Interview to Damon Albarn. 
By Dorian Lynskey for IFA and Clarín.
By Dorian Lynskey for IFA and Clarín.
Translation by Carolina Friszman."I didn't get in the music business the best possible way. I signed a contract for an important company when I was only a teenager, most of all emotionally. So I would continually wonder: how am I going to get out of this mess? And maybe I haven't got out of it at all". When Blur began to have its prime in the middle 90s, Albarn found out how brutal fame can be. Oasis' fans called him "a fag from the south", the critics accused him of faking an English accent and he was generally considered to be too smart for his own good. "During all the brit pop period I suddenly woke up to the traps of fame and the way you can be manipulated by the press, and transformed into something you're not. I went away and licked my wounds, and I came back. Mali (his new project, an Afro music album) has set me free from the lethargy of being British".
 
May 21st, 2002.
For reading the complete article (in spanish), click here.
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