Johnny Borrell clearly. At least Gallaghers talent. You really shouldn't get me started on Borrell, he's an absolute prick. Hate the bloke. What an obnoxious up himself prick, he claimed he's better than Bob Dylan :S He must sure be able to see that:"The songs on the radio sound the same, Everybody just looks the same" and "I got the movie script But I don't know what it meant" are ridiculously awful lyrics, showing not 1 ounce of this self proclaimed genius that he thinks he has.
"Firstly, I'm a genius," started Borrell. "Musically, culturally, everything. I've written two more albums. I'm writing a film in which I'm going to star in and I'm writing the soundtrack. I can't stop. I've got stacks of songs, it's just a case of getting them out there. It's like [Bob Dylan and The Band's] The Basement Tapes: it took years for people to hear them... Compared to the Razorlight album Dylan is making the chips. I'm drinking champagne."
Clearly Borrell's got some talent, but claiming that he's a class above the great Bob Dylan is ridiculous. He's a decent songwriter, but he's nowhere near the best of his generation. The likes of Noel Gallagher, Ryan Jarman, Pete Doherty, Carl Barat and Richard Ashcroft are all far better. I'm normally a fan of confidence and arrogance, but what Borrell has isn't arrogance, it's just obnoxiousness, it's the level above arrogance, which isn't appealing in the slightest. He's so far up his own arse that he fails to realise that he's not the songwriter he claims to be. I agree he's got some talent, but he's nowhere near as good as he thinks he is. Also, for the record, I actually like Razorlight as a band, America's actually a pretty nice track.
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