article_snippet.sent: Damon Albarn said modern pop stars are part of a 'selfie generation' that just sings about platitudes .
article_snippet.sent: Damon Albarn has criticised today's pop stars for 'talking platitudes' and singing only about themselves, at a time when, Damon Albarn believes, themselves could be using themselves music to make political statements in the run up to the general election.
article_snippet.sent: The 47-year-old dubbed modern pop artists as existing in a 'selfie generation' of stars who use their music to reveal only how their feel. '
article_snippet.sent: Modern day musicians are talking platitudes now and it's not interesting to me,' Damon Albarn told the Sunday Times' Culture magazine.
article_snippet.sent: Albarn said Albarn would like to see popstars talking about what is going on around popstars and using popstars music to comment on modern society and politics.
highlights_snippet.sent: Damon Albarn said modern day popstars are just singing 'platitudes'
  Damon Albarn called for performers to use music to comment about current issues .
  