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I was 10 when Oasis blew up, exactly the right age to love them as much as all my peers, but they never appealed to me. At the time, I found their music incurious and regressive; dour, placeholder lyrics set to empty, stadium-ready riffs, delivered with a macho bluster that felt weaponised by posh British music industry types as the safe and acceptable face of Northern attitude. I described it as a staid and boring expression of rock music at its most conservative and unthreatening, marinated in Cbeebies-brand rebelliousness — rebellion, in this case, amounting to little more than palling around with billionaires and prime ministers while giving the fingers to photographers and wearing large coats indoors. I would, in short, have agreed with the late, great Neil Kulkarni, that theirs was “soupy, sexless, muscle-memory rock”. Finding my feet as a music fan in the mid-90s, it seemed like there was a constant conveyor belt of groundbreaking artists who blew open my brain and ripped out my heart, so it was easy for me to cast Oasis as music for people who hadn’t gotten round to listening to very much music. It was like the aural equivalent of the poems you get in birthday cards, or the art you used to find on the walls of web cafes. Even now, the news that they’re reforming fills me with about as much excitement as I feel when Man City’s corporate team announce they’re changing their official fire safety partner.
August 31, 2024 at 2:37 PM