Noel Gallagher has a problem with the contemporary music scene

[hewontgo]

#NoelGallagher misses the days of “proper flamboyant rock stars” https://t.co/u5TcfS2xCC
- ET Canada (@ETCanada) September 28, 2020
Former Oasis songwriter complained about the selection of modern rock stars

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[xellabelle]

I've recently discovered that if you read out loud Oasis lyrics like Champagne Supernova it makes no sense and is super basic/cringe rather than the masterpiece people think it is.

How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?

Like wtf is this??

Honestly, the lyrics in some bands are shit af and the only reason why people think they are great songs is because it's a male voice singing it in a 'cool rockstar' way. It's like when Ryan Adams covered Taylor Swift's 1989 and suddenly people thought the lyrics were great.

[cgoblin]

Gallaghers lyrics are notoriously bad and nonsensical. Fans made their peace with that fact cause they dig the choons too much.

[mangomuch]

omg not the choons 💎

[mandramoddle]

Noel was basically snorting crystal meth and coke the whole first half of the 90s, hence why their lyrics make no sense. Kinda like how Kurt Cobain's songwriting is on the same drug-addled level.

[xtinkerbellax]

I didn't realize people even held their lyrics in high esteem. A lot of rock is about the actual music though, and I think that's what people are praising more than lyrics or even singing a lot of the time.

[coldwater1010]

I wasn't a fan back then because in the Brit Pop wars I was a Blur fan but even though Oasis was big their music still got a lot of criticism for being very simplistic. I do think time and a whole new generation tends to change people's perspective on things.

[mangomuch]

I don't remember anyone giving them any extra credit for their lyrics, it was basic rock music. Noel would also say that it's just a load of nonsense.

I do also remember Noel saying he's dyslexic and that Liam would complain in the studio that he didn't know what he was supposed to be singing.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a new generation of fans doing deep analysis and revisionist history 'cause that seems to always happen with music.

[unintentionalty]

I liked Oasis in the 90s, but I've never heard anyone describe their lyrics as good or deep. They're easy to remember and sing along to even if you don't have a good grasp of English, which is why I think they were so much more popular than the other, superior Brit Pop bands.

[hellocalamity]

I was a huge Oasis fan in high school (early 2000s, so this was past their peak anyway) and revisited them a few months ago in pandemic-inspired nostalgia. Their lyrics were chiefly somewhere between "cringeworthy" and "meh." I do still think they have one song that's still enjoyable, lyrically and musically:

[blahblahcakes64]

This is my personal favorite.

[umilicious]

This is easily their best song, even though Wonderwall has layers and layers of memories tied to it (for me -- I get how and why people hate it).

[para1]

It's stream of consciousness and much more sensical than Mrs Dalloway:

"Some of the lyrics were written when I was out of it," he told the NME in September 1995. "That's probably as psychedelic as I'll ever get. It means different things when I'm in different moods. When I'm in a bad mood being caught beneath a landslide is like being suffocated."

But other inspirations came from Noel's childhood. The memorable couplet "Slowly walking down the hall / Faster than a cannonball" was a memory from kids' TV.

"[It's] about Brackett the butler who used to be on Camberwick Green, or Chigley or Trumpton or something," Noel revealed. "He used to take about 20 minutes to go down the hall. And then I couldn't think of anything that rhymed with 'hall' apart from 'cannonball'.

"So I wrote 'Slowly walking down the hall/ Faster than a cannonball' and people were like, 'Wow, f**k, man'.

"There's also the line 'Where were you while we were getting high?' because that's what we always say to each other"

[cosmic_starz]

Eh, it's still better than that overplayed Wonderwall.

And to quote the band Travis: "What's a 'Wonderwall', anyway?"