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Critiquing Oasis

Oasis and Oasis fans seem to live in a parallel universe only obliquely connected to mine. Same with much of Britpop tbh. Even though I lived through it all, my attention was focused in the opposite direction, so I find it as alien and as difficult to connect to as if I’ve never heard Oasis before or as if they’re a band from a long gone era that I was never interested in.
So I was surprised to learn from within my normally Oasis-free bubble of the recent fuss and bother over this reunion tour and now I feel all bewildered and disconnected as I do when the nation gets as excited about sports events. Whole stadia filled with people who I feel no connection to at all. It’s like I or they are aliens. It’s so disconcerting. I wonder if anyone else is feeling this disconnect or if it’s just me and my own weirdness. I also wonder if it looks the same for other people on the other side who see people raving to hard electronic music with 909s and 303s and no interest in ball games and also think ‘wtf? WHO ARE THEY?’
 
Orang Utan said:
Oasis and Oasis fans seem to live in a parallel universe only obliquely connected to mine. Same with much of Britpop tbh. Even though I lived through it all, my attention was focused in the opposite direction, so I find it as alien and as difficult to connect to as if I’ve never heard Oasis before or as if they’re a band from a long gone era that I was never interested in.
So I was surprised to learn from within my normally Oasis-free bubble of the recent fuss and bother over this reunion tour and now I feel all bewildered and disconnected as I do when the nation gets as excited about sports events. Whole stadia filled with people who I feel no connection to at all. It’s like I or they are aliens. It’s so disconcerting. I wonder if anyone else is feeling this disconnect or if it’s just me and my own weirdness. I also wonder if it looks the same for other people on the other side who see people raving to hard electronic music with 909s and 303s and no interest in ball games and also think ‘wtf? WHO ARE THEY?’
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It's not just you. I don't understand that nonsense. It's almost as if some people are fucking idiots. Or maybe I just don't understand.
 
Orang Utan said:
Oasis and Oasis fans seem to live in a parallel universe only obliquely connected to mine. Same with much of Britpop tbh. Even though I lived through it all, my attention was focused in the opposite direction, so I find it as alien and as difficult to connect to as if I’ve never heard Oasis before or as if they’re a band from a long gone era that I was never interested in.
So I was surprised to learn from within my normally Oasis-free bubble of the recent fuss and bother over this reunion tour and now I feel all bewildered and disconnected as I do when the nation gets as excited about sports events. Whole stadia filled with people who I feel no connection to at all. It’s like I or they are aliens. It’s so disconcerting. I wonder if anyone else is feeling this disconnect or if it’s just me and my own weirdness. I also wonder if it looks the same for other people on the other side who see people raving to hard electronic music with 909s and 303s and no interest in ball games and also think ‘wtf? WHO ARE THEY?’
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Surely it's not that alien to you to think people could like an average group you don't for various reasons. And ball games require skill and athleticism. So they might create moments of excitement in a competitive fixture. I mean what the fuck are you on about?
 
Humberto said:
Surely it's not that alien to you to think people could like an average group you don't for various reasons. And ball games require skill and athleticism. So they might create moments of excitement in a competitive fixture. I mean what the fuck are you on about?
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Just a massive disconnect with a huge amount of people. As I said, it’s very disconcerting and makes me feel like an alien.
 
ska invita said:
Oasis are such cunts for doing this...not like the saintly Taylor Swift....she would never chose to do "dyanmic pricing".

Oh.
newrepublic.com

Go Ahead and Blame Taylor Swift for Ticket Prices

Yes, Ticketmaster takes advantage of its monopoly. But the real problem is dynamic pricing.
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Certainly feels like the computer 'glitches' are deliberate. Given the amount of money they're making, you'd think they could afford the bandwidth to get it done a bit quicker but keeping someone hanging for several hours then giving them two minutes to decide is going to make sure their choice is as pressured as possible.
 
Louise Distras put out a video endorsing Oasis 'in the age of wokeness' and I didn't watch the whole thing because I hate her, but from the comments, I'm guessing she was cunting on about how musicians are too woke today and we need bands like Oasis who are PROPER ROCK'N' ROLL MEN who do loads of drugs and fuck loads of groupies, none of that pussy being kind shite, yeah? Total men of the people, even though they support dynamic pricing and Noel doesn't want his kids going to schools where they might speak like Ali G. I wonder if she thinks Marilyn Manson is a legend too.

For context, Distras is a 'punk' singer who claims she was blacklisted from the music industry for saying 'trans women aren't women'. Which I'm guessing is a lie. More like she wasn't selling, so she went down the far right grifter route because that's where the money is, and has loads of likes from horny far right men with Union flags in their headers, saying they hope Oasis will be talking about how they're proud to be British. She also played at Tommy Robinson's rally and was apparently shit, and people only watched her because they agreed with her politics. She's basically a massive attention seeker who claims she's anti-establishment despite parroting the same views as various Labour and Tory MPs.

ETA: someone is blaming wokeness for ticket prices going up. I despair.
 
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Orang Utan said:
Oasis and Oasis fans seem to live in a parallel universe only obliquely connected to mine. Same with much of Britpop tbh. Even though I lived through it all, my attention was focused in the opposite direction, so I find it as alien and as difficult to connect to as if I’ve never heard Oasis before or as if they’re a band from a long gone era that I was never interested in.
So I was surprised to learn from within my normally Oasis-free bubble of the recent fuss and bother over this reunion tour and now I feel all bewildered and disconnected as I do when the nation gets as excited about sports events. Whole stadia filled with people who I feel no connection to at all. It’s like I or they are aliens. It’s so disconcerting. I wonder if anyone else is feeling this disconnect or if it’s just me and my own weirdness. I also wonder if it looks the same for other people on the other side who see people raving to hard electronic music with 909s and 303s and no interest in ball games and also think ‘wtf? WHO ARE THEY?’
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Think some are just caught up in the hype and want to be at an event, to join in with something but aren't necesarily huge Oasis fans. To take part in some communal event with thousands of others. Same with big football matches. Not so dissimilar to a rave is it?
 
Lotte said:
Louise Distras put out a video endorsing Oasis 'in the age of wokeness' and I didn't watch the whole thing because I hate her, but from the comments, I'm guessing she was cunting on about how musicians are too woke today and we need bands like Oasis who are PROPER ROCK'N' ROLL MEN who do loads of drugs and fuck loads of groupies, none of that pussy being kind shite, yeah? Total men of the people, even though they support dynamic pricing and Noel doesn't want his kids going to schools where they might speak like Ali G. I wonder if she thinks Marilyn Manson is a legend too.

For context, Distras is a 'punk' singer who claims she was blacklisted from the music industry for saying 'trans women aren't women'. Which I'm guessing is a lie. More like she wasn't selling, so she went down the far right grifter route because that's where the money is, and has loads of likes from horny far right men with Union flags in their headers, saying they hope Oasis will be talking about how they're proud to be British. She also played at Tommy Robinson's rally and was apparently shit, and people only watched her because they agreed with her politics. She's basically a massive attention seeker who claims she's anti-establishment despite parroting the same views as various Labour and Tory MPs.

ETA: someone is blaming wokeness for ticket prices going up. I despair.
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I think I followed my band her on Myspace back in the day. I don't remember the music being any good.
 
Not surprised. I really, really doubt she got blacklisted for being anti-trans. It's more likely that she's shit and talentless, but she's jumping on the anti-woke bandwagon because it'll get her attention and she can use it to flog her singles. I mean, imagine being so desperate for attention you'd play a Tommy Robinson rally. It's exactly the same shit Joey Barton did, he failed at being a manager so he started doing a right-wing podcast instead. It's so tedious and predictable. Fail at something, go on grift, blame 'woke'.

The comments are so predictable. Full of antivaxxers ('why haven't Oasis spoken out against the COVID hoax?'), people who think Tony fucking Blair is woke, people who think punk doesn't exist anymore and all gigs are over £30 and populated by middle-class people taking selfies. Which is funny, because I've definitely paid less than £30 for plenty of gigs, including Black Flag since those tickets were going cheap.

ETA: I looked Distras up on here and someone mentioned her appearing in a discussion in the Left Field with Billy Bragg about 10 years ago, so that's...quite a direction change. She also went down the anti-woke route because IIRC one of her siblings came out as trans and they had a big fallout.
 
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Lotte said:
Louise Distras put out a video endorsing Oasis 'in the age of wokeness' and I didn't watch the whole thing because I hate her, but from the comments, I'm guessing she was cunting on about how musicians are too woke today and we need bands like Oasis who are PROPER ROCK'N' ROLL MEN who do loads of drugs and fuck loads of groupies, none of that pussy being kind shite, yeah? Total men of the people, even though they support dynamic pricing and Noel doesn't want his kids going to schools where they might speak like Ali G. I wonder if she thinks Marilyn Manson is a legend too.

For context, Distras is a 'punk' singer who claims she was blacklisted from the music industry for saying 'trans women aren't women'. Which I'm guessing is a lie. More like she wasn't selling, so she went down the far right grifter route because that's where the money is, and has loads of likes from horny far right men with Union flags in their headers, saying they hope Oasis will be talking about how they're proud to be British. She also played at Tommy Robinson's rally and was apparently shit, and people only watched her because they agreed with her politics. She's basically a massive attention seeker who claims she's anti-establishment despite parroting the same views as various Labour and Tory MPs.

ETA: someone is blaming wokeness for ticket prices going up. I despair.
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Fucking he’ll, she has gone a long long way down that road:

She is a supporter of far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (aka Tommy Robinson) and announced that she was "proud to sing for our country with Tommy Robinson" on social media in July 2024.[28]
 
I prefer Oasis to Taylor Swift, but then I grew up with Oasis and know more of their songs and own one of their albums (although I should buy The Masterplan).
 
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