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"If you wasn't a teenage fan in the 90s you're not a real fan"

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SecondStarOnTheRight · 31/08/2024 10:35

Seeing comments like this a lot in relation to the Oasis tour, but have seen them in relation to other bands as well!

I was a baby when Take That split up, but knew of them and liked their music and became a fan by their reunion. By some people's reckoning, I can't be a fan of Take That because I was too young to know anything of them in the 90s.

So AIBU to think that because you became a fan at a later date doesn't mean you can't be a real fan? Let everyone enjoy the music!

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Psychoticbreak · 31/08/2024 17:25

oObyeOo · 31/08/2024 14:21

Oh haha! I’m not much of a blur fan these days… used to like them when I was 15 for a bit.

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My ex thinks he is damon albarn which is the only reason I knew then.

He is nothing like him fyi. Maybe he mixed himself up with the gorillaz ....

Chronicallyill6 · 31/08/2024 15:35

Tippertoe · 31/08/2024 14:45

There will be a lot buying just because it’s seen as the place to be next year. How many have been to a Liam gig or High Flying Birds gig in the last 15 years? Both contain many Oasis songs.

To be fair both the aforementioned were exclusively 40-plusers. I felt so old

Tippertoe · 31/08/2024 14:45

There will be a lot buying just because it’s seen as the place to be next year. How many have been to a Liam gig or High Flying Birds gig in the last 15 years? Both contain many Oasis songs.

BunnyLake · 31/08/2024 14:34

bostonchamps · 31/08/2024 10:56

I know it's not the done thing to mention grammar on here but 'if you wasn't' sets my teeth on edge, and I'd pay no attention to anyone who says it.

I thought it was the OP quoting someone else. I don’t normally pull people up for their bad grammar (although I really want to) but felt I could as it was a quote (or maybe not lol).

PoliteOtter · 31/08/2024 14:33

It’s only what we were told by adults in the 90s about the 60s 😉

oObyeOo · 31/08/2024 14:21

Psychoticbreak · 31/08/2024 13:59

They did that last year.

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Oh haha! I’m not much of a blur fan these days… used to like them when I was 15 for a bit.

Psychoticbreak · 31/08/2024 13:59

oObyeOo · 31/08/2024 13:55

I’ll hold you to that when they decide to tour in a couple years 😂

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They did that last year.

Psychoticbreak · 31/08/2024 13:58

"If you weren't a teenaged fan...."

Elseaknows · 31/08/2024 13:57

I wasn't a fan then, not a fan now either.

I think oasis needs all the fans that they can get.
It reminds me of people wearing nice band tees and being plagued by middle aged men demanding they name all the songs of the band....

oObyeOo · 31/08/2024 13:55

Ineedaholidayagain · 31/08/2024 10:56

I'm a blur fan, we'll take all new fans! 🤣

I’ll hold you to that when they decide to tour in a couple years 😂

oObyeOo · 31/08/2024 13:52

I was a teenage fan of Nirvana and it does give me unnecessary rage when I see people, esp kids! In InUtero tees atm!… One of the songs on there is called rape me! Do the parents know how adult that album is?!

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 31/08/2024 13:51

Covidwoes · 31/08/2024 10:52

"If you wasn't" means they have zero credibility from me! 😂😂

And me.

SmashingPumps · 31/08/2024 13:50

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FuzzyPuffling · 31/08/2024 13:22

Oh bugger..
Sorry Mozart.

Anonym00se · 31/08/2024 12:40

My DD has dreamed about this day all her life. She’s 20, and an Oasis superfan. She can play every single Oasis song on guitar, even obscure tracks from the later albums. It pisses me off that people think she doesn’t deserve her ticket because of her age. She got a ticket this morning, but I didn’t. I’m gutted, but over the moon for her at the same time.

SprigatitoYouAndIKnow · 31/08/2024 12:38

No more Glenn Miller for me then!

Laserwho · 31/08/2024 12:32

I'm a fan of the Beatles. They broke up years before I was even born.

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SecondStarOnTheRight · 31/08/2024 12:08

Don't get me wrong I completely understand that fans from the 90s have waited years for this but at the same time there will be fans who have never had the opportunity to see them before.

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bostonchamps · 31/08/2024 11:54

sunseaandsoundingoff · 31/08/2024 11:08

I don't really understand that "Chloe from Stockport wants to hear Wonderwall live" thing.

Surely that's literally why everyone is going, to hear Wonderwall live.

Yeah who cares about seven-ish albums worth of songs, right. Just play Wonderwall over and over Hmm

Guavafish1 · 31/08/2024 11:26

Just to generate publicity

StrawberrySquash · 31/08/2024 11:26

Just to put the other side, there is something different about having been there back in the 90s. Which doesn't mean you can't be a fan if you were born this century, but I can understand that feeling of 'You weren't there'.

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SecondStarOnTheRight · 31/08/2024 11:15

The grammar error is my own doing, just to make everyone aware! The other students at my school were more concerned with wrecking and disrupting the room than letting us learn. 👍🏻

I'm not an Oasis fan by any means, but I do like some of their songs. Music can have different meanings for different people and my parents had an influence on the music I like. It just annoys me that just because some people are younger it means you can't be a fan! I'd rather see a bunch of teenagers enjoying Oasis than see them listen to some of the awful music that's around nowadays.

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BunnyLake · 31/08/2024 11:14

Well I don’t think I’d be paying heed to anyone who said ‘you wasn’t’.

sunseaandsoundingoff · 31/08/2024 11:08

I don't really understand that "Chloe from Stockport wants to hear Wonderwall live" thing.

Surely that's literally why everyone is going, to hear Wonderwall live.

MyNoseSmells · 31/08/2024 10:57

The opinion of anyone with grammar like that means very little to me.

Although that's 95% of Oasis fans so I'm not surprised this post has cropped up today.