Why do so many people seem ‘triggered’ by Oasis?

[Blueybanditbingochilli]

For want of a better word.

If I saw a band I didn’t like were reforming, it wouldn’t stay in my head longer than a split second, it would be absolutely nothing to me.

Yet we’ve had multiple threads from posters demanding to know why anyone is buying tickets, why don’t people agree that they’re shit, how superior their own music taste is and what a better person they are for it (😂). I would never demand to know why somebody likes something I don’t, it just seems so arrogant and the answer so obvious.

If the band are aiming to be a bit ‘marmite’ they’ve clearly got the result they wanted!

I've heard of her because I read the papers but I've never heard any of her songs.

G, Am, C and D chords 🙌
EXACTLY, such musically lazy shite after the 1st album

They're just desperate to show how special and not like the other girls they are.

Yes, there's definitely an element of that throughput MN!

It’s so interesting how algorithms work these days. A band like Oasis must be so far away of anything I usually click on or pay attention to online that I only know they’re reforming because of MN. I’ve seen absolutely nothing about them anywhere otherwise.

Ben Fogle posted about it on his IG, in the queue for tickets. Jamie Oliver had something about it too a few days previously. A female radio DJ/mum influencer I follow was giving out tips to get tickets. But if you're on IG and follow any major band, you get the sponsored Ticketmaster posts. It's also on all the mainstream news pages internationally. It's quite far reaching!

Agree about people on here finding everything shit.

There was a thread the other day about lovely things to look forward to in autumn and someone said they hated it and only liked summer as "all other times of the year are shit" or something along those lines.

Imagine hating 3/4 of the year

I vaguely know the writer and whilst I do think he's a bit of knob and so far up his own arse at times that he needs to wear sunblock to go to the toilet, he is absolutely right about Oasis fans. He'd have been avoiding getting a kicking from them for looking 'gay' (when he's actually very much married, twice actually) any time he left the house, particularly when attending gigs, going to pubs and generally existing.

DP, who lived hundreds of miles away in the same period had identical issues and therefore also despises the original fandom.

Agreed. Everyone is so angry. Angry about everything. It's got worse post covid.

@greenel I’m definitely out of the loop then 😄 I wouldn’t see anything any of the people you mention post (I even had to Google ‘Ben Fogle’ to check I was thinking of the right person! I was, lol.) I don’t follow any major bands, my sponsored posts are from smaller ticket sellers and I don’t generally go on mainstream news pages, unless it’s from clicking on a link to specific articles. It goes to show how easy it is to end up in echo chambers online.

What a characteristically pathetic article. Peak Guardian. Some miserable non-binary flump is not happy. The football lads at school made fun of him! Waah! Stop the press! So lazy and pointless to look back at 30 years ago through the prism of today...and when you do, gosh, how dull and sanctimonious today really is! Don't look back in anger mate! 😄

DP did say he wondered if it reminded certain people of when they were young and bit uncool and that’s why they feel defensive 😬😬😬

A lot of it is snobbery, same as the Taylor Swift thing. People like to think they are above that sort of thing and look down on those that like things they don’t. I am not an Oasis fan, I know some of their music and might sing a long to it on the radio but have no desire to see them. I have a friend who has got tickets and I am thrilled for her as she is really excited.

I never understand the AIBU to not get the hype over ….. football, love island, cycling etc as if it’s totally beyond their understanding that people like different things.

People just like to piss on other people chips for some weird reason.

@Blueybanditbingochilli Ive wondered that too 🙈

It's because oasis became the band that people who didn't even particularly like music liked. Like Kings of Leon and stereophonics ; you can sing quite happily cos you know the tunes and most of the words. And their whole identity became being an oasis fan.

And yes, I know I sound a bit 'I liked them first', and a music snob,but the oasis worship was tiring first time round.i get the joy; I felt the same when some of my teenage favourite bands teamed up and did gigs a few years ago, but the fact oasis are touted as THE band of the 90s is irritating to those of us who spent our teens living for a whole range of music.

It IS true - the current frenzy speaks for itself.

Better rarely correlates to most popular. Oasis are a case in point. The fact you don't agree, is neither here nor there.

But there are no official body who crown ‘THE band of the 70s/80s/90s’. The press say it about any major band who suddenly make the news for some reason. They need to interest readers, saying ‘they were prominent in the 90s, possibly not the biggest band, or truly iconic, but well known nonetheless’ wouldn’t excite readers.

I thought everyone knew this.

At least Taylor Swift seems a genuinely nice person although without knowing her personally it could all be hogwash, but she seems a better role model for younger girls

Oasis weren’t trying to be role models for young girls. They weren’t trying to be role models for anything as far as I can see apart from a haircut and coat.

I know this won’t go down well on here but some people like others who are a bit spiky, or sarcastic, or entertaining in a ‘omg’ way. I can think of 10 adjectives to describe Liam (not all conventionally flattering) but none to describe Taylor bar… nice? Kind? Simpering neutrality is just so dull and the mould virtually everyone tries to pile into these days, desperate not to be ‘cancelled’ or seen as too anything.

The world would be extremely dull if only the Mn-approved personality type existed.

I'm ambivalent about their music, but didn't one of them get filmed relatively recently by CCTV, assaulting his girlfriend/a woman, grabbing her by the throat or something? And yet, collectively, the world excuses another piece of shit domestic abuser, and puts ticket money in this man's pocket 🙄 that's the real bullshit aspect to it all.

Maybe there's an element of the Gallaghers being pretty awful people, who are now going to make even more money?

My thread wasn’t ’why does anyone have a negative opinion about any band/singer?’

I haven’t demanded to know why people like Taylor, or why she’s big news. I accept it’s because a lot of people like her, even if I don’t.

I always thought Liam was a knob until I saw him in concert ...he was amazing. Ive now got tickets...am chuffed!