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!

Haha

Even if a band I liked back in the day were reforming after many years, I wouldn't be going crazy like this. Because I've grown up since then.

We like records and because of the rarity the artists might have only done a couple of recordings and died without realising the impact they had on the scene.koko.😀

If you thought that article was scathing about Oasis, read this by the late journalist Neil Kulkarni, he really doesn't hold back! ( they were both journos in Melody Maker in the 90s so considered themselves the arbiters of good taste...)

neilk.substack.com/p/on-oasis-the-gallaghers-d4abcb889d59

I think I feel a bit pissed off by how much news coverage it's getting.

I can't recall this level of news hype for anyone but Taylor Swift. It just doesn't seem all that newsworthy and even though I like their music, I just don't see it as being as big a deal as other people are making it. I can't imagine me feeling any band or artist was worth this level of news coverage. The Taylor Swift hype dragged on for ages and now it feels like it will be rinse and repeat but now with Oasis.

You can't force people to care...but it kind of feels like some people expect you to be SO EXCITED. As I was typing this there was a very long segment on SkyNews in the background about it. I just don't get why.

ETA: You know how people get Compassion Fatigue? I have Major Artist Concert Hype Fatigue. Like...yay you got tickets/noooo you didn't get tickets, great/awful for you but please can we just talk about anything that isn't this for the next year because it's just not that interesting to me.

The reunion really has triggered the verbose journalist idiots. Here's another one https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-columnists/arid-41465785.html
He thought this when he was 10 years old. Course he did

"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”."

You have no idea how this poster feels about those others, but what I can see is pure what-about-ism

No I don’t, but I’m sick of the outrage about things like this and radio silence about big things. Like everyone trying to ‘cancel’ Blake Lively for being rude 8 years ago, yet actual child molesters just wander round going about their lives and get celebrated.

Calling someone vile for having an attitude that was largely part of the act is extreme to me. It’s my opinion. They expressed theirs, I responded with nine.

YOU DID ME DIRTY AND CHANGED YOUR POST!!!

Sam smith.

Even more, they can't understand that those other people, who have different thoughts and opinions to them, are not necessarily wrong - that someone can think something different to you and both opinions are equally valid, seems to be beyond comprehension!

Although I don't think it's just on MN, but MN has shown me how many people there are like this in the world, it's just that otherwise you only get to know the opinions of a small number of them. e.g. if you discussed Oasis in the work canteen you'd probably only get opinions from 5 people at a time, not the 100s that respond to a MN thread.

My dad does it, he always says things like 'X TV show is rubbish,' 'Y celebrity is annoying' 'golf is boring,' and thinks that anyone who disagrees with him is automatically wrong. Whereas my default is 'I think X TV show is awful, but fair enough if others like it ' or 'I dislike Y celebrity,' or 'golf is really boring to me, but I fully appreciate that many people love it.'

God almighty @JaneJeffer! Everyone's a critic eh? Pseuds Corner material 😄

So true

Ben Fogle wanting tickets is hilarious. That that's partly the problem I have with Oasis in 2024.
It's like David Cameron claiming the Smiths.
Ben had his chance to see them as a failed Alevel public school, chinless wonder at Portsmouth Poly but he was just too mainstream and townie. Acid Jazz. Wild. Although his love for AstroTurf in his London house would work in the back yard if he moved to Manchester.

I have definitely seen more people moaning about people moaning about not getting tickets than I've seen people moaning about not getting tickets.

But I have enjoyed writing things like "don't look back in anger" and "take that look from off your face" on the statuses of moaners. I'm easily amused.

I just really wish I had a friend called Sally that was moaning about waiting in the queue for tickets. I would really enjoy that.

It was the Kasabian bloke. What everyone needs to remember is the 90s was a very different time. Those of us who loved Oasis and still do didn’t judge. Lots of booze and drugs. We didn’t judge because we were doing it all too. It’s called living

I am mildly irritated by the over the top media coverage and the assumption we all adore them and want nothing more than to see them play Wonderwall. I know legions of people are delighted and good luck to them, I can hold both thoughts. I am however not miserable nor a snob nor 'anti working class' so feck right off with that.

I don't think Oasis are the greatest band of the 90s, I didn't then and don't now. Still not miserable nor a snob.

Liam and Noel Gallagher are still arseholes. Does it matter really? No. Will all the people that landed tickets have a great time? Of course.

(Btw British news media Gallagher is pronounced withoout the second G. Now that is triggering)

This has made me laugh but I guess, whatever your background you can't deny that Oasis produced some great tunes. Sadly I was thrown out after 9 hours queuing by a glitch and I'm hoping they release more dates. Not hopeful they'll get to the end.

TS performs in the age of internet and social media, world is.more global today than 30 years ago. So your comparison is not fair. Having said that, they were popular globally.

TS was born in a rich, privileged background. Secondly, the kind of money successful artists make today cannot be compared to the kind of money their counterparts earned 30 years ago.
3rd, being American everything is about money. A British artist cannot match the PR, marketing American singers have access to.

Wasn’t it more that Liam acted like a massive knob when they were trying to break America?

You should take a break from media for a few days then or go on CNN.

I wouldn't give a shit except just today, one day, one location, there were three people (busker, child doing karaoke I think, and a guy performing at Ffos Caerffili) and a festival sound system all playing/ singing Oasis.

I was team Blur all the way. But I'm sick of Oasis suddenly being everywhere - only puked a couple of the tunes and eventually got sick of them. So spending a whole day hearing it belted out of several places, in some cases very badly, is a bit meh.

Umm…I judged misogyny, violence and people who were nobs in the 90s just as I do now. Why didn’t you? That’s just weird. Also Liam did it as well as the Akala Ian bloke I think. It was, as you say, sadly common. Still wasn’t ’living’ though. Totally possible to have a wild time without all the aggro.