Even pop ‘Icons’ get past it
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Noel Gallagher is 50 and he’s just had a great birthday bash with his star-studded guests, at a drug dealer themed party. Nothing new just the same thread of mediocrity and misery for a less than receptive audience. The usual 90s glitterati were out in force and faces like Madonna, Bono and Stella McCartney took selfies and tweeted accordingly. Cringeworthy to the max or is this just par for the course in the music industry’s contrived hegemony.
Since the split of Oasis Noel Gallagher has drifted in and out of mediocrity to assume a position that can only be pitied. Gone are the days when he’d packed out huge arenas with his brother Liam, but are they due to return? Let’s not hold our breaths. Thankfully society appears to have moved beyond the dirge that we associated with Brit Pop and all of its forced national pride.
Some would argue that Oasis were a legendary band that captured that zeitgeist. The disenfranchised and disaffected youth revered the plagiarised iconic guitar rifts and the message it sent – only to realise that Noel would end up in number 10 with Tony Blair, drinking champers and aperitifs. How the jilted generation must be sobbing into their realisation of the grand illusion that they all succumbed to.
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Like any youth culture it fades and is replaced by a new one. The ghosts of our neo-liberal past will continue to crop up from time to time, to remind us of what fools we’ve been. Some maybe even release the odd tune for us to reminisce over, only to realise that it’s worse than their previous attempt. One things for sure generation x can only recount the errors of their journey to a soundtrack that fell short of being anything more than sad background noise.
Mark Scott
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