Here, let me play it for you.Ī: See, now you're putting me on. And I think Heathen Chemistry's instrumental, "A Quick Peep," is the purest example of Oasis' musicality.
But the lyrics are just one aspect of any musical piece.
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Q: That of the hedonistic rock star, head full of cocaine, bemoaning his lifestyle of promiscuous sex and striving for an easy quasi-spirituality?Ī: Yeah, sure. lyrics, as clunky as they are, still reflect a certain point of view. The lead single, "The Hindu Times," revolves around one of Oasis' favorite topics with the chorus, "I get so high I just can't feel it." Songs like "Little by Little" show that the brothers are growing up, though, expressing thoughts like, "We the people fight for our existence/ We don't claim to be perfect but we're free," and bemoaning that "my God woke up on the wrong side of His bed." But the most frequently touched upon topic is that of the woman who done them wrong, such as the harpy in "Force of Nature" who is castigated for "smoking all my stash/ And burning all my cash."Ī: No, wait a second, you had to have made that last one up. Q: While we're listening, I'll quote some lyrics- I'd like to hear how they fit in with your theory. They replaced the rest of the band, but they still lead, in their quarrelsome way.Ī: Well, since I haven't heard the album, I can't really intelligently comment on it. Q: No, the Gallaghers are still together. It came out last week.Ī: Didn't they break up or something? I thought I heard on VH1 or somewhere that the brothers weren't speaking to each other. There are a lot of people out there who don't care how much Oasis cops from the Beatles though, they just want to hear a good song they can sing along to. "Wonderwall," "Champagne Supernova," "Supersonic " good stuff, but universally panned for being too derivative. Q: Well, if I may give you another musical example, what would you say about a band like Oasis?Ī: That's another band that critics turn their nose up to, but they have some great songs. Journey is reviled by music critics everywhere, but my brother and I love driving down the coast singing along to "Any Way You Want It" at the top of our lungs. To use a musical example, take the band Journey. Who is anybody to judge the relative worth of an artistic product? And it's ironic, because by writing a criticism, the critic him- or herself is also making art! But criticism is hopelessly subjective, one person's opinion can't possibly take into account how every single person would perceive a given piece. Q: So by extension, criticism is irrelevant?Ī: That's right. The guy at the bar doing a herky-jerky dance to Billy Joel on the jukebox- that's modern dance, whether he knows it or not. A teenager's doodles in social studies class- that's fine art.
Any endeavor that strives to be art necessarily involves a certain amount of effort and thought, and thus has meaning regardless of skill level, originality, or audience appreciation.
So nowadays I say All Art is Good Art.Ī: Yeah, it seems like a bold statement, but it's really not that crazy. But the more I've thought about it, the more it makes sense. She always used to say that there's no such thing as bad art, which, for many years, I just wrote off as a meaningless self-esteem booster. A: Yes, and it's gotten me in quite a bit of trouble.Ī: Well, first of all, it's not the most original of ideas.
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