On Living Forever
I'm watching the recent Oasis documentary on the Live 25 tour which I was fortunate to attend when they played in Chicago. Similarly to how I was at the show, I'm tearing up while watching this. Oasis has an extremely unique spot in music and what they mean to millions of people. There are (at least) two takeaways from the Oasis reunion and what we've seen from it. The first is the proof of their timeless music, how it alone drives this sense of community of the struggle of the regular person living hard and living fast, but living together. The shows and crowds revealed this. Thousands and thousands of strangers looking like brothers in arms. "You're the outcast, you're the underclass, but you don't care cause you're living fast" The second takeaway is about the responsibility of artists. Noel and Liam are so unbelievably full of themselves yet they really seemed to have forgotten how important their music and their band is to millions. Their mu...
