Oasis Don’t Look Back In Anger is a Story About Men Learning to Forgive Each Other
The Last Mixed Tape
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What if the Oasis reunion isn’t really a story about getting the band back together but about two men learning how to forgive each other?
With Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger arriving in cinemas this weekend, I look at Liam and Noel Gallagher, the feud that kept them apart for sixteen years, and what their reunion might tell us about masculinity, friendship, pride and forgiveness.
Oasis embodied a particular kind of masculinity in the 1990s. Swagger, aggression, emotional armour and the refusal to back down. But beneath all of that, their music gave a generation of young men permission to feel something they didn’t always have the language for.
Now Liam and Noel are approaching 60. They’ve spent years fighting, refusing to speak and trying to prove they didn’t need each other. And yet, when Oasis finally returned to the stage, reconciliation didn’t arrive through some grand emotional conversation.
This is an essay about Oasis, masculinity and what happens when the things we once needed to prove stop mattering.
Perhaps forgiveness doesn’t mean pretending nothing happened. Perhaps it means deciding that what happened doesn’t get to decide what happens next.
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00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Liam & Noel on Coming Back Together
00:46 - What If Oasis Is Really About Forgiveness?
01:49 - Oasis, Masculinity & the Art of Not Caring
07:16 - What Does Positive Masculinity Actually Look Like?
07:52 - The Class Ceiling: Why Oasis Still Matters
11:00 - What We Can Learn From the Oasis Reunion
13:02 - Don’t Look Back in Anger
13:45 - End
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It was beautiful. No apologies or anything. It was like they both said everything without saying anything.
And that interview at the end was the best. Liam being goofy Liam and Noel laughing and smiling with a look of pride in his eyes… brilliant.
Apparently the answer is yes!
Seeing how meaningful this is to people, and especially thinking of it through the lens with which you discuss it, I might even try to catch it in the theaters.
I honestly expected this reunion would have imploded by now, and I'm vaguely glad that it hasn't. It's been a long time since I found that kind of behaviour entertaining, hopefully they're genuinely past it too.
It's "Deceptively" and "Deceitive".
That's only "Self-conveniently thinking", "Self-justificationly thinking", and "Self-confidencely thinking".
There is an Japanese song "Sadness Likes Fallen Snow" singed by Shogo Hamada,
I think this song maybe similar to "Don't Look Back In Anger".
I think "forgiveness song" is..., "Whatever".
I still don't know what kind of the story about this movie is, until when I watch this movie.
...I would rather like to watch, or consider and survey, about "Shape of My Heart" by Sting.
These are two men with a few slightly above-average songs who have made a living by keeping themaelves in the public eye with bad behavior, arguments and silly, tragic "toxic masculinity."
And the worst part is people give them money for it instead of using their little money to do something for the common good.
Well, maybe it will be worthwhile in THE LONG RUN if people learn how to love God and love one another and behave differently out of it somehow...
Oasis Don’t Look Back In Anger is a Story About Men Learning to Forgive Each Other
The Last Mixed Tape
11,044 views
What if the Oasis reunion isn’t really a story about getting the band back together but about two men learning how to forgive each other?
With Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger arriving in cinemas this weekend, I look at Liam and Noel Gallagher, the feud that kept them apart for sixteen years, and what their reunion might tell us about masculinity, friendship, pride and forgiveness.
Oasis embodied a particular kind of masculinity in the 1990s. Swagger, aggression, emotional armour and the refusal to back down. But beneath all of that, their music gave a generation of young men permission to feel something they didn’t always have the language for.
Now Liam and Noel are approaching 60. They’ve spent years fighting, refusing to speak and trying to prove they didn’t need each other. And yet, when Oasis finally returned to the stage, reconciliation didn’t arrive through some grand emotional conversation.
This is an essay about Oasis, masculinity and what happens when the things we once needed to prove stop mattering.
Perhaps forgiveness doesn’t mean pretending nothing happened. Perhaps it means deciding that what happened doesn’t get to decide what happens next.
🎵 THE LAST MIXED TAPE
If you enjoyed this video, subscribe for more music documentaries, cultural essays and deep dives into the stories behind the music.
00:00 - Intro
00:20 - Liam & Noel on Coming Back Together
00:46 - What If Oasis Is Really About Forgiveness?
01:49 - Oasis, Masculinity & the Art of Not Caring
07:16 - What Does Positive Masculinity Actually Look Like?
07:52 - The Class Ceiling: Why Oasis Still Matters
11:00 - What We Can Learn From the Oasis Reunion
13:02 - Don’t Look Back in Anger
13:45 - End
#Oasis #DontLookBackInAnger #LiamGallagher #NoelGallagher #podcast
And has music ever given you a way to say something you couldn’t quite say yourself?
I’d genuinely love to hear your thoughts.