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Nostalgic scam
They are replenishing a bank account on the nostalgia of their fans. Now in their fifties and supposedly patched up, the Gallagher brothers are smoothing out their glory for a series of concerts planned for the summer of 2025. Nineties Beatles or marketing anomaly, the dirty kids of Britpop have caused a riot worthy of the most opportunistic flea markets.
28.08.2024, 16:5628.08.2024, 17:03
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It’s an epidemic. And the virus is affecting every organ of the entertainment industry. When the cinema isn’t giving us yet another Indiana Jones or Ghostbustershe makes money from notable deaths by fomenting biopics that would make Père-Lachaise cry.
When music stars aren’t revisiting their own masterpieces, they’re awakening their little retired rocker hearts, hoping that that old leather jacket won’t make them too fat. A new album? You think… too risky. Most of the time, a tour is put together, often gigantic, overpriced, limited in time and sold as the return of a messiah that no one was calling for out loud.
Among forty-somethings around the world, on the other hand, it’s such an earthquake that one would think that a new armchair by Le Corbusier had just been discovered in a flea market in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.
Alas, what looks like a nostalgia scam is logically making the many children of the nineties salivate. The same ones who have long since swapped their denim jackets for the diapers of the last one. As we know, the past has no price, except the price of a concert ticket and the prospect of not being able to get one.
While the prices for this wheelbarrow of British concerts will not be known until this Saturday, when the gold rush begins, fans are already preparing to mortgage their grandmother’s old hovel.
“I expect the ticket price to be a few hundred pounds, and I’ll probably pay for it with a credit card”
A fan at the media Bloomberg.
A trap so well laid that public opinion is gargling without batting an eyelid with the idea that the brothers have finally reconciled. Liam and Noel, more gifted at exchanging broken bottles than ideas for choruses, have always composed (and sung) at the ends of a ring on which they carefully spit on each other’s hits.
An attitude of offspring from the suburbs of Manchester that made their fortune, but which today clashes with this false ambition of naively celebrating the return of a bygone era. That of guitar rock, broken down hotel rooms and frankness in interviews. The nice Harry Styles, whom they hate copiously, took over with a Colgate smile that Noel and Liam never needed to display to sell records.
Let there be no misunderstanding: Oasis definitely deserve their place in the Britpop pantheon, and not just for rocking out at school dances with Wonder wallThe most inspired and profitable lazy and nasal voices in the music business have consoled millions of spotty kids: four short months after Kurt Cobain’s suicide, the siblings released their first and best album, Definitely Maybe. (Definitely, maybe.)
A title that sums up the borderline existence of a gang that you would think came straight out of a (good) Guy Ritchie film. But this microwaved, profit-driven retrospective, which will never surpass their sanctification at Wembley too many decades ago, is a middle finger to the fans. Even when they are immensely joyful, once in the stands.
If money willingly does without feelings, collective creativity requires tolerating the ego of the neighbor. And the Gallagher brothers are too rich (and too old) for that.
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