One of the anthems of the nineties is Don’t Look Back in Anger who just turned 25. What do you remember from the moment you wrote it?
“I wrote it in Paris after a night in a strip club. So Sally could be a stripper, who knows … The next day I was playing her and I realized she was “good”, but nothing more. The amazing thing is that I wrote that, Wonderwall e Supernova Champagne in the same month. Only one of those in life would be enough to make you a legend ». (in the photo Ansa, the britpop group of Oasis in 2005: from left, Gem Archer, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher and Andy Bell) Streaming has hurt the music industry as bad as Covid has hurt everyday life. People no longer buy music, they don’t own it, they don’t have the same deep relationship with it that we had as kids … “
The word britpop who identified you, Blur, Oasis, Pulp, Verve and all the rock movement that conquered the world bothered her?
“It was just great rock music. I wouldn’t have given any name, but the media need it to define genres: punk, acid house … ».
Better now, that gender barriers are gone?
«Streaming has hurt the music industry as bad as Covid has done everyday life. People no longer buy music, they don’t own it, they don’t have the same deep relationship with it that we had as kids. Back then the records were part of what you were, today music is just something that kids listen to ».
The English one no longer colonizes the world. At the Eurovision Song Contest your competitor even got zero points …
«I don’t know the event … The guitar bands are still there. The problem is not the guitar yes or no, but that there are no more beautiful songs. My children force me to hear terrible things, and I see that they are written by an army of authors. They are today’s tastes, welcome to one fucking new era».
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