Jay-Z Covers Oasis’ “Wonderwall” at Glastonbury
A few months back Noel Gallagher of Oasis remarked to the press that he felt it was wrong for Jay-Z or any hip-hop artist to be headlining the main stage at Glastonbury. Jay-Z, in turn, responded back in the press by defending hip-hop in general.
When Jay-Z’s set commenced, he strapped on a Fender strat and “strummed” along to Wonderwall by Oasis and proceeded to sing the song very out of key, as a sort of “screw you” to Noel Gallagher.
Now, I feel like I should comment on this after having read some people’s responses on sites like Stereogum. It is kind of cool that he came out and basically mocked the Oasis song, but he obviously can’t actually play guitar and it just looked stupid seeing him pretend to play. Also, they just put on the album version and he sang along to it, like someone would in their car.
I dont know, to me it just seems lame. Jay-Z did get a lot of great critical response from the performance, but also some critics saying it started to wain mid-way through. To me, this kind of proves Noel Gallagher’s point in a way. Not that hip-hop shouldn’t be a festivals, but that in my opinion, hip-hop just isn’t very good live.
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I watched it out of curiosity to see what all the fuss was about. Is it supposed to be music for people with sort attention spans, becuase nearly every song seemed to be no longer than 1 minute long. It was a very bitty, fragmented performance. Not really bad, but somehow very unsatisfying.
On one hand I can understand where Noel was coming from in terms of what kind of music the festival usually is about…however, shit changes, and I think what Jay did was hilarious!
Who the heck is Noel Gallagher… I mean is he out selling records on a regular basis.. at least one a year, strong ones, great ones even?!?! Touring everywhere? So no matter how lame that may have been, who cares. Noel is lame at the moment. Has been for a while. There was one great Oasis album… they in no way become officials on anything. We can praise them, but they can’t dictate who plays where. They are less than 1% of what is music culture. Plus, Jay Z is part of a genre that has spread through the world, kept the music industry going, and probably made money for the people that had to subsidized the last couple Oasis records seeing how they spend so much.
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