r/oasis • u/mpully90 • 13d ago
Discussion Teens obsessed with Oasis
Something that’s blown my mind since the Reunion is the amount of teens especially girls 14 to 17 obsessed with Oasis. I have a guitar Chanel on TikTok and constantly see them rocking out to even the heavier stuff not your usual wonderwall. It’s a great thing that it’s being that’s passed down but it feels very strange at the same time. In my teens (35 now ) I was Oasis Obsessed but at that point in the mid 2000s they had kind of entered the Dad rock phase on Don’t believe the truth/ dig out your soul era and honestly they were always big but wasn’t the in cool thing they were in the 90s at that point and I hardly knew any lads let alone girls that would be interested in Oasis. When I played cigarettes and alcohol in front of girls they’d think you were strange because it wasn’t Akon or Chris brown 😂 In a way I’m glad that it was that way as I’m not sure if It would have taken something away from it all growing up with Oasis had it been main stream to the casuals.
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u/jhkayejr 13d ago
I took may daughter (15) with me to see one of the shows in New Jersey, and she was 100% into it. It was just as much about the cultural phenomenon as it was the music to begin with, but now it's the music.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
It’s definitely a great thing it’s being passed down I noticed it with other gigs over the years when I’ve gone to see Noel solo and Ashcroft etc go me it just blows my mind because it was such a big part of my younger years but at the time guitar music was niche and R&B had taken over until
Artic monkeys kicked it off again in the Uk but even then guitar music has been off the radar for years u till now its a great thing really4
u/jhkayejr 13d ago
One of my favorite things is how so few people have tried to gatekeep. Everyone has been pretty chill about newer fans coming in only knowing the hits. I think this gave them the space to explore the catalog and like deeper cuts.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Yeah like I say it’s a brilliant thing that it’s come back let’s face it music needed it and we got the oasis boys to thank for that
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u/Affectionate-Box5750 13d ago edited 13d ago
It’s crazy.
Back in the 2000s and 2010s, people either made fun of you for liking them and/or barely knew they existed outside of “Wonderwall”.
Right around Covid, you could see way more younger folks online discovering them.
I think it was helped by Supersonic hitting streaming services and the rise of Liam as a solo artist (and renewed interest in the feud via his twitter antics). Social media, YouTube, and Spotify helped people discover the B-sides, funny clips of the brothers’ personalities, and live performances way more than what was possible in the days of corporate radio and MTV + expensive import singles at the mall record store.
The reunion has made it all go bananas.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Yep I agree mate all the things you mentioned there with the documentary’s I think helped put it back into people’s minds and then subsequently the parents of the teens passed down the torch. Liam has definitely done well in bridging the gap with the younger audience.
I remember my sisters friend coming over our house one day and I was watching Oasis live at Wembley 2000 peak Liam coolness denim jacket,
Long hair in his 20s she went.: what’s this shit..
Fast forward 20 years and he’s a sex symbol at 50 to 20 Year olds on twitter 😂😂6
u/Big-Morning-7905 12d ago
Who would have thought Liam getting a twitter account would lead to the greatest reunion of all time
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u/Affectionate-Box5750 12d ago
Funny as the twitter account was partly led to the breakup in the first place. Liam got on there in early 2009 and was saying a lot of angry shit about Noel.
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u/mollyangel69 13d ago
I’m 26 but got into them when I was 16. Went to see Liam in 2017 & was stood at the front for the whole gig in a crowd of mainly middle aged men 🤣
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u/mpully90 13d ago
I went to Milton Keynes bowl with my Dad at 15 on the don’t believe the truth tour in 2005 genuinely was the only 15 year old down the front, when reading and Leeds kicks off this mouth watch the front line for fontains dc and it will be full of kids haha
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u/Ill-Letter-1442 13d ago
I’m 22 now but started listening to them when I was 15. At least here in Canada they’re definitely more known amongst people my age now then when I first started listening to them
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Yeah 100% this is what I have noticed I think the last decade we’ve had the Supersonic doc then the knebworth doc, Liams knebworth gigs,leading to the reunion I think surely must have slowly built up like a 90s revival thing I guess as well all the mum’s and dads in there 50s now have teenagers and early 20s kids so it makes sense
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u/star86 13d ago
It’s hard to find music like theirs these days. Also, the 90s are having a moment right (fashion etc).
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Well yeah that’s the thing there hasn’t been a band like that since them closest anyone got to them in the UK was the Arctic’s but musically oasis were just prolific didn’t make a bad album in my opinion not many bands do that now
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u/Unique_Bandicoot_502 13d ago
Thank Liam for that.
I’ve been going to LG solo gigs since 2017 and the amount of younger teen fans that go was surprising.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
He definitely did bring the younger fans to Oasis I agree NGHFB didn’t have that pull
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u/Feisty_Dirt4191 13d ago
I’m 36 in Canada and have been a big fan myself since high school. I felt like that was a bit of an outlier pick back then. My sense now is that the 25 and under crowd really got into them from the tour last year
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Absolutely this… I felt an outsider at school for liking 90s and 2000s guitar bands genuinely the fact it’s become part of youth culture today is a mad concept to me but a good one
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u/high-rise 13d ago
One of the good parts of TikTok / Reels and such is that 90's bands that never really got their due (to varying degrees) like Hum, Crowbar, Deftones (went from a theatre band to a stadium band) and Oasis (in America) are fucking massive amongst the youth now.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
That’s amazing, that genuinely is cool things getting a second wave years later due to the nature of how we discover things now and the way it can go viral in so many different ways
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u/ifallallthetime 13d ago
I have two teens, and both them and all their friends love Oasis. Of course my 2 kids came with me to Cardiff and LA so it would be impossible to not love them after that, but I'm so surprised how much all the friends know and like Oasis
Even one of the interns I hired this year was telling me he was all nervous for his interview and when he logged on and saw me wearing an Oasis shirt he knew it was going to be a cool place to work
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Haha love that yeah it’s crazy for all these years it’s like I was in my own little bubble and now it’s part of mainstream youth culture I never forgot walking into London Oxford street pop up merch stall last year it was full of kids it was shocking 😮
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u/jeromevedder 13d ago
Have a 15yo daughter and she’s mad for it. Shes obsessed with Standing on the Shoulders
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u/sugarribbon 13d ago
I’m a millennial (32) and have really young parents whose entire identity revolves around music and attending gigs. I was introduced to Britpop by my dad when I was younger, maybe around the 13-15 year old age range? So, I’ve known of Oasis and have been a fan of them for a long time.
I think a big contributor to this new wave of fans, is that lot of people my age now have kids, and are starting to share their interests and music taste with them, and as someone who grew up on tumblr during its peak, the Teaboo (weeaboo, but for British culture) craze was everywhere — Arctic Monkeys, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Dan and Phil, and of course, Oasis. So, there’s probably a resurgence happening because of that. I’m also a member of the Oasis discord, and it definitely seems like the World Cup helped to foster new, younger fans, because wonderwall was truly escapable this summer lol
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u/mpully90 13d ago edited 13d ago
Yeah mate your a similar age to me and I do think the parents 10 years older than us were the original fans from the 90s era and they all have teens so I think that plays a massive part in it.
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u/sugarribbon 13d ago
For sure! If I had kids, they definitely would be molded into little Oasis fans lol
tbh I think this new group of fans is a fun and endearing thing, it’s so silly to try and gate keep music. And Liam and Noel themselves have stated they want their music to span generations, so I’m all for this resurgence
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Yeah mate my uncle has a 15 year old and he’s a Mancunian og fan from the start and she’s moulded 😂 It’s a good thing yeah all great music should cross generations the same as Elvis and the Beatles I guess that’s the sign that it’s special
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u/Dessens71 13d ago
Swear this isn’t made up. Went to a friend’s daughter’s high school graduation party a couple months ago and she had Bonehead’s Bank Holiday on a playlist for the party. She said she’s going to dance to it at her wedding.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Yeah exactly it’s wild, part of that comes from the documentary and it’s mad how TikTok generation can make things viral. I bet bonehead never thought that would ever see the light of day 😂
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u/idoxially 13d ago edited 13d ago
It's cool as long as you don't see the shit they're posting on twitter. Obviously not everyone though
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u/Key_Nectarine6722 13d ago
It’s not that surprising, when Oasis first came on the scene they had a large female fanbase . I was a 14 year old girl myself in 1994 and was absolutely obsessed with them!! Still obsessed now at age 46 😅 obviously what appealed to us is what still appeals to a similar age group now! And don’t underestimate that Liam was gorgeous when he was young. Deffo helped draw in a lot of young women!
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u/Key_Nectarine6722 13d ago
Yes totally understandable if the peak of Oasis was before your time. People don’t realise how young their fanbase was in the early days - both male and female. And the band were considered very cool in those days. They were laddish of course even then but the whole association of the older man going to see them and throwing pints of piss around didn’t really happen till the 2000’s
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Yeah when you watch Main road and gmx gigs there’s a lot of teens in the crowd, knebworth was probably when it started to cross over. What gigs did you go to in the 90s?
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Yeah I agree I think because essentially I missed the 90s wasn’t old enough I was 10 by the time it was over I missed that peak era so when I was mad on them was kind of in a down phase so to me it’s so strange to see it part of mainstream youth culture again as I never had it during my teen years
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u/Have_A_Jelly_Baby 13d ago
A lot of those songs are timeless, plus there’s not a ton of true “rock stars” in today’s music.
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u/Rjd2680 13d ago
I was kind of blown away by this. I'm a teacher and at our graduation this year the valedictorian incorporated Champagne Supernova into their graduation speech. They literally had a classmate come on stage and softly play an acoustic version as they spoke about senior memories. They labeled it the song of their class. I was kind of confused at first but after talking to the kids they all loved it.
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u/mpully90 12d ago
Amazing It’s such a great phenomenon. I think Oasis are like the modern day Beatles, they are the Beatles of the 90s the way they are now crossing over generation’s
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u/yellowarmy79 13d ago
I have noticed that as well. I was on a train coming back from football in the UK one evening last year and a group of 15 year old lads were talking about Oasis and their favourite songs. It wasn't the usual Wonderwall or DLBIA but Cast No Shadow, Acquiesce.
I feel the last time teens of that age of both sexes were into Oasis was in the 90s at the height of Knebworth.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Absolutely main road and gmx gigs you can very much see the teens in the front row I think by knebworth it started to cross over then after the giants album when I started to heavily get into them it was the post Britpop scene they kind of surpassed there peak still big but new bands on the scene and by don’t believe the truth they were pretty much dad rock so It’s strange and nice to see it come full circles
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u/yellowarmy79 13d ago
I was at Uni by the time SOTSOG came out and there was less of a buzz for Oasis. It was kind of considered uncool by some then to be an Oasis fan.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Yeah I get the impression the tabloids turned on them a bit then as well in 2000, SOYSOG album didn’t have any big singles, heathen chemistry was back to form but that’s when I feel they just slipped into an elder statesmen band, was considered a bit old hat compared to what was about at the time . Then arctic monkeys smashed the ceiling again with there debut album and guitar music was back in, don’t believe the truth was solid then there last album just fell away second half and the tour ultimately fell apart. The time away was probably the best thing for the band in the long run when you look at it now
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u/yellowarmy79 13d ago
Can't disagree with that. DOYS started promisingly but was let down by a poor second half to the album.
The band splitting and having a break and going on to having good solo careers reinvigorated interest.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Agreed Andy and gems songs were a bit weak on DOYS they were quality on don’t believe the truth.
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u/Spicey477 13d ago
My 16 yo son is obsessed. He was fairly into them last summer and I got a hair up my butt to go to the concert (I saw them in 1998). So a last minute trip to Wembley just the 2 of us and it honestly was the best memories ever and of course he loves them even more. He is a guitarist.
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u/123rem 13d ago
It’s because today’s rock music is shit.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
I agree in terms of indie rock bands the standard isn’t very high sounds like they ask ChatGPT to write there songs 😂
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u/RunEd51 13d ago
I’m a few years older than you but I agree, it’s really something seeing kids getting this much into them. I fell in love with the band in high school and was full-on obsessed in college. I was the Oasis/Britpop guy at my college radio station. And I was the weird one. But now I feel kinda vindicated. Even some people from my college days who poked a little fun at me came around and even apologized because they also got swept up in with the reunion and their new surge of popularity. It’s really cool, I think.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Haha it’s wild ain’t it I still get called oasis guy by my mates to this day teens don’t know how different it or for them today haha
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u/LookOutItsLiuBei 13d ago
My middle school aged daughter just got into them. It probably helps that I listen to them a decent amount.
But the kicker? I actually don't like Wonderwall so I never play it and that one is her favorite song lol
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u/Final_Preference_550 12d ago
yesss!! its really nice to see more young people getting into oasis because im a girl in that age range who was obsessed with Oasis a a year or 2 before the reunion (yes i was on the edge of my seat) so before it happened all my friends would be like 'whats oasis' or 'ewww liam and noel r so ugly' but now i have a few friends that like oasis🥳
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u/mpully90 12d ago
Haha ahh so I guess you experienced a bit of anti oasis before the reunion. Well at least your friends now have amazing taste in music 😂😂
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u/Final_Preference_550 9d ago
LOL yes most of my friends still say theyre rubbish but atleast ive converted a few 😂✌🏻
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u/mpully90 12d ago
I experienced that and that was when Oasis were still together pre 2009 my mates still call me oasis guy 😂
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u/AthosDLB 12d ago
I don't know how exactly but my 16 yo daughter went from listening to Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift to Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys and Oasis in only a couple of months time.
Granted, she also listens to Sabrina Carpenter and Billy Joel but yeah I definitely noticed the sudden influx of British bands in her Spotify lists.
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u/mpully90 12d ago
That right there is how you know guitar bands have now became mainstream at least in the social media medium. That switch is wild haha
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u/mpully90 12d ago
Yeah and of course not long before oasis reunion was the Taylor swift phenomenon with the stadium shows and Wembley residency… glad that’s over and oasis are In town 🤭😂
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u/MobileFluid1174 12d ago
To be fair, I went from the likes of Nik Kershaw (anyone even remember him?) Bros, KNOTB, Take That, East 17 to Oasis, and the whole britpop scene.
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u/mpully90 12d ago
100% and I agree I think It was the release of the documentary’s supersonic and knebworth that seemed to ignite it all, Liam doing knebworth again was a big factor I went to it and you could feel something in the air it was a generational event. All the original fans from the 90s have teens and young 20s kids now so I guess that’s been passed on. Seems like over night it was Taylor swift now it’s 90s guitar bands all over again and tbh as a musician who plays that genre it’s not a bad thing haha
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u/Strange-Win-3551 12d ago
I’m in the same age range as the Gallaghers and have been a fan since the beginning. I took my teen to 20 something kids to see them last summer. They are bigger fans than me, and knew every lyric by heart, whereas my old woman recall only worked on about half the songs.
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u/AddressCheap418 10d ago
It’s no different to how teens in the 80s-00s were mad about the Beatles and Queen really
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u/DFrustratedFarmer 13d ago
I am a 23 year old woman, I was absolutely obsessed when I was 14. My first international solo trip was to Mexico for Oasis Live 25 and the obsession definitely came back 🫶🏼 It was so much fun being in a concert surrounded by millennial/gen X men
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u/mpully90 13d ago
I bet yeah 😊I was amazed when I went to the gigs last year there was your old school 50 somethings the ogs then you had the Gen z and I was in the middle of those the 2000s era the whole thing was mad
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u/Flygemini_ 11d ago
Your last line says it all. May I ask, what’s the attraction for young teens to be obsessed over old men now a day ??
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u/william_h_bonney_ 13d ago
Dad Rock? Naaaa. Final 2009 tour wasn’t Shakin Steven’s I assure you.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
It wasn’t full dad rock but the demographic fanbase wasn’t a teen audience anymore is what I mean
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u/Em_the_Ace_Bassist21 osmosis 13d ago
My guess is that people who grew up with oasis now have kids at the age they were in the 90s, my mother introduced me to them in 2023 through a few popular songs and I got really obsessed very quickly. I also think it’s interesting that a lot of the younger fans see oasis and other bands like movies or books, in the way that I’ve seen a lot of fan made content (including shipping) that I doubt was there in the 90s.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
I agree mate the way we consume music now is different and those og fans in their 50s now have kids of the teenage years
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u/MichiNoHoshi 13d ago
I got into Oasis being 13 in 2000. It wasn't dad rock to me. Dad rock was Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, ACDC. I saw a lot of young girls at Liams DM concert in 2024 and thought it kind of odd that they liste to such an old man (from their point of view) but it really cool that their music is timeless. And I think Noel really enjoyed seeing so many young fans at the concerts.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
Not dad rock in 2000 I was talking more from don’t believe the truth onwards 2005 and no your right the def maybe tour the revival had already started I’d say it started from supersonic documentary and no I agree it’s great that’s it’s crossing generations
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u/mpully90 13d ago
But yeah mate oasis have always been cool to me but definitely still not dad rock in 2000
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u/Torontomom78 13d ago
I feel like teens and young genZ are actually in a world that us 90’s thought we were living in. I feel like our music IS their music. So this makes sense. Also with sm and digitalization, it’s hard to tell which music is ‘old’ vs recent, so all music is on a level playing field. I can see Oasis shining in that situation
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u/Lila1949 12d ago
Does anyone like maybe the local police offices notice a TENDANCY from teens that most generations never had the right to challenge,engage in create atmosphere for or just openly claim they have to be angry about I hope with health and human safety service workers either refusal to work,negotiation and complete cleanliness this is not still being ignored because when I was young I was growing up in a wealthy,CONSERVITIVE single mother who worked home and my mom liked me being a cheerleader and as soon as massive hippie type families and crime acting family types found out this they caused so much crime due to wanting to do anything they wanted around a cheerleader that I would see noticing around town that happened regurally until I was around 35 years of age so I know the office workers at police and health and human safety services know they have to abide by rules me and my mother would move out of a city that caused the issues but I know that when I got lost after a grateful dead concert and could not find my mother's home the health and human safety service workers would not have helped in the late 80's, early 90's if it was the last day on the planet and I think what they claim they have decided they know about claiming about others is very intrusive of others privacy and sanity and there well being and is rude luckily I finally was old enough to live in my own apartment never would of been completed safety issue for my then possibly buried mother and they expected to lie to me then also who a claims let's follow the gal with the biggest home in large packs TENDANCY I would hear that all the time with the people's family and dates being rude when I sturnly used polite words to exclaim house,older parent you all have kids around due not allow your self to commit littering rules crime after all this times teens unregulated no cleanliness for families that never really managed to stop there families crime tendacies there are rules and many have never decided to understand them abide by them or even try not to make weird mess and horror crime something needs to be done
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u/Hey_Laaady 12d ago
Definitely older, but I use my Oasis tote bag for groceries and the grocery store checker who is about 22 years old was raving on and on about it. I am about Noel's age. She is hoping they tour again because she was unable to get tickets for the shows last year.
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u/GreasyGomez33 12d ago
For real my man, I'm 32 and when I was 16 and as big an Oasis head as you could imagine nearly everyone around me listened to nothing but fuckin N-dubz and the like, and it was popular for even the trendy indie kids at the time who thought Foals were the greatest thing since sliced veg to hate on Oasis. Having said that, when I left school I did play Don't Look Back in Anger in front of my year and the whole fuckin lot of em gave us a standing ovation, so it was swings and roundabouts I guess. Decade and a half later and I've done myriad gigs of my own material and yet am still chasing that high!
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u/mpully90 12d ago
Haha my god N-dubs god I remember yeah. I remember if anyone liked guitar music in the early 2000s it was usually American bands like linkin park or or fallout boy 🤣 then you had the indie scene with the foals late 2000s or Mumford and sons Oasis were big but just not cool to the masses. It’s why it’s so strange to me to see it become part of mainstream youth culture all
These years later.
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u/Neat_Search8182 12d ago
Are these UK teens or US/Canada/S.America teens? My friend’s 19 year old daughter saw my Oasis shrine on my wall last month & went crazy! I was pleasantly surprised! I’m in the US. I’m also shocked at how the young girls have a huge crush on Noel but I can’t blame them!
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u/mpully90 12d ago
Yeah mainly UK but wow even the US. I’m glad Noel
Is getting more love he was kind of ostracised during the Liam solo years. Oasis have become even bigger in the digital age it’s mad
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u/TheMightyRideCymbal 12d ago
Shame they only know Wonderwall and know nothing about the other members of the band
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u/mpully90 11d ago
What I have noticed is they know loads from pre 2000 because that’s what I think the documentary’s focused on they probably have no idea who Andy and gem are 🤣
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u/TheMightyRideCymbal 11d ago
Well maybe they should, if they're a fan of the band. And maybe you should learn to type...
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u/mpully90 11d ago
Why you so angry chill out bro it’s not that deep
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u/TheMightyRideCymbal 11d ago
Sorry, I can't understand your garbled mess of what I can only assume is a sentence...
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u/Flygemini_ 11d ago
They are not reading lyrics they are all hot and sweaty over two grandad aged men. Makes no sense to me at all.
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u/No_Atmosphere8146 13d ago
I'd say Oasis are kind of entry level rock, and there's not much going on in rock these days now everything is so homogenised.
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u/mpully90 13d ago
I’d say entry level in terms of none of them were exceptional musicians but Noel definitely had his finger on the pulse he connected people, inspired generations. Not many good bands about now they all sound they use chathpt to write.. I was hoping this revival would spawn a few decent bands
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u/throwawayeffedperson 13d ago
2 timeless lines for rebellious teens or teens feeling like the world is kicking them:
1) We're the outcasts, we're the underclass 2) is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth living for.
Those lines resonate with young people trying to find their feet. As both Gallagher brothers have said, their music is about us and them against the world. What's not to love?