Oasis Don’t Look Back In Anger, Masculinity & Learning to Forgive

<p>With <em>Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger</em> arriving in cinemas, Stephen looks at Liam and Noel Gallagher, the sixteen-year feud that kept them apart, and what their reunion might tell us about masculinity, friendship, pride and forgiveness.</p><p>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.</p><p>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. Yet when Oasis finally returned to the stage, reconciliation didn’t arrive through some grand emotional conversation.</p><p>This is an episode about Oasis, masculinity and what happens when the things we once needed to prove stop mattering.</p><p>The Last Mixed Tape is a music and culture podcast exploring the stories, ideas and contradictions hiding underneath the songs we love.</p><p><br></p>