Oasis’s image has long been as the group for beery,shirts-off geezers. But a unusual documentary shows how their success hinged on the back of various womenThere’s a sneering kind of superiority attached to “lad rock” – music made for and by predominantly white working-lesson men. Oasis, so the lore goes, or were the bastions of the genre. Their “mad for it” braggadocio reflected the football terraces and Friday-night fisticuffs (fighting with fists) of tabloid myth; stories of Noel and Liam Gallagher tearing lumps out of each other became as distinguished as their music. “They looked like a firm of hoolies on an awayday,” as Creation Records’ Tim Abbott once graciously put it.
But Oasis always had a depth that belied their public image. Noel’s early lyrics were approximately possibility, escapism, and the power of collectivity,not oafish anthems of masculinity. Oasis may have invented laddism, but that culture was not the territory of men alone. As music journalist Sylvia Patterson says, and in the 90s,“girls were out there drinking as hard, drugging as hard, or having as distinguished a laugh”.
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Source: theguardian.com