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"he writes all those words for me to sing, like “Noel’s gonna tell you what you’re gonna do” and “I wish I wasn’t me” and I still sing them."

ugh I always wondered how Liam felt about this type of lyrics, especially when I first heard it's good to be free, I love the song, yet I couldn't believe Noel freaking made Liam sing his own thoughts and feelings on their conflict/why he left him, how over-powering...

To me that confirms that while Liam still sings the song like he meant every word, he may still get crushed inside while doing so.

In the white room live, you can see that for once Liam blatantly ignores Noel, while Noel tries to turn towards him.

Liam and I went off for a drink.

‘See what happened then?’ he said. ‘That’s what happens all the time. That’s why people say we’re always fighting. I’m just standing up for myself. He thinks it’s his band and we’re all supposed to be sheep. The rest of them go along with it, but I’m not going to. I mean, if he told them all to turn up tomorrow because we were going to play a gig under a lamp post, they’d just do it. I’d ask him, “Why are we playing up a lamp post. Can’t we play a stadium or something?” […]’

And, while he wasn’t denying the importance of Noel in shaping the band’s sound, he wasn’t about to give his brother sole credit.

‘We’re not just old Bartholomew’s backing band like he sometimes thinks. I mean, he wouldn’t have joined if I hadn’t been there in the first place. If he hadn’t joined we might’ve been shit or we might’ve ended up being good. I wrote three songs back then and I admit two of them were shit. The other one was all right, though. And I wrote the chorus to “Columbia”. I’m not useless. […]’

Would Noel welcome the creative input from him?

‘No, of course he fucking wouldn’t. I remember I said to him, “If I’d came up to you and I’d written something as good as ‘Hey Jude’ - I know it’s not likely, but if I had - would you let us record it?” And he went, “No, I’d quit.” It really hurt when he said that. I mean he writes all those words for me to sing, like “Noel’s gonna tell you what you’re gonna do” and “I wish I wasn’t me” and I still sing them. I don’t complain about that to him because I know he writes brilliant songs, but I don’t think he should just ignore my ideas.

‘It’s like when we were on the last tour. I had an idea for backing vocals on one of the songs, but when I told him, he just went, “No, that’s shit.” Then when we did the song, he started doing backing vocals just like I’d said. I went, “I’d told you that would be good,” but he went, “No, they were different backing vocals.” He’s just too proud to admit that I’m right sometimes.

‘There’s only a few songwriters that really inspire me. People like John Lennon and Paul Weller. And Noel’s up there with them. I’m not going to pretend he isn’t. I’d just wish he’d remember sometimes that Oasis is a band.’

- “Take me There: OASIS - The Story” by Paul Mathur (p. 151-153)