Apple Music has its share of big-name supporters from the world of music, but Oasis’ Noel Gallagher isn’t one of them.
The outspoken musician — who has taken issue with just about every topic under the sun at some time or other — criticized Apple Music for its Beats 1 radio station and its “Connect” feature.
“Apple Music, world radio: Is that some sort of George Orwell s**t going on?” he said during an interview on the Varvet International podcast. “How can you be so arrogant that you can say, ‘We now f***ing own world radio’?”
Regarding Connect, which lets fan get closer access to their favorite artists, Gallagher said, “Who cares what f***ing Thom Yorke is up to? Seriously, who gives a s**t? I’d find it creepy if everyone wanted to know what I was up to.”
Gallagher has more or less stayed in the public eye for the past decade through his controversial comments. He has particularly blasted the idea of streaming music, which he continued to do in this recent interview.
“If you tell me now that the record-buying era is over, that makes me sad,” Noel said. “That the culture of buying and believing in a record, that era is over, and the belief is that music is for hire and for rent, the money that you pay lets you access everybody’s music but own none of it: I think that’s a sad day.”
How streaming music leads to fans not “believing in a record” isn’t made clear, but given Tim Cook’s pro-privacy approach to user data, Apple probably isn’t the right company to accuse of “some George Orwell s**t” either.
Back in June, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich said he “feels safe” with Apple Music.
Via: The Guardian
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
15 responses to “Oasis’ Noel Gallagher slates Apple Music for its arrogance”
The reason why they are “renting” music is because it’s cheaper and most of the kids these days don’t listen to much music that’s worth owning since it’s mostly recycled, programmed and synthesized crap created by people that really aren’t musicians.
You beautiful bastard. That was Comment of the year!
“Oasis’ Noel Gallagher slates Apple Music for its arrogance”
“Slates?” Looks like an autocorrect issue there. In any case, Noel Gallagher •slamming• Apple looks like nothing more than an attempt to get some badly needed media attention.
From the Oxford Dictionary of English: “Slate: (British informal) criticise severely”
Ah, my mistake. In that case, the use of a rarely used “British formal” word only makes it pretentious instead of incorrect.
Nah, “slams” would have been better.
Is this guy mentally disabled? I feel sorry for him.
I would as well. I’ve been using Spotify for about six years. Apple Music brings nothing new. I do use iTunes to rip my CDs and sync my iPod, but Apple Music irritated me from the moment Drake got on stage at WWDC. No thanks.
I like Apple Music, but I tend to agree with Noel Gallagher in this one.
I guess in the end we’ll see if this new model will allow musicians to have a career or become hobbyist and get a real job.
Noel still thinks he’s an angry young man. He’s not. If he can show me where Apple said it now owned world radio because of Beats 1, I’ll symbolically repurchase the concert ticket I didn’t get to use when Oasis broke up before coming to Australia back in the ’90’s.
He and his brother have no problem selling their crappy music through iTunes.
Noel hates everything and once in a while rants about it to feel relevant. Where’s the news again?
I think most people don’t actually understand the whole ‘streaming’ deal entirely with Apple Music. The music files are DRM-protected, and only will allow play as long as your subscription is active. That means, in essence, you do not own the music files you download from Apple Music. The minute you don’t pay for the month, your whole music library you downloaded from ‘Apple Music’ becomes 100% defunct. It’s all DRM-protected. Frankly, I think digital music is a joke unless you are going to offer studio quality, uncompressed 1411kbps AIFF audio for download…everything else is compressed and you have some degree of loss in quality from the original master, which, yes, IS NOTICEABLE!! I cannot believe up to this day that iTunes has not offered a service that delivers full uncompressed raw copies of music files, yes they would likely be 70-80MB per file….but services like Beatport do offer this, and the quality does matter…in the age of multi-terabyte drives, file size should not matter. Average household bandwidth has far exceeded what it was in 2004. An uncompressed file can be downloaded by most users in under one minute, and the quality improvement is astronomical. With Apple’s massive data centers, surely they can handle this. It’s time!!
Yeah right. 1411 kbps AIFF files are REALLY great for cellular data limits, and most countries do not have great data services at all. FFS, it’s the 21st century. To even hear the difference you’d need to have a $600 pair of headphones and then some. Most people use what is convenient, ear buds, and wouldn’t notice any difference. You are in the absolute minority, and to music streaming services, you are totally irrelevant. Next you’ll be telling us we should all be using DOS again.
I disagree with his statement regarding “owning music”. We never owned music. We bought an album or CD with a license to listen to it. If we owned it we could use it for public entertainment purposes and such, which we can’t. And I don’t believe Apple said that they “own world radio”. Internet radio has been around for a long time.
This oldfag is a burned-out drunk hasbeen with a “get off my lawn” perspective that is just mad because no one gives a shit about any song written after Wonderwall. Its a wonder he matters at all…