My man Toshi and I discussed the new Oasis single on the way to the opening concert of the band's world tour at Yokohama Arena last Tuesday. What is Noel Gallagher telling people to "let out" in the chorus of "Go Let It Out?" I think he's talking about people's illusions of the real world, how you've got to let them go and then take in every experience just as it is. Toshi thinks he's talking about his cat.
Toshi means well, but he can't really appreciate Noel's cerebral wordplay. Some people are worse. They complain about the title of the new album, "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants." They say that's impossible. If there's more than one giant, then there has to be more than one shoulder.
Come on, man! Don't they know that Noel could not be Noel without his working class Manchester background, and that the most precious thing to a proud Mancunian is the right to be ungrammatical?