Is that a conclusion?! “You won’t get the girl you want/ But you get the girl you need.” If Liam Gallagher was proving his wisdom of age, one can only hope his current wife doesn’t pay attention to lyrics. But in “More Power”, the opening piece of his third solo work, the attitude quickly becomes clear with the help of the children’s choir, which sings on the topic: Here an adult talks about mistakes he made as a young man, as a son, maybe as a brother.
Lennon/McCartney float above everything
And which he now, presumably being treated, sees differently: “Mother, I admit that I was angry for too long,” Gallagher sings and even includes the absent father: “Father, I can see so many things now that you’re gone .” On “C’mon You Know” an extremely conciliatory ex-rebel shows what remains musically of the wild times. That’s not a little: As usual, the ubiquitous search for “Wonderwall” 3.0 calls out of atmospheric ballads, “I’m Free” combines dub rhythms with dirty guitars. And above all Lennon/McCartney, because they wrote Liam Gallagher’s manual.
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