Noel Gallagher Blames Music Decline On 'Friends' & Coffee

Don’t ask Noel Gallagher about whether Rachel should have gotten on that plane or who his favourite character in Friends is, because he has nothing nice to say. He also despises “coffee shop culture” that he believes arose while the show was originally airing.

The Flying Birds frontman eviscerated the popular sitcom in a recent sit-down with the Daily Star. The publication reported him saying, “Sitting around in sweaters drinking overpriced coffee and talking about nonsense.”

He elaborated, “Since the rise of the coffee shop, culture has disappeared. People are horrified that they have to pay for music! But $20 for two coffees, oh, absolutely. I haven’t got the brain capacity to process this.”

Friends and coffee shops have been on Noel Gallagher’s mind since 2018.

In an interview with NPR, he stated: “I blame Friends [for] the rise of the coffee shop. Since the rise of the coffee shop, culture has disappeared, don’t you think? People are horrified that they have to pay for music. Music! But $20 for two coffees, ‘Oh, absolutely’.

“I feel like the resistance to pay for music came after people got used to that. Maybe it’s that they got used to spending a lot on commodities that feel like culture – like coffee – and then changed their financial priorities. Or maybe it’s that, all of a sudden, music was free.”

Last month, Gallagher’s brother, Liam, answered “It’s happening” when a fan on Twitter asked if Oasis would reunite.

Noel Gallagher addressed the tweet in an interview with France Inter and commented, “Yeah, I understand it, yeah. No one has really come along to take our place. He should get his people to call my people. He's got my number, he's got my manager's number. Call us. But you know what? He won't call.”

Liam, of course, seemed enraged by his brother and posted on Twitter, “Here's how I see it the little fella aka potato has done a lot of damage to Oasis as a band / brand he's got a lot of making up to do not just to me but to you the fans the people that put us where we are today as you were.”