i'm not really gonna comment too much on the whole jay-z glastonbury 'controversy' cos on the whole its totally pathetic but i will say that it's symptomatic of the current pop culture that people are shocked and appalled by jay-z despite the fact that he's been around for about twelve years. are they so stuck in the past, so attached to their guitar bands that someone like jay-z can genuinely shake things up? not got enough to think about, my friends...

it's reasurringly typical of noel gallagher to rise up from nowhere and be the official face of this boring, ideological conservatism. the phrase he used-"if it ain't broke, don't fix it"-pretty much sums up why all his records are so shit to me.

all i'll say is that if noel gallagher had any real say in what music was allowed to get somewhere and what was "just wrong" i'd kill myself pretty quickly.