How do you rebrand a shy guitarist as a solo artist?

Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger

• Authentic

• Nonchalent

• Manor House - rock and roll, heterosexual

• Popular -girls, voyerism 

• British - taxi, John Lennon, Hackney

• Intertexual references

Noel Ghallagher - Death of You and Me

What characters have we got?

• Noel as a star in text, writing lyrics, influences character, white shirt (pure), sunglassss (hiding himself), priest type character, religious figure

• Public in diner

• Waitress - wants to escape, bright uniform, shouldn't be in there, Noël pushes her in pool, dominant character

• Marching band

Is there any meaning?

•"Hero Sandwhich"

• Music come to save the waitress

• Washing away her cares

• "Thoughts of going under" - suicide, not pure anymore, baptism (water)

• Christ-like pose waitress makes - target audience, American Christians, hand on heart, good person

• Yonic symbol and she walks through door

• Hell symbol and she walks through the door

Can you spot any voyerism?

• Bands sexy outfits

• Waitress comes out of pool wet, short dress, close ups of legs

Relationship to sound:

• Horse in time to beat

• "Thoughts of going under" - goes under water

• "I can feel the storm clouds sucking at my soul" - horse and cart, weird procession

Setting:

• Old American Diner - branding of the song, "last chance" on window

• Motel

• Desert

Props:

• Diner

• Pool - pushed into pool, death, re-birth, baptism image, 

• Horse and cart - dark, old, vintage, villainous, threat is starting to

move into the waitresses life, rolls up as she reaches freedom, sells her soul, flirts with the devil/dark side

Theme:

• Western America

• Americana

How has this concept been developed?

Noel Ghallager - What A Life

Meaning:

• Fire - hell

• Devil - dark, persuasive, makes her look small, comical (Russel Brand), pervy, liar, evil British, trying to corrupt her soul

• Waitress - heart racing, resisting

• "Soulsucker" on camera

• Flipped - flipping her life around

Star in Text:

 

• Russel Brand - drugs, temptation, alcohol, top hat (child catcher)

• Noel gets a ride with the devils helpers, takes a picture of them and 'sucks their soul', saves the waitress's soul, don't want to brand him as a British villain, God

Voyerism:

• Devils helpers flash down a car - close up of leg, steals car, picks up Noel

• Takes pictures of the devils helpers in bikinis

Intertextuality:

• Devil - Heaven Vs Hell, what's right and what's wrong

• Flipped - anti-Christ 

• Owl - pure, showing she's still deep, occultic symbol, the dark side

• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - child catchers top hat

Noel Then Vs Now:

• The song is his last chance to make an album, getting older

• Americana Vs Britannia