Some aging rock icons just can’t sit back on their contributions to society and rest on their enduring cool factor; they feel the need to come for the younger generation taking their pop culture places. We saw it earlier this year when Blur frontman, Damon Albarn, inaccurately alleged that Taylor Swift doesn’t write her own songs. Albarn eventually apologized, but his fumble hasn’t deterred another rocker of similar infamy from entering the chat. Oasis guitarist and vocalist Noel Gallagher apparently decided Harry Styles should now be in the cross hairs of generational beef, insinuating that the pop star doesn’t write songs and isn’t a “real” musician.
In an interview with Absolute Radio, as per the Daily Star, the frontman argued of the competition show that launched Styles’s career, “The X Factor is a TV show, it’s got nothing to do with music, it’s got nothing to do with music whatsoever, and anything that has come from that, that’s got nothing to do with music.” One of rock’s most legendary songwriters taking issue with musical reality TV that delivers a lot of shlock isn’t shocking — but Gallagher’s statement was an indirect dig at Styles, the most famous contender to come out of the X Factor after Simon Cowell assembled One Direction on the show.
