Research: Oasis - The Importance Of Being Idle

Media studies A2 project -
                                 
                                           - Research into 'alternative rock' music videos -

The second alternative rock music video that I analysed for my research in music videos was a song by Oasis called 'The importance of being idle'. I was also very familiar with this song but had never seen the video, I felt like it was important that I come out of my comfort zone in terms of preferred music videos as I wanted to challenge myself in the research as well as research a broad range of artists and their different styles of alternative rock.

Oasis were an English rock band that formed in Manchester in 1991. Oasis are a very successful rock band, with a total of eight UK number-one singles and eight UK number-one albums and won fifteen NME awards, nine Q awards, four MTV Europe Music Awards and six Brit awards, including one in 2007 for Outstanding Contribution to Music and one for the best Album of the Last 30 Years as voted by BBC radio 2 listeners. By 2009, the band had sold an estimated 70 million records across the world.

I chose The importance of being Idle, written and sung by lead guitarist Noel Gallagher. It was the second single released from the album in the UK, on the 22nd of August 2005, where it debuted at number one. IT was also the first time that Oasis earned two successive number ones in the same calendar year. The importance of being idle was the band's last UK #1 hit prior to their 2009 breakup.

 

 

Oasis - The Importance Of Being Idle lyrics

I sold my soul for the second time
Cos the man, he don't pay me
I begged my landlord for some more time
He said "Son, the bills waiting"

My best friend called me the other night
He said "Man, are you crazy?"
My girlfriend told me to get a life
She said "boy, you lazy"

But I don't mind
As long as there's a bed beneath the stars that shine
I'll be fine
If you give me a minute
A mans got a limit
I cant get a life if your hearts' not in it

I don't mind
As long as there's a bed beneath the stars that shine
I'll be fine
If you give me a minute
A mans got a limit
I cant get a life if my hearts' not in it

I lost my faith in the summertime
Cos it don't stop raining
The sky all day's as black as night
But I'm not complaining

I begged my doctor for one more line
He said "Son, words fail me"
It ain't no place to be killing time
But I guess I'm just lazy

I don't mind
As long as there's a bed beneath the stars that shine
I'll be fine
If you give me a minute
A mans got a limit
I cant get a life if my hearts' not in it