"Noel Gallagher scanned the audience at the Rose Bowl on Saturday night and pointed down at a fan in the front row. "Young lady, what's your name?" he asked, tilting his head to try to catch the answer. "I can't really hear you, but this next song is for you." As he spoke, a camera found a woman wearing an Oasis T-shirt openly weeping - openly sobbing - and sent her image to the giant video screens flanking the stage."
"Since launching its reunion tour in early July, Oasis - the swaggering British rock band formed in the early 1990s by Gallagher on guitar and his younger brother Liam on lead vocals - has been traveling the world inspiring great outpourings of emotion wherever it goes. On social media, memes have proliferated equating the catharsis to be had at an Oasis concert to a form of therapy;"
Noel Gallagher spotlighted an emotional fan at the Rose Bowl, capturing a woman openly weeping on the giant screens. The Oasis reunion tour has inspired widespread outpourings of emotion and social-media memes framing concerts as a form of therapy. Observers have suggested communal sing-alongs at these shows could combat male loneliness. Oasis Live '25 marks the band's first run of shows in more than a decade and a half, producing blockbuster ticket sales and pop-up merch. The tour's popularity reflects a broader desire for real-world connection amid technological alienation.
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