Not everyone is happy with Noel Gallagher lending his song to a John Lewis ad

"I don’t want interesting! Rock ‘n’ roll’s not about that. To me, it’s about f**king utter gobsh*tes just being f**king headcases."

So says Noel Gallagher in an interview for Esquire, in what is a rant about the middle-0f-the-roadness of modern rock. The indie legend wants music to be exciting, dangerous and provocative - not media-friendly or 'nice'. The comments have gone public on the same day that John Lewis premiered their annual Christmas advert - a surgical prang at the heartstrings that expertly manipulates the public into feeling 'totes emosh' and dashing out to buy a telescope for granddad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuz2ILq4UeA The ad features a plinky-plonk cover of Oasis' Half the World Away, by a breathy Norwegian singer called Aurora. You know the drill: an old classic performed in a saccharine sweet child-like voice at half the normal speed. It seems a fair few observers feel there's something of a contradiction in Gallagher bemoaning the tedium of commercial pop pap one minute, and then lending one of his songs to be sanitised into a very easy listen the next... https://twitter.com/zeldasbxtch/status/662597723875618816 https://twitter.com/JohnHyde1982/status/662580269619281921 https://twitter.com/lightspeed_/status/662600252348854272 https://twitter.com/JamesFHall/status/662553916308135936 https://twitter.com/HoltChris/status/662549695743545344 https://twitter.com/jackcarter22/status/662532433854754816 https://twitter.com/vicky_walker/status/662601895916273664