Liam Gallagher: «The 90s if there had been social media? We would all have been in prison.”

After Gwyneth Paltrow – that al Late Late Show of James Corden said he regretted the nineties, years during which – quote – “people did cocaine and weren’t caught”», now Liam Gallagher also arrives who not only lived the nineties but was the representative with his brother Noel and the oasisborn in Manchester in 1991.

The occasion is the question of a fan on Twitter: “How different do you think the 90s would have been with social media?”. A trivial question to which you don’t expect an answer, and instead the answer arrives, concise and pregnant: “Shit, and we would all have been in prison”. Simple, and moreover it also seems to suggest a regret similar to that of Paltrow. The nineties were free, not only for the spirit but for the absence of the “big brother”. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. Social networks that in these days are even being accused by American schools for being guilty of creating depression, eating problems, anti-socialism. But the absence of social media especially in their role of control. Then freedom was total. Paltrow says: «You could go to a bar and have fun, dance on a table, you could do it… without cell phones! Especially in New York, interestingly, there were no paparazzi. You could walk out of a bar and go home with some stranger without anyone knowing».

The fashion of the nineties is making a comeback, of course, but perhaps the truth is that what we are missing it is freedom. Not necessarily to do a “prison” thing, Liam.