GO LET IT OUT (Big Brother)

What you on about? Caroline Sullivan is not convinced by the comeback single

It's worth quoting the first lines of Oasis's "comeback" single: "Ain't no illusion, try to click with what you got, taste every potion cos if you like yourself a lot, go let it out, go let it in. Life is precocious in the most peculiar way, Sister Psychosis don't got a lot to say, she gonna let it out..."

A psychoanalyst could probably unravel whatever it is Noel Gallagher's trying to say but, to the layman, it sounds ominously like a lot of words being used to convey precisely nothing. Yet, improbably, you get the impression he sweats blood over his lyrics, that they have resonance for him, if for nobody else.

Let's dig a bit deeper for their meaning, if only because the lyrics are a good deal more interesting than the music, which shows little evidence of the rumoured interface with dance culture. If anything, the music is retrograde, referencing not only the inevitable Beatles but Oasis themselves.

"Go Let It Out", the first release on the post-Creation Big Brother Records, is just four minutes, but weighs in so laboriously it feels like a Be Here Now track. It's only a whisker away from D'You Know What I Mean?, the lighter-waving plodder that kicked off Be Here Now, which is hardly the comparison it should be evoking. A magnificently surly Liam is the main redeeming feature till it suddenly explodes into a psychedelic cacophony in the last 30 seconds. For the first major release of the 21st century, it's very last millennium.

Back to the lyrics. "Try to click with what you got, taste every potion..." The key words are click and potion. Noel is revealing an intimate moment Chez Gallagher with him on the Playstation as Meg cooks dinner. "Life is precocious in the most peculiar way." Translation: life is one damned thing after another. "Sister Psychosis, she don't got a lot to say." An allusion to the Gallaghers' Catholic childhood, controversially eulogising a nun bound by a vow of silence. "Go let it out, go let it in." Pop stardom is confusing - you don't know if you're coming or going.

And, judging by this single, neither does Noel Gallagher.

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