"2024's Pop Was All About Sharing the Moment"

"And you could see it in the commotion caused by the return of Oasis. Whatever else you make of it, Oasis's oeuvre is absolutely predicated on collective experience: their songs sound like songs written specifically for vast crowds of people to bellow along to en masse; they're probably best experienced in the middle of said crowd, drunk, with your arms around your friends. Indeed, collective experience is so entrenched in Oasis's appeal that their music has literally become a signifier of it. In recent years, advertisers have reached for Stand By Me and Round Are Way in commercials tagged, respectively 'it's a people thing' and 'we can all do our bit for our community'."

Alex Petridis at The Guardian writes that "there remains an innate desire for collective experience, for music to provide a sense of community."