Did He Deliver???
Filed under: Anglophilia > Jay-ZPicking Jay-Z to be one of the headliners of the U.K.'s Glastonbury was highly controversial and heavily criticized.
So…
The music festival came and went this past weekend.
How did Hov do???
CLICK HERE to check out his cover of Oasis's Wonderwall paired with his own 99 Problems (above).
Thoughts????
Posted: June 29, 2008 at 7:35 pm
he did an amazing set…i had friends who were there and they said the atmosphere was curazy…and zane lowe…yum!!! and all these people saying he was shit he didn't even learn the song…he was taking the piss! he did it just to get back at noel gallagher!
Re: Rob –
you're an ignorant, sub par, ne're do well, simple minded dumb fuck, clearly. while you think you're dissing jay, your ACTUALLY showcasing your undeveloped, inable to comprehend, 3% functioning right side of your fucking brain. i say RIGHT side cause you clearly don't have a knack for appreciating or understanding pure unadulterated raw talent. you're devoid of any creativity or ability to recognize it. sad.
To all those that have said it was a rubbish cover - it wasn't meant to be serious, he did it in reference to one of the Gallagher brothers(I have no idea which one, cant tell the difference because they are both cocky, ugly, untalented tossers) criticizing him and all of the bad press about a hip hop star headlining a 'rock festival'. I thought it was really subtle and funny of Jay Z, rather than retaliating and saying something nasty.
i cant belive how fucking stupid you americans are. you get stupider everyday. He is a genius for opening the concert that way and frankly if noel g had written a good album in the past 10 years maybe he could talk but oasis are SHIT. keep up you fucking morons.
he didnt even know the fucking words!!! and when he was actually singing into the mic for the 3 seconds of wonderwall he was mumbling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! terrible, very disppointed, anyone could have got up there and done that performance
Jeez…if you're gonna do it, do it right man… Know the lyrics atleast!
He couldn't keep his mouth near the mic, didn't know half the words [probably why he kept stepping back and letting the audience sing the whole thing], and couldn't even stay in key. I guess they call them rappers instead of singers - for a reason. He should just stick to doing his thing and stop ruining other peoples songs.
he should stick to his own music…great song though!!
Re: Gemma –
I agree……but i am a Jay-z fan. Watching it here looks crap but if i was there i guess the atmosphere would have made it worth it.
WE ALL GET 'THE JOKE', THE PROBLEM IS THAT IT WAS A VERY PATHETIC ATTEMPT TO GET BACK AT GALLAGHER, WHO IS A GENIUS. ALL THE THINGS THAT JAY HAS DONE IN HIS LIFETIME (WHEN IT COMES TO MUSIC) CAN'T EVEN COME CLOSE TO HOW OASIS CHANGED MUSIC FOREVER. SO NATURALLY, OASIS FANS ARE PISSED THAT THIS ASSHOLE IS DISSING A GENIUS. GO FUCK YOURSELF JAY-Z, YOU'VE LOST A POTANTIAL FAN TODAY.
Jay-Z Is more relevant than Oasis ever was. The Gallagher brothers are clowns and always have been.
Jay Z is Awesome! Kanye West should have been one of the nights headliners too!
To Olia:
Oasis changed the face of music? Is that a F***ing joke. Those two little nit witts haven't had a good record this decade! They have one song that people know the words to and honestly Wonderwall can't be described as rock n roll, it was clearly penned as whiny, chick song…nothing original about that.
Oasis has nothing on Jay-Z's career. Sorry folks but Hova wins this contest with his hands tied behind his guitar.
holy shit, he can't carry a tune to save his life.
I liked it, and the people in the audience seemed to love it too. I really wish i'd gone now.
I'm sure this has already been discussed, but Jay-Z was obviously poking lyrical fun at the gents from Oasis, who thought his inclusion was trash and made it clear during their interviews leading up to this. I thought some of the lines, in that regard, were apt: "I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now." "There are many things that I'd like to say to you but I don't know how."
HO-va has nothing on Gallagher! Jay is just a Ho, that's all.
WOW HOV delivers!
Jay-z was AMAZING.
Wonderwall sucked though, he only did it to take a piss out of Noel Gallagher because he talked smack on Jay-Z for playing Glastonbury.
Horrible! Horrible! WTF! Another media/publicity made loser! And please, who said most rappers can sing! All they do is talk to catchy sounds - that's not real singing!
rap sucks
Looooooovvvvveeeeeeeee Jayz!
JUST AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHOSE MUSIC THEY ACTUALLY VALUE….JAY-Z PERFORMED WITH RIHANNA (WHO HONESTLY CAN’T BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS AN ARTIST). NOEL GALLAGHER PERFROMED WITH PAUL WELLER –THE MODFATHER. SO PLEASE, THESE TWO CAN’T EVEN BE COMPARED. HAVE YOU GUYS (EVER) HEARD JAY-Z SPEAK WITH OR TALK TO SOMEONE OR GIVE AN INTERVIEW? IT’S LIKE LISTENING TO A LAMB, HAS ABSOLUTE NOTHING INTELEGENT TO SAY AND IS NEVER FUNNY (UNLESS YOU’RE A MORON—THEN MAYBE YOU’LL FIND HIM FUNNY). NOEL ON THE OTHER HAND IS HILARIOUS IN EVERY INTERVIEW. I FEEL SILLY WRITING ABOUT THIS, BUT HONESTLY THESE TWO CAN’T EVER BE AND SHOULD NEVER BE COMPARED.
I was watching here in London and it was BRILLIANT, fantastic job and very very well received here in the UK!! Well done Jay-Z!!
thank god this may be the last glastonbury, cause its going right down the fuckin pan, too much change, not the same anymore, no disprespect to jay z , kinda cool, but totally on another path for me personally
It must be nice to have that kind of cash? He shouldn't quit his day job, which is???? Beyonce, what are you thinking girl??????
Terrible… I was really excited to hear it too. I usually love his mash-ups. He hardly sang Wonderwall and when he did it sounded like bad karaoke. Then he does his own song and it didn't sound much better. I'd be pissed if I were Oasis and/or the people at the festival. He blew it on this one…
V. clever Jay-Z! In that context, he seemed to demonstrate that their typical music sucks, but he completely rocks. I was kind of shocked at the little to no singing ability though!
Re: Rob – I hate people that are asked a question and respond with a comment on peoples race, which is totally irrelevant. Is that how you are in normal life? Like someone says "can I borrow your pencil?" and you say "This pencils from China, I fucking hate the Chinese". You are a twat. And I'm white, in case you were wondering
Duh you morons hes tsking the mickey out of oasis wonderwall cause the slagged him off in british tbloids about him being 2 hip hop 2head glasto!!!!! So the singing irrelivant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10* jays fab
I CAN'T BELIEVE HE HEADLINED GLASTONBURY……
WTF!!! THIS FESTIVAL HAS SOLD THE FUCK OUT!
First of all, no, he definitely CAN'T sing…and yes, it (Wonderwall) sounded horrible! However, I think the whole point was that he was sending a proverbial "F-You" to anyone that was opposed to him headlining at Glastonbury…especially Noel Gallagher for his very public rant to the media. You can clearly see that he wasn't taking the song seriously and was smirking through the first part of his performance- He was truly just clowning Oasis and I thought it was pretty funny! To be from the projects in Brooklyn to headlining a major show- I'd be smirking, too, if people were opposing me! The rapping, though, was truly on point! He ripped it!
Wow, I think He was hanging out with Wino in the back for too long.
GLASTONBURY HAS REACHED A NEW LOW! A new low!
Jay-Z was just making fun of the guy from Oasis saying he wasn't rock & roll enough to play at that festival. I love Jay for doing that!!!! haha
HE WAS JUST MAKING FUN OF OASIS, STUPID PEOPLE!!!
FIERCE! I loved the bridge between Oasis and 99 and the ACDC sample was sweet. The brits were all like yum dirty teeth Oasis Yay! and that got them in the mood for 99.
WTF! in a bad way, he killed it, wtf was he ever doin' @ glasto in the 1st place?
Jay-Z gave them what they wanted… even turning his song, 99 problems, into a total rock song! It shows what a versatile performer he is… the show rocked and you can tell the crowd loved him…. better than most rappers out there and much better performed and transformed to 'fit the crowd'…. now Amy Winehouse….
The crowd really loves that Wonderwall, eh? That says a lot right there.
His song was OK…..likable b/c it sounds like RUN-DMC
hahaha good way to say "fuck u" to noel gallagher!! hahahah fuck u oasis!
Im glad he played an Oasis song even though he cant sing and he didnt actually do anything other than play it. But atleast he recognised that Glastonbury is about great British/Indie music and he paid homage to it. THought his set was good and Im be happy to see more big American artists headline the main stage.
ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY
I wish I'd been there
how bout the fact that Jay-z sang to wonderwall was a big fat fuck you to the lead guitarist for saying that hip-hop had no place at that concert. The simple fact that Jay-z could take his song and get the crowd to sing along with HIM was priceless…throwing punches without using fist !!!
that was so horrrrrrrrible
ugh
he shou,d not try to sing
ive heard so much about this performance…good things…and it was brilliant!! love oasis and jay-z and thought it was hillarious he getting back at noel gallagher for his comments!! hip hop does belong at glastonbury..all music does!!
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************** sick!!!!********************
Re: kate –
YES, RAP/HIP HOP AND ALL MUSIC BELONGS TO GLATONBURY BUT NOT A TOOL LIKE JAY Z. AT LEAST BRING A RESPECTABLE ARTIST LIKE BROTHER ALI, COMMON OR NAS. ANYONE WHO'S A REAL ARTIST! NOT THIS IDIOT!
he's sick! go baby rhino!
It was SARCASTIC. Noel said he wasnt good enough to headline so he was being snide back at him
Noel Gallagher moved out of his home of 10+ years because James Blunt moved in beside him.
"Gallagher has put the £5.5million villa on the market, saying that he can’t stand living there in the knowledge that Blunt is nearby making terrible music."
Glastonbury is a rock festival not a fucking hip hop shit fest, theres enough of those going on around america… but now making their way over seas.. FUCKING TRAGIC.
what the hell was that.
it was almost like he was making fun of oasis :@
some people would not be happy with that,
maybee he would try singing inot the mic.
its not the diffrent from rapping.
ughh
Jay-Z get a life
go fuck you wife
Whoa, when he's not rapping he can't bloody sing!
Jay-Z only did wonderwall to pull the shit outta liam gallagher for saying he shouldn't be playing at glastonbury
To all the Jay-Z haters take some advice from his song 99 problems..
If you don't like his lyrics press ffwd.
I for one love Jay..his spoof on that cheesey song Wonderwall was pretty hysterical. There is nothing i repeat NOTHInG rock and roll about 'wonderwall'. It's a ballad written strictly for the radio, no edge whatsoever.
I actually liked the 99 Problems lyrics over the "Back in Black" music. It sounded good, actually.
HOVA KICKED ASS, WAY TO BRING IT TOGETHER. WHO BETTER TO GET THE CROWD GOING THAN THE ROC? GET IT JIGGA.
I was there and you couldnt hear him sing at all, the crowd did it all. He was amazing though.. very shocked!
THIS GUY IS STUPID!!!
Loved his use of "Wonderwall." Good joke. Need to be a guitar band to fit into the "Glastonbury tradition"? Check. Now, I'd like to see Liam or Noel add some hip-hop to their set. Not likely.
Re: OLIA –
OLIA: Oasis changed music forever? No, The Beatles changed music forever and Oasis just copied it.
grandeee Jay-Z !
YEAH HE DID!
Amazing! Jay rules.
He fucking killed it; all those critics can shut the fuck up now.
Re: Rob – Rob you are a fucking racist! Jay-Z is the truth and you are a looser. His nistrils may be big but he could definately buy your sorry ass. Jay-Z's performance was awesome. Rob your and asshole
He rocked it!!! He was trying to be perfect at Wonderwall!!! That was the point! To throw it in the haters Oasis' faces!!! Jay did his thing! Stop hating!!! Jay rocked Glastonbury!
I went to glastonbury & he was one of my favourite!
Fkin imense!!
Jay-z messed up on purpose stupid fucks !
kinda rude but oh well that's life .
I hate Oasis. They are arrogant HAS BEENS. Aren't they dead yet?
wow is he tone deaf? the audience was staying in key better than he was… no wonder he's not a singer…
AMAZING! i love him
JAY-Z DOMINATES OVER ABOUT 95% OF TODAY'S RAPPERS!! HE ROCKS CAUSE HIS INFLUENCED BY ALL KINDS OF ROCK AND ROLL MUSIC!! GO JAY-Z DO DA THANG!
Re: Rob –
you ignorant bastard. Jay has so much money and grace he would pay for you to get cultured. Jay is a talented lyricist and this concert just proved that he can cross any cultural barriers.
omg e's soo funny!!! haha e got 99 probs and singin isdefiitey 1!!! haha e's a cool dude tho dat was so funn e just takin da piss outta all the criticism bout his perormance but e was brill!!
He is the Fucking man… Oh course he delivered
omg e's soo funny!!! haha e got 99 probs and singin is definitey 1!!! ha e's a cool dude tho dat was so funny e just takin da piss outta all the criticism bout his perormance but e was brill!!
horrible singer. Like everyone said, at least know the words assfuck.
Jay Z Really needs to sit his ass down with his neighborhood of make believe guitar playing and his (gulp) dare I call it singing
Re: SS – I was there and all I can say is WOW, what an unexpected performance!!!!
Would have still preferred somebody else to headline the festival this year
OH GOD, THIS GUY MAKES ME SICK! FROM HIS STUPID LYRICS AND THE THINGS HE'S PROMOTING. HE'S FUCKING EMBARISSING! HE SOLD HIS SOUL, HE'S A SELL-OUT! AND HE COULDN'T COME UP WITH ANYTHING BETTER THAN THIS?? THIS GUY IS PATHETIC!
Jay-Z was good to me John Mayer wasn't shit. People around me were waying who the hell is he.
IT'S THE ROCK BITCHES!! THE BEST RAPPER ALIVE PERIOD.
EMBARRASSING* (SORRY–TYPO)
Wow.
He did wonderwall no justice.
99 problems sounded alright, and mixing it with some oldie tunes was pretty cool.
Horrid. The voice was tone deaf, couldn;t play the chords. Was he mocking Oasis because so many raised a fuss about him playing at the fest?
Re: ME – Ditto 324. Well said. Well said.
It's called "sour grapes". An old, well-known parable. Heretofore, I had thought no one could exemplify the "sour grapes" parable better than Kanye West. But this 38 y/o highschool dropout, Betty Ford Center Alumnus, with a six-year-old's nickname—has definitely memorialized the Sour Grapes And Fox Parable.
What a mockery and they should never allow this trash again
Re: Rambova –
You mean the hear cuts? Maybe…But they didn't steal any of their music though. Yes, the Beatles were a big influence for them, but so were other bands. Ten years from now people will still remember Live Forever, Wonderwall, Masterplan, Don't Look Back in Anger, Supersonic etc. All classics. What's Jay going to be remembered for??? "Big Pimpin'" hmm , hmm that's ridiculous.
i just came back from glastonbury and Jay-Z was the best act there!
and the way he tore that dickhead from oasis was genious, as unlike oasis, he managed to keep his dignity and came out looking like the better man.
i have been 3 times to glastonbury and i have to say that he had the best response i have ever seen.
wooo!!!
Jay Z was brilliant, gave those white ass, middle class Brits something to take home to tell Mummy and Daddy - hope Noel Gallagher raised a glass to the man over the weekend and more acts like Jay Z to follow…….And if you were wondering, the weather in London this afternoon is warm, dry with a slight breeze….xxxx…Nikki the Brit
HE WAS TAKING THE PISS OUTTA THE GALLAGHERS FROM OASIS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT HIP HOP AT GLASTONBURY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HE RIPPED THEM TO PIECES
Okay, he can't song. But he is an amazing rapper. I love him.
He slaughtered Wonderwall (and NOT in a good way)
99 Probs was good…but he doesn't fit into the Glastonbury vibe at all. Hopefully they'll go back to the way they used to be next year.
Jay-Z is soccer mom rap.
nice outfit jayzmic!
he fucked up wonderwall big time. Hopefully this he wont be back next year
i love jay z but damn that was awful..he can' sing live i gather??
SUCK ON THAT NOEL GALLAGHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK YOU!!!!