Noel Gallagher is prone to…controversial opinions, to put it lightly, and his recent comments on beloved boy band One Direction are no exception. “Does anybody give a f— about what any of these current pop stars are up to?” he said in a recent interview with Esquire UK. “Who gives a shit what f—ing One Direction do? Cocksuckers, all of them in rehab by the time they’re 30.”
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Liam Payne responded to Gallagher’s disdainful remarks in a new interview on BBC Radio 1, saying that he was actually a huge Oasis fan, and had just met the often-cantankerous singer prior to his controversial interview. “The funny thing was, I met him the day the story came out,” Payne said. “I didn’t know it was coming out, and he came up and said, ‘All right, mate? How are you doing?’ I was like, ‘Fine thanks, mate. Nice to meet you’. The next day I read the story and thought, ‘How sad is that?’ He completely dissed us. Nice to diss your fans, isn’t it?”
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Payne continued by telling the station the band was very important to his musical development. “It’s sad because they genuinely led me to a path of singing. That’s something they should be genuinely proud of,” Payne said. “They don’t think before they speak. You never know who was a fan of your music. Especially when you were as big as they were. Do it with grace. Good old Noel, bless him.”