Oasis are a 'regressive' band with an outdated 1990s view of the world, according to columnist Suzanne Harrington.
Liam and Noel Gallagher are due to bring the band to Dublin for two sold-out nights in Croke Park next August as part of a 17-gig tour.
The tour has generated huge interest across age groups – with many fans left disappointed at the huge prices being charged for tickets.
In her latest column for the Irish Independent, Suzanne Harrington warns that the Gallagher brothers’ views of the word were already outdated in their heyday.
She told Newstalk Breakfast that they need to catch up to the modern world.
"At the time, at their peak, they were regressive and that was 30 years ago," she said.
"In the '90s they had '70s attitudes, but now we're in the 2020s and they still have '90s attitudes with a tinge of '70s.
"They're kind of culturally regressive on a lot of levels and musically regressive as well - they're basically a Beatles pastiche".
Oasis singer Liam Gallagher in Berlin, 14-10-11. Image: dpa picture alliance archive / AlamyMs Harrington said the world has changed a lot since the 1990s.
"They came from an era of lad mags and page three and smoking inside and casual sexism [that they had] never been pulled up [on]," she said.
"There was no such thing as gender fluidity, it was a very, very different era - there was no internet."
Ms Harrington said they've also released no new music for the tour.
"Unlike, say, The Cure they have no new stuff - they haven't released anything new in a long, long time," she said.
"So, it is just a greatest hits jukebox and a massive cash-in harnessing fans nostalgia."
Liam and Noel Gallagher of Oasis. Image: PA Images / AlamyMs Harrington said there is still an appetite for them.
"They're they were great at the time - those first two albums were really enjoyable and embedded in the culture at the time - but I don't know if they've travelled forward very well," she said.
"The thing that they had in spades was buckets and buckets of performance charisma. They were brilliant live."
Ms Harrington added that criticising Oasis may lead to "horrible feedback" as a "kind of a self-perpetuating prophecy that Oasis and a lot of their fans are quite oikey".
