{"id":2445772,"date":"2019-06-27T09:31:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=852978"},"modified":"2019-06-27T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T15:31:55","slug":"liam-gallagher-wants-you-to-question-authority-on-new-song-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/liam-gallagher-wants-you-to-question-authority-on-new-song-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Gallagher Wants You to Question Authority on New Song \u2018The River\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Liam.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/liam-gallagher\/\" id=\"auto-tag_liam-gallagher\" data-tag=\"liam-gallagher\">Liam Gallagher<\/a> urges fans to question authority on his heavy new song \u201cThe River.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Over a dark guitar drone and distant drum thump, the former Oasis frontman belts, \u201cDon\u2019t believe celebrities\/The money-sucking MPs, the device in your hands.\u201d On the chorus, he proclaims, \u201cChange comes when the water falls\/I\u2019ve been waiting so long for you down by the river.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The singer paired \u201cThe River\u201d with a minimalist video that follows a young man as he walks through a pub to a park, past buildings emblazoned with graffiti featuring the album art for Gallagher\u2019s upcoming second solo LP, <em>Why Me? Why Not.<\/em> The character eventually throws away his cell phone in a small act of rebellion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Gallagher recently previewed the album, which follows 2017\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-liam-gallagher-sticks-to-oasis-brawny-britpop-and-beatle-esque-melodies-on-solo-debut-195822\/\"><em>As You Were<\/em><\/a>, with lead single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/liam-gallagher-new-song-shockwave-845546\/\">\u201cShockwave.<\/a>\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"s1\">The frontman \u2014 the subject of the new documentary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-first-trailer-liam-gallagher-as-it-was-documentary-817570\/\"><em>Liam Gallagher: As It Was<\/em><\/a> \u2014 will open for the Who on several October dates of their North American tour; that stretch runs from October 9th in San Francisco through October 24th in Hollywood, California.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/liam-gallagher-new-song-the-river-852978\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liam Gallagher urges fans to question authority on his heavy new song \u201cThe River.\u201d Over a dark guitar drone and distant drum thump, the former Oasis frontman belts, \u201cDon\u2019t believe celebrities\/The money-sucking MPs, the device in your hands.\u201d On the chorus, he proclaims, \u201cChange comes when the water falls\/I\u2019ve been waiting so long for you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 15:22:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}