ACTUALLY, THE DIGINIFIED SILENCE WAS MORE APPEALING

Having not risen to any of the I Speak Your Weight machine insults churned out by Liam Gallagher, food writer and sometime pop star Alex Kapranos has finally had enough:

“He knows he can get in the papers from being as obnoxious as he can.

“When I read the Press that surrounded them earlier in 2005, it sounded like an extremely anxious, neurotic young girl at a high school who thought that she had younger, better-looking competition and was just bitching about everything about her. I think everybody, the Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, every contemporary band was at the end of some form of vitriol from him. I’m not particularly bothered by him. it just seems like bitchery from cheap neuroses.”

We're bemused, though: surely high school girls are about the only people in the world who aren't bothered by younger competition? Isn't being in the Upper Sixth, in itself, an empowering addition to the position held in the pecking order? Alex presumably meant "a girl transferred in from a new school who's better developed and has her own bras." Or something.

We imagine Liam's riposte will be along the lines of "he's a cock, or something."

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