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The Wiggles Say They’re “So Out of Touch” With Oasis After Mistaking Them for The Beatles
The Wiggles admitted they barely know Oasis during a radio game, even mixing up the Britpop band with The Beatles.
The Wiggles have set off a familiar kind of internet pile-on after admitting on Australian radio that Oasis are not exactly in their wheelhouse, with Anthony Field going so far as to say, “I am so out of touch mate.”
The exchange happened while Anthony Field and Lucia Field, who are currently performing as the Blue Wiggles, appeared on Nova 96.9’s Ricki-Lee & Tim for a game built around identifying famous songs. When the hosts played Oasis’ 1995 single “Wonderwall,” Lucia said she did not know it and explained why with a blunt aside: “Controversially, I like Blur more … that is why I have no idea,” she said, nodding to the Britpop rivalry that defined a whole era of British rock discourse.
That was enough to throw the studio off. Tim Blackwell’s reply, “No! That is gonna go everywhere,” captured the kind of instant-radio moment that turns into a clip, then a headline, then a larger referendum on generational taste. Anthony Field soon joined in with his own example of how far removed he felt from the band’s history, recalling a visit to Abbey Road Studios with his son.
“I bought him what I thought was a Paul McCartney and John Lennon poster and he said, ‘They’re the guys from Oasis,’” he said. “I am so out of touch mate.” Even so, he did at least identify the title of Oasis’ best-known song, adding, “I know they had a song called ‘Wonderwall.’”
The timing is awkward only if you ignore how omnipresent Oasis have become again. The band’s blockbuster reunion tour has pushed them back into the center of global rock conversation, with stadium dates selling out across multiple continents and a renewed demand that feels much bigger than nostalgia alone. Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher’s group, which scored eight No. 1 albums in the U.K., were one of the defining rock acts of the 1990s, with a run of songs that includes “Wonderwall,” “Don’t Look Back in Anger” and “Champagne Supernova.”
“Wonderwall” remains the band’s biggest U.S. hit, peaking at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1996 and topping the Alternative Airplay chart. For a group that once felt unavoidable, the Wiggles’ confusion lands less as scandal than as proof that pop memory is highly selective, especially outside the age group that lived through Britpop the first time around.
That distance is part of what makes The Wiggles such an odd but durable case study in contemporary music culture. The children’s act has spent years moving far beyond its original lane, working with artists across pop, country and rock while also building an audience among adults through festival slots and the sort of viral crossover moments that only an institution can really pull off. Their Nova appearance was meant to push their new song “Sparkle,” but the bigger talking point was a reminder that even a band this culturally embedded can still sound hilariously out of step when the wrong anthem comes on.
