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Oasis - Champagne Supernova

Music Video | 1996
ArtistOasis
SongChampagne Supernova
DirectorNigel Dick
Director of PhotographySimon Archer
EditorBruce Ochmanek
Art DirectorIvan Unwin
Year-Date1996-March(1996-February16,17)
GenreRock
GenrePop
IntroNo
OutroNo
Production CompanyDickfilms[df329](Phil Barnes)
Nominations1996 VH-1 Awards Most Stylish Video
Production time2 days
Script/Written byNigel Dick
Set LocationEarling Studios, Great Britain
Sound MixStereo
Technical Specificationscolour - format unknown
TelecineBrian Linse

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Synopsis

Oasis perform "Champagne Supernova" inside a dreamlike, studio-built world of lava lamps, shifting light projections, and surreal imagery. Liam Gallagher appears in reflective close-ups and reclines on a bed while the band play through the song's extended arrangement. The video moves between moody performance footage, quick-cut psychedelic images, and a montage of dancing women, creating an intentionally loose, hallucinatory counterpart to the song's cryptic lyrics. Its atmosphere favors sensation over narrative, matching the track's slow-building, seven-minute sprawl.

Factoids & Trivia

  • The video was filmed at Ealing Studios in West London in February 1996. It runs for roughly seven minutes, reflecting the album version's unusually expansive length.
  • The record label's brief was reportedly to make the clip feel "very druggy" without showing drugs. The resulting imagery leans into psychedelic color, projections, and deliberately disconnected edits.
  • Noel Gallagher was famously dismissive of music videos and reportedly called the finished concept nonsense, making the clip an amusing contrast to the care put into its elaborate visual mood.
  • "Champagne Supernova" was not released as a conventional UK single. In the United States, it was issued to radio in 1996 and became one of Oasis' biggest modern-rock hits.
  • The song closes (What's the Story) Morning Glory? and became one of the defining large-scale anthems of the Britpop era. Its video is correspondingly less a story than a visual extension of the track's hazy, oversized atmosphere.

Lyrics

How many special people change
How many lives are living strange
Where were you when we were getting high?
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannon ball
Where were you while we were getting high?

Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova in the sky
Some day you will find me
Caught beneath the landslide
In a champagne supernova
...
© Oasis - Champagne Supernova. This is an excerpt, provided as citation under fair-use.
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