She's Electric

"She's Electric"
Promotional single by Oasis
from the album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
Released2 October 1995
RecordedMay–June 1995[1]
StudioRockfield (Gwent, South Wales)[1]
Genre
Length3:40
LabelCreation
SongwriterNoel Gallagher
Producers
Lyric video
"Oasis - She's Electric (Official Lyric Video)" on YouTube
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? track listing
12 tracks
  1. "Hello"
  2. "Roll with It"
  3. "Wonderwall"
  4. "Don't Look Back in Anger"
  5. "Hey Now!"
  6. Untitled
  7. "Some Might Say"
  8. "Cast No Shadow"
  9. "She's Electric"
  10. "Morning Glory"
  11. Untitled
  12. "Champagne Supernova"

"She's Electric" is a song by English rock band Oasis. It is the ninth track on their 1995 album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.[1] In 2024, the Official Charts Company listed "She's Electric" as Oasis's sixth most-streamed song in the United Kingdom,[4] and in 2025 the same publication, citing PPL data, ranked it as the band's third most-played song on UK radio and television this century.[5]

Background

"She's Electric" was taken from Oasis' 1995 album (What's the Story) Morning Glory?[6] It was intended to be released on the band's debut album Definitely Maybe, but was replaced by the song "Digsy's Dinner" which they believed was a better live song. The song is notable for its storytelling lyrics and singer Liam Gallagher's vocal performance which includes falsetto.[2] Noel Gallagher told NME in 1995 that it "was the first song we wrote for the album" and described it as being "like a Small Faces song or something by The Kinks".[7] Radio X later summarised the song as "half With A Little Help From My Friends by The Beatles and half the theme tune to the 1970s kids TV show You And Me", and quoted Gallagher's period explanation that it was about "a boy who's got a girlfriend, and he used to go out with her sister, that he fancies her mother, doesn't get on with her brother".[8] The track has been noted for its Beatles influences, including similarities in the chorus melody to "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and in the outro harmonies to "With a Little Help from My Friends".[9][10][11] Portions of the song's verse also carry an identical melodic and bass line as the verse of "Lady Madonna", albeit transposed.[12] Allan F. Moore has also compared the song to the Beatles' "When I'm Sixty-Four".[13]

A previously unreleased demo of the song was included on the deluxe 2014 reissue of (What's the Story) Morning Glory?.[14] A lyric video for the song was released on 2 October 2018, 23 years to the day of the album's release.[15]

Personnel

Reception

"She's Electric" reached number 11 in the United Arab Emirates.[17] NME ranked "She's Electric" 51st among Oasis songs.[18] In its review of Oasis's catalogue, Trouser Press described the song as "Kinksy folk-rock".[19] In a 2024 ranking of the band's songs, Rolling Stone Australia wrote that Noel Gallagher gave the track "one of his sweetest mock-McCartney melodies" and praised Liam Gallagher's "endearing falsetto on the chorus", arguing that it showed Oasis had "a surprisingly twee side".[20]

Following the renewed interest in Oasis's catalogue after the announcement of the band's 2025 reunion, "She's Electric" entered the UK charts in September 2024, reaching number 31 on the Official Streaming Chart and number 65 on the Official Singles Sales Chart.[21]

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[22] Gold 35,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[23] 2× Platinum 1,200,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ^ a b c "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?". Oasis. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Oasis - '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?' Track by Track with Noel Gallagher [25th Anniversary]". 5 October 2020. Event occurs at 13:12. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Oasis". Trouser Press. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  4. ^ "Oasis's Official Top 40 most-streamed songs ever in the UK". Official Charts. 28 August 2024. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  5. ^ "Oasis's most played songs of the century revealed". Official Charts. 8 July 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  6. ^ Bajgrowicz, Brooke (2 October 2018). "New Oasis 'She's Electric' Lyric Video Marks 23rd Anniversary of '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' Album".
  7. ^ "Noel Gallagher – NME – 30th September 1995". Oasis Interviews Archive. 30 September 1995. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  8. ^ "The stories behind every track on (What's The Story) Morning Glory?". Radio X. 2 October 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  9. ^ Wiederhorn, Jon (19 October 1995). "(What's The Story) Morning Glory?". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
  10. ^ Coffman, Tim (26 February 2021). "10 Classic Songs You Didn't Know Were Ripped Off". WhatCulture.com. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
  11. ^ Leadbeater, Adam (3 September 2024). "7 Oasis Tracks that Borrowed from Other Songs". CultureSonar. Retrieved 24 December 2025.
  12. ^ Moore, Allan; Martin, Remy (28 September 2018). Rock: The Primary Text: Developing a Musicology of Rock. Routledge. ISBN 9780429490170. Retrieved 4 January 2026.
  13. ^ Moore, Allan F. (1997). The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. New York City: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-57381-8.
  14. ^ "Oasis Announce (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Reissue". Pitchfork. 2 July 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  15. ^ Bajgrowicz, Brooke (2 October 2018). "New Oasis 'She's Electric' Lyric Video Marks 23rd Anniversary of '(What's the Story) Morning Glory?' Album". Billboard. Retrieved 30 May 2025.
  16. ^ "Owen Morris: How I mastered Morning Glory". Retrieved 11 October 2020.
  17. ^ "She's Electric (Remastered)". www.top-charts.com.
  18. ^ Howard, Tom (20 May 2019). "The Masterlist – every Oasis song ever recorded ranked in order of greatness".
  19. ^ "Oasis". Trouser Press. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  20. ^ "'She's Electric' (1995)". Rolling Stone Australia. 4 September 2024. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  21. ^ "SHE'S ELECTRIC – OASIS". Official Charts. Retrieved 14 March 2026.
  22. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2026 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 3 March 2026.
  23. ^ "British single certifications – Oasis – She's Electric". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 25 October 2024. Select singles in the Formats field. Type She's Electric Oasis in the "Search:" field.

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