Ok. I've listened to Easy Now about ten times and I've come to the conclusion that I don't like it and I don't get Noel's Little by Little/The Masterplan comparisons at all.

I'm not well-versed in music terminology at all, so this will be an pretty pathetic attempt to express my thoughts but here goes. The whole song is way too elevated. It builds up extremely quickly, getting to the "high" point by the third line. Continues on the high point throughout the pre-chorus and chorus. Which is followed by an even more elevated guitar solo, and then followed by part of the chorus AGAIN. Goes back to the "low" part in the second verse for a few brief seconds and then goes back up again. After the second chorus it goes up even more via the gospel singers (which were already (over)used throughout the song).

There's like basically no build up, no ups and downs. The whole song drones on a high note, which sounds cheerful, yes, but there's no depth to it, no darkness to balance it out. Whereas for LBL/The Masterplan, the verses were all on a low note, there were a melancholic feel to them, but then the big, uplifting chorus comes along and you feel inspired. To me, Easy Now sounds a lot more like, idk, feel-good Coldplay music than classic Oasis, which to me were always about being optimistic while facing hardship/problems, not just being happy and that's it.

And yes, the plodding drums are cringeworthy as well, as many people in this thread have already pointed out.

I feel like whenever Noel compares a song he's just written to a classic Oasis song, the song does not go well...