Pulp: Common People Meaning

Common People Lyrics

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge,
she studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,
that's where I,
caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded,
I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola."
She said...

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   Apr 9th 2023 !⃝

   I think most avid and more than a few casual lovers of this particular tune will remember not only it’s catchy chorus being sung by inebriated club-goers at each other, and that it solidified Pulp and It’s frontman Jarvis Cocker as the sort of final gasp of 90s Brit pop. Like pulp had been a band for years prior to common people and had fans, they just weren’t mega stars until the single.
   The song as far as I can remember and I’m nearly certain it’s the case - the song is semi autobiographical to Jarvis cocker, who did attend st martins college of art in London I forget what for, a visual art but can’t tell you which one. Being a student who didn’t have money or a family to give him money, and as such Jarvis cocker often felt alienated from the students who were his peers in the academy but who he otherwise wouldn’t know personally. Being that it was an art school however meant that the sorts of extracurricular life hangouts and interests of students had a lot of crossover, as even his wealthier classmates saw the appeal of a very 90s music, culture and art scene. It was a time when being called a “poser” was about the sickest burn that could be thrown at someone, the implication being that a “poser” was not “one of us.” One of us took on geographic and artistic/graphic tropes, with scenes of folks who say, liked to listen to rock music or punk rock in the 1980s grew more and more insular and the musicians within the respective scenes carved out a sound that fell into any number of categories, the goths, the punks, the rockers the mods and on and on and shoegaze and Brit pop and Manchester sound… these all related not to just the music made by artists in their respective scenes but also the cultural influences and modes that fans identified o e another as knowing, owning, liking, etc. in the 90s there was also the more broad repudiation against some of what was seen as the excessive consumption and flagrance od the 90s. Farrah faucet became Kate moss, and that need to signal to others that you weren’t flashy, that you had in a sense earned your place in a particular niche social hierarchy instead of having bought your way in was real. To be a sell out was considered in some sense to be a cultural appropriator who brought the masses into what had been a comminity and a fashion, a sound, a look that had grew out of the creativity of people who mostly didn’t have a lot of personal wealth.

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