14 de marzo de 2013

Slumming



Unas de las cosas que siempre me encantaron del pop britanico es que ha sabido decir cosas con una acidez terrible, disfrazadas en paquetes sumamente atractivos y aparenemente mansos.

Esta canciòn, Common People, de PULP, habla de la gente que cree que pobre=cool. El video me parece una obra de arte. Sobre la inspiracion, transcribo un extracto de Wikipedia:

The inspiration for the song came from a Greek art student whom Pulp singer/songwriter Jarvis Cockerknew at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Taking this inspiration, the narrator explains that his female acquaintance can "never be like common people", because even if she gets a flat where "roaches climb the wall" ultimately, "if [she] called [her] dad he could stop it all", in contrast to the true common people who can only "watch [their] lives slide out of view". In his lyric Cocker embellished the situation for dramatic effect [1] - in real life the woman in question said she "wanted to move to Hackney and live like 'the common people'", but in the song her character also declares: "I want to sleep with common people like you." A BBC Three documentary[2] failed to correctly locate the woman, who, Cocker stated, could have been in any fine art course but that "sculpture" sounded better. The lyrics were in part a response by Cocker, who usually focused on the introspective and emotional aspects of pop, to more politically minded members of the band likeRussell Senior. Furthermore, Cocker felt that 'slumming' was becoming a dominant theme in popular culture and this contributed to the single's rushed release. Cocker said "it seemed to be in the air, that kind of patronising social voyeurism... I felt that of Parklife, for example, or Natural Born Killers - there is that noble savage notion. But if you walk round a council estate, there's plenty of savagery and not much nobility going on."[3]

No se a uds, a mi estos britanicos me parece que en conjunto la tienen TAN clara. La cantidad de salames que pregonan sensibilidad social y que no son màs que turistas del subdesarrollo...

PD: la letra de la cancion es SANGRIENTA, no es facil de entender, pero vale el esfuerzo.

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