🎵 Pulp - Common People REACTION

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[GhostlyEcheveria]

Wow. I wasn't expecting Pulp. Jarvis Cocker is iconic. I love his sass. In the song he says he met her at a college. She came from a wealthy family. She took a liking to him, who came from a very different background. It's about the class divide, and rich people treating poor people like a novelty.

[gordowgwg]

There's a thing called "slumming it" where wealthy people play at being poor, hanging out with poor people, sleeping with them, etc.
The girl in the song is doing that and the singer is calling her out on it, saying that it doesn't matter how much she thinks she's being 'real', it's still a game to her and she can stop whenever she wants but the poor people are stuck with it.

[lumpyfishgravy]

It's hard to overstate the impact of Common People back in the day. When Pulp stood in for Stone Roses at Glastonbury, this song would have taken the roof off if there was one.

[mpmlopes]

The answer to "which one is the better band, Oasis or Blur?", is Pulp.

You can do Disco 2000, or Sorted For The E's and Wizz, or Babies.

This song is inspired in something that actually happened to Jarvis Cocker when he was at Uni.

[claireboddey]

Pulp were an incredible band. This song is quintessentially British, it epitomises the British university student experience.

[manna]

As an economically poor Australian boy who was in a long term relationship with a rich English girl...this song is insanely accurate. Love her to death even after we broke up... but she truly encompassed every aspect of this song. Amazingly accurate portrayal of the divide between the have's and have not's in this twisted world, and a catchy song to boot. :)

[FightingTorque]

There's a verse and bridge missing from this video version but included in the album track, and they really drive home the song's message:

"Like a dog lying in a corner
They will bite you and never warn you -
Look out! they'll tear your insides out
'Cause everybody hates a tourist
Especially one who thinks it's all such a laugh
Yeah, and the chip stains and grease
Will come out in the bath

You will never understand
How it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go
You're amazed that they exist
And they burn so bright
While you can only wonder why..."

Class divide, in short. This is Pulp's biggest hit but I personally like "Disco 2000" more, including its similarly quirky video.

[GMACF]

A little bit of trivia. The lady in the video is the actress Sadie Frost, ex wife of actor Jude Law and Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp.

[philvallee]

It's too bad you guys didn't listen to the album version as it contains a whole extra set of verses which complete the song. As someone else pointed out, this song references the the class system in Britain, which still exists to this day. Jarvis Cocker told the story about how this is based on someone he actually met while attending St Martins College in London as an art student. The girl's father is rich "she told me that her dad was loaded" and coming from this very privileged background is curious how the other half.. actually 99% live. She's slumming for the fun of it and is so clueless that doesn't even realize she insults him by claiming she wants to sleep with common people like you.. The anger in this track builds as he point out that however much she might want to play at being less privileged or poor, she will never understand since while she watches "roaches climb the wall"she can call her dad who can stop it all. In the part you didn't hear, he calls her out and warns her that if you think poor is cool, "like a dog lying in a corner, they'll bite you and never warn you - look out they'll tear your insides out 'cause everybody hates a tourist". Classic song with a good dose of social commentary.

[markjones]

This was during the era when higher education was still free in the UK (well around the time when free education actually ended anyway), and St Martins is a very prestigious art college full of rich kids, and quite a few common people like myself too, I was studying at art college myself at the time, and this song is a playful look at some richer student's fascination with the more common students, I dated several girls in college who were from quite wealthy families, being a council estate kid certainly made you a curiosity, things have changed somewhat now, but the song is very much of its time.

[barriehull]

'"Common People" was typical Pulp – a biting satire of posh people ‘roughing it’ and acting like tourists by hanging with the "common people".

roughing it
A term used to describe some form of hard living. Like sleeping in a tent at muddy festival grounds.
I was roughing it the last time I attended Glastonbury. The mud was up to my ears.

[TechnicalDirectorFM]

This song is incredibly British and sums up Britain as a whole. Love it

[lockie]

Ahhhh, Pulp Iconic social commentary that actually spoke to a whole generation, great review by the way.

[carlmichael]

Its a scathing attack upon the upper class posers who find it "cool" to try and knock about with working class, theres a clear north / south Divide in England too. This is an anthem.

[davidsedgley]

I'm really glad you listened to this song, as it's an absolute classic of the Britpop era, and UK pop in general.

It's actually quite a deep song but it's hard to unpick without having lived through the 90s in the UK. The album version with the two extra verses is much harder hitting than this shorter radio edit. But the song is essentially an expression of anger and bewilderment at rich people thinking that they know what it is like to be poor. It perfectly encapsulated the mood of the UK in the mid 1990s when there had been many years of social oppression that was about to be torn down, and hence was probably THE defining song of the Britpop era.

The band Pulp are from Sheffield, one of the cities in the north of the country that was hardest hit. The strangely non-dark vibe for quite a dark subject probably comes from the northern UK mentality of taking a certain pride in the fact that they struggle through hardship. See the 'Four Yorkshiremen' sketch for an example of what I mean!

[TheShend]

As an interesting aside, it is rumoured that lady in the song is the wife of one time Greek Finance minister Yanis Varoufakis (legend). She fits the profile, right age, Greek, wealthy background
and studied sculpture at St Martins College. Yanis when asked about this could neither confirm or deny the allegation that his wife was the lady in question.

[jporrasedit]

This was/is a class anthem, regulary voted among the most beloved british pop songs.

And in my experience women in europe are much more straight forward tan in the US, that's maybe what Brad confused with "agressive"

[MyargonautsJason]

William Shatner, of Star Trek fame, did a great cover of this song a few years ago with Joe Jackson singing some parts as well. Really fun!

[ironhead]

I think the part you guys are missing is that British society has notable differences from American society (might seem obvious, but most Americans don't realize). This song is about the class divide in Britain. Sure, there are rich and poor here in America, but there is generally no cultural bias against the movement of people out of the lower SES class. It's not so open in English culture, and such an attitude of the girl in the song resonates with people as such. It's also a great song, with emotion but also fun.

[parissimons]

Great song! Pulp is a band from the formerly industrial heartland (South Yorkshire) city of Sheffield. A local hero of sorts, singer/lyricist Jarvis Cocker's voice was heard in the Sheffield streetcars announcing stations. (He is also the singer in the Christmas Ball scene during the movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, along with members of Radiohead, etc.) And I find the William Shatner, Joe Jackson, Ben Folds version of "Common People" hilarious, too.
About the story in the song, lots of kids - male and female - from well-heeled families may go through a period where they rebel and want adventures, and sometimes those adventures mean going "slumming", hanging out at working-class bars, seedy clubs, etc. Seeking a taste of forbidden fruit... Most of those kids end up returning to their more comfortable and familiar surroundings after some adventures, after their time as "class tourists". ("'Cause everybody hates a tourist...")
The song is written and sung from the perspective of bemused fury of one of those (common) people who may be the objects of this "slumming" behaviour by those rich kids. And despite the description of the young woman coming from a rich family in Greece, keep in mind that the UK has had distinct social class issues (looking both downward and upward) for centuries.
"Laugh along with the common people
Laugh along even though they're really laughing at you
And the stupid things that you do
Because you think that poor is cool"