I was going to say how he is the spokesperson for a generation and a master songwriter. I still will but your comment made me snort orange juice out my nose, so you win.
@@AC-mp7cx Why because a working class lad from Sheffield thought that some US child lover with a God complex needed taking down a peg? I hope you're American because frankly if you're British you're a disgrace mate.
For Jarvis it was a brief encounter with a woman that turned into an iconic song. I was sure it was based on a true story. For me, living in Colorado for 30 years, I have had three very real Common People encounters so this song has a powerful yet laughable meaning. That's the beauty of music, story telling and poetry! It will always be someone's truth even if written by another. A fun interview to watch, thanks for posting.
Pretty cool hey... I'm also very fortunate to say I had the real common people experience... we used to have lots of exchange students at the Uni, I met this amazing Spanish girl and we had our "students affair"... pretty cool to look back to those experiences...
The story doesn't need to have actually happened to him. It's a great song because it's true. Anyone who has ever lived in the North of England has similar tales of posh, rich southern students, dipping their toes in the real world for the first time, finding beans on toast a novelty instead of a grim reality. It's a game to them and one they can always flee from when it becomes too uncomfortable, hence the juxtaposition of cockroaches on the wall but Daddy being able to stop it all. That isn't an option for people like the song's narrator. It's their permanent reality. "You will never understand/what it means to live your life/with no meaning or control/and with nowhere left to go/you're amazed that they exist/but they burn so bright while you can only wonder "why?". Brilliant lyric.
One of the greatest musical talents of the UK. It's pleasure to listen to him as he is just so wise (on most things). My boring ramblings here do not compare not though to Noodle Hat's comment of "Jarvis needs a bigger microphone". I am sure JC would love that comment!
Music is art. The beauty of art is it's left to the listener/observers interpretation. No matter where the inspiration comes from, it becomes a personal interpretation and connection. That's what makes it amazing and enduring.
@@josephancion2190 I pretend it's me!!! Then I recall I'm more of an "UNskillfully avoiding the dog turd outside the corner shop (or whatever)" kind of bird 🤣😅❤❤❤
Some of us lived it. I had a girl I dated in college who told me she was “slumming it” with me. She date me but never marry me she said. Her father was the CEO of the Jane Goodall foundation, her mother was worked for big oil and looked for oil underneath tectonic plates.
You'll 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 They burn so bright, whilst You can only wonder: Why?
most people project onto a songs story or e;ements of the lines so I understand any reticence for disturbing that process which make people question themselves, face themselves, and perhaps provide themselves with some catharsis.
'Jarvis Cocker: The approximate answer to his song 'Common People' might be a more appropriate title. The real story is that he was protecting the source material of the person where the conversation came up in the first place.
it depends how your feeling your mood in a change of life from a death to a birth. all songs have a meaning to an individual no matter who we are ! but the meaning i get from the song never changes a true life song
Wikipedia: DANAE STRATOU She is married to Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister and renowned economist. Her mother is Eleni Potaga-Stratou, a Greek modern artist, and her father is Phaidron Stratos from the family Stratos who founded the Peiraiki-Patraiki textile industry in Patras, Peloponnese, Greece’s largest textile industry in the past. It has been speculated that she was the subject of Pulp's hit "Common People". Stratou studied fine arts at the London Institute Central School of Art and Design (now Central Saint Martins) between 1983 and 1988
@@kylieminogue2169 sorry, I do not know why you say I lack manners...maybe it is because my English is not fine, as it is not my mother language. Sorry anyway 😔
At the Reading 2011 concert, he lead into it saying "If Pulp is only ever remembered for this song, I don't care. It's a good song." So I think he's fine with _Common People_
the thing about music is that it's a form of art, and all perception of art is subjective. Jarvis can sit there with his awkwardly large pop filter on a gaming headset for a mic in front of an audience broadcast live for the whole world and say "this is EXACTLY what the song is"...and while it might color the perception for some, in the end of it all, no one will ever be in that bar talking to that girl. the experience of that song is on each and every audience member (no matter how many times they go back to it) to understand it based on their personal experiences. maybe the lyrics resonate because it's a silly concept. maybe they resonate because of nostalgia for having those kinds of conversations. maybe the song resonates because he sings "in 30 seconds time" at the 30 seconds mark of the playback. maybe the song resonates because the keyboard blairing has a tone of young and free spirited rock n roll. maybe the song is a bunch of noise and complete pop trash compared to the sophistications of Joseph Haydn. maybe it resonates because the drums and keys melody syncopation fit a rap flow, and it's an original beat to throw bars down over. whatever it is, the audience feels and comprehends and denotes understanding from, it won't be won't be a universal understanding, and it certainly will NOT accurate to what the songwriters were feeling when they wrote it, and what the songwriters do feel while performing it.
It was based in the Greek finance ministers wife, how's that for you? How can he be comfortable wearing those ear phones and that big yellow mike in front of his gob?
The truth is isn't in who slept with who or not. The truth lies in lines like "if you called your dad he could stop it all". That's reality. For some people that's true. For some people, not at all.
Common People was lifted from a spanish band. The original is called Los Amantes. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sRlot9Anzbg.html Cocker wrote the lyrics but the melody was lifted.
