Do you fucking hate Britpop?
I fucking hate that word, mate!
Liam Gallagher, nell’intervista rilasciata a Taylor Hawkins (il batterista dei Foo Fighters) per Magnet magazine, ha dichiarato di odiare la definizione Britpop.
L’ex frontman degli Oasis, fresco di debutto solista con As You Were, ha continuato motivando il suo disappunto nei confronti del termine:
When Oasis came out and all these other bands came out at the same time, and the critics they love to use this kind of a word to describe one genre, but there’s nothin’ like it.
La nascita del cosiddetto Britpop è convenzionalmente fatta risalire negli anni ’80, le band di quel periodo cercarono di riattualizzare le melodie degli anni sessanta e settanta coniugandole con le tematiche della new wave o della dance music, sfruttando le nuove tecniche produttive.
Liam, però, non ritiene esatto inquadrare Oasis e The Verve come band pop:
We weren’t fucking pop. To me, I felt it was us and the Verve. We were different scenes, were like a classic rock ’n’ roll band. Britpop to me was Pulp, Menswear, Blur, all these stupid little Camden bands that were all jolly as fuck, you know what I mean? We wanted to play, man. I personally always found that word fucking insulting.
The Verve and Oasis. We were thinking way bigger than Britpop. We were a classic rock ’n’ roll band.It’s just fucking journalists, isn’t it? Lazy cunts. I felt like Blur and all that- they were doing like just jolly kind of weird, fucking stupid music. “Champagne Supernova” is a boss fucking tune.
They were all jumping about it with their fingers in their ears.
Giusta o meno che sia, è curioso notare come la posizione di Liam coincida perfettamente con quella di Graham Coxon. Il chitarrista dei Blur lo dichiara senza mezzi termini in No Distance Left To Run del 2009 – il documentario che racconta la parabola artistica e personale dei Blur, fino alla reunion.
