Pulp - Common People Reaction (Fish Out Of Water Series)

[@sarahzentexas]

So I was in Paris in 1998, and we went to this club in what had formerly been a church. That’s where I was drunk, happy, and dancing the first time I ever heard this song. 💃🏼❤️

[@mijmijrm]

it's rare for lyrics to be genuinely significant

[@marlecmarine5393]

An absolute masterpiece ! inspired by a girl Jarvis Cocker met at St Martin's Art College in Central London, literally everyone in the UK knows and loves this song🙂about the class divisions, Royalty, Lords, Ladies and the common people, wealth and poverty in the UK. nice reaction..🙂.

[@JulijaColumb]

​​@@thesedreamsarefreearvis said it was not her

[@javimessiking1516]

Pulp was the best of the Brit-Pop era. Superior to both Oasis and Blur IMO

[@RedDevil_Joe]

Please lol

[@javimessiking1516]

@@RedDevil_Joe never been a big fan of Oasis and I do like Blur but at the very least Pulp's peak was higher than both bands

[@RedDevil_Joe]

@@javimessiking1516 well in terms of what though because Oasis were clearly the biggest

[@javimessiking1516]

@@RedDevil_Joe in terms of my opinion😆. All joking aside all 3 bands are quality. Oasis were the biggest stars of course but it's a matter of musical taste

[@drummonkey9291]

Nah blur had it over them both. Albarns later exploits prove his musical prowess. Part of my childhood tho so have hot some love for the others too.

[@danic9304]

This whole album is solid gold.

[@oli19]

The album "Different Class" is exactly that.

[@davidhughes4089]

Yes - love Pulp and love this reaction channel! I hope you're doing well mate.

[@bigneon_glitter]

Jarvis Cocker [lead singer of Pulp] - Fat Children This is the banger you're looking for. And just about every track off _Different Class_ is perfection. Classic album.

[@yomo1690]

Fat children is great

[@ponfed]

Safari.. that's the right word. That's exactly what he wanted to portrait with this song.

[@sopyleecrypt6899]

I’d forgotten how good this song was. It was huge in 90s UK.

[@TheoZoffrok]

Pulp were *so* great. Warmly recommend their albums His & Hers, Different Class, This Is Hardcore, and We Love Life, which is a bit of a Lost Classic. Sunrise is an EPIC song.

[@bigneon_glitter]

_We Love Life_ is underrated. "The Trees" & "Weeds" are top Pulp.

[@adamdodgshon638]

Sunrise is flipping incredible. I LOVE it. Weeds is brilliant too. That whole album is definitely overlooked.

[@JC-es5un]

“This is hardcore” and “Help the aged” are great Pulp songs

[@yomo1690]

This song is epic live. Apparently it was partly a true story where a rich girl at a pub at University said this to him.

[@willrichardson519]

Poetic licence embellished that seed to give us this epic, classic.

[@agemoth]

The video for this is classic! (except for the one eye symbolism.)

[@direnova6284]

Best song about the wealth gap ever.

[@handsomestik]

William Shatner cover is good

[@agemoth]

Reminds me of the classic old 60s film 'Up The Junction' with Dennis Waterman, where a rich girl decides to live like 'the common people'.. She buys a crap flat and gets a crap job and everything seems like a laugh until she meets a 'common' man who fantasises about being rich..

[@stevomcneill]

gosh, i'm looking that up right now. Up The Junction was a nice tune by Squeeze.

[@commonsense9176]

This came out when I was put on the dole so it has a soft spot in my hart

[@bareakon]

I'm still not living comfortably; working long hours for bad pay and rent that's way too high, starving in the leadup to payday each month. But if a pretentious rich girl offers me a free drink and sex for showing her the lifestyle I'll put up with it (and get some freebies and rent assistance while I'm at it) for maybe a few weeks before the dam bursts and I wouldn't be able to resist blasting this song.

[@mickylove76]

Jarvis is a really good songwriter.

[@adamwells9352]

Yeah, if you've ever had that "bitch what did you call me?" moment, this song's for you... My friends and I were debating what was the angriest song, and I picked this one. It is a _righteous_ anger.

[@user-jq7di9pz8m]

This is something of an anthem in the UK, everyone knows this one

[@dougoneill7266]

This was/is a British anthem. Different Class is a great album

[@rainyfriday6175]

This song really hits home for me becuase I grew up in the projects but I took a lot of honors and ap classes with the preppy rich kids and I would always be treated like some sort of special case. I remember when there was a shooting in my neighborhood and the next day everyone wanted to know about it. I even overheard someone saying how cool it was that I was there. Like, bro, it was terrifying. It’s not cool at all.

[@stevomcneill]

"Because you think that poor is cool" :-)

[@Peter-ih2tn]

Exposing the class system in England, great. For a less political song by the same band, try "A little soul".

[@balthazarbeutelwolf9097]

I think there is a small difference between American and British English when it comes to the use of the phrase "common people", because there is still an aristocracy in the uk with an aristocratic lifestyle which is not solely based on wealth, e.g. the Middleton are commoners despite being wealthy, and despite their daughter having married a future king.

[@richey4287]

I Spy is a great track by Pulp worth reacting to. In fact, the whole album 'A Different Class' is brilliant.

[@martinvalentine9228]

Checking out Jarvis solo tune "Cunts are still running the world" is a must.

[@ilept]

nice. more britpop pls. noel gallagher - the right stuff

[@hahatoldyouso]

TUNE

[@westleyjohnstone4719]

No one ever mentiones I spy by pulp

[@brendacowling4219]

Interesting that this guy didn't have a clue what this was about musically or socially. Guy needs to give up his channel because he has no insight or knowledge.

[@fishoutofwaterseries1424]

So instead of educating me you rather insult me. Put me on and tell me what I'm not understanding could have been better than tearing me down

[@stevomcneill]

he was 6 yo when i was reveling in this, and it's amazing to me when any american reacts to this and enjoys it. let people discover. are you the expert?