4/11/2023 0 Comments Blur members![]() Oasis were ostensibly working class, with two brothers as frontmen, Liam and Noel Gallagher, who had been playing music together since they were kids. Oasis were from the north of the country, they were from Manchester. ![]() Although Oasis and Blur were both Britpop, they were very different. There were other bands, such as Suede and Pulp, but they weren’t really in the same category, at least of popularity. And Oasis and Blur were the kings of Britpop. As Britpop became more and more popular, the media latched onto this cultural phenomenon to try to drive more and more interest in it - the popularity of Britpop, at least from a cultural interest point of view, was powered by a huge amount of interest from the media. The song that sold the most copies of its single got to number one, simple. The charts, the position in the rankings of what song was the most popular that week, what song was ‘number one’, was decided by how many copies of a song was sold each week. The singles served the purpose of being an advert for the future album, and also being a nice way for record labels to sell songs twice - once as a single, and again as part of the album. How this would work is that a band would make an album, but one or more singles, the single songs, would be released before the album, and then also after the album was released. And, unlike in the era of Spotify and streaming, actually selling music was big business in the 1990s. Bands at this time would pose in front of the Union Jack, the British flag, and they would sing about very British things. Britpop celebrated the very fact that it was British. It emerged as a reaction to this fixation with American, dark music, instead Britpop was optimistic and celebratory. Britpop was a celebration of all things British, it was a reaction to the dark, grunge type rock music that was coming out of the US, stuff like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. These two bands were at the forefront of a movement called Britpop, British pop music, which was a musical and cultural movement that emerged in the 1990s. Oasis are far better known internationally now, as the band stayed together for a lot longer, but back in the mid 1990s they were both incredibly popular in the UK. I imagine you will have heard of Oasis, and you may well have heard of Blur too. So if that is of interest, and I can't see a reason why it wouldn't be, then the place to go to is. This is also where you can check out becoming a member of Leonardo English and join a community of curious minds from all over the world, doing meetups, exchanging ideas, and generally improving their English in a more interesting way. Before we get right into that though, let me quickly remind you that you can get all of the bonus episodes, plus the subtitles, that transcript and the key vocabulary for this episode and all of our other ones over on the website, which is. Through this story you’ll learn about British culture, regional rivalries, and the UK in the 90s, so I hope you’ll enjoy it. We haven’t really had that many music-themed episodes yet, so I’m really excited to share this one with you today. I'm Alastair Budge and today we are going to be talking about the battle of Blur vs. The show where you can listen to fascinating stories, and learn weird and wonderful things about the world at the same time as improving your English. ![]() Alastair Budge: Hello, hello hello, and welcome to English Learning for Curious Minds, by Leonardo English.
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