Britpop Research into a music

genre

• Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock, that originates from the United Kingdom and emerged from the independent music scene during the 1990’s.

• Influenced by the British pop music of 1960’s and 1970’s • Britpop was developed as a reaction to worldwide musical

and cultural trends, particularly the grunge trend from the United States.

• The movement was launched by bands Suede and Blur clashing and positioning them selves as opposing musical forces.

• Bands Oasis, Pulp, Supergrass, Sleeper, Elastica and The Verve joined the new musically genre

• Britpop music was influenced by British guitar music of the pas, especially genres like British Invasion, glam rock and punk rock

• Blur and Oasis were inspired from The Kinks and The Beatles • All Britpop artists projected a sense of reverence for the

sounds of the past• Influence from the band The Smiths was common to most

Britpop bands • The Manchester scene fronted by The Stone roses, Happy

Mondays and Inspirational Carpets• Britpop groups were defined by being focused on bands

rather than solo artists having drums/bass/guitar/vocals• Wrote lyrics that were meant to be relevant to British young

people of their own generation

Influences

• The origins of Britpop come from the indie scene of the early 1990s • Journalist John Harris has suggested that Britpop began when Blur's

single “Popscene” and Suede's “The Drowners” were released around the same time in the spring of 1992

• Parklife Blurs 3rd studio album became the most popular album of 1994, and coupled with the death of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain in April of that year it seemed that British alternative rock had finally turned back the tide of grunge dominance