What does this revisited Englishness consist of, though?
"Well, Morissey's Englishness was about icons. The more he came to rely on
them, the further his music deteriorated, interestingly: Ours is a much more
everyday, modern Englishness, a blander form, almost. It's to do with streets
and rain and Underground stations, the claustrophobic British family, the
undertones of repressed emotion and sexuality. The slightly sinister routine
patterns of English life. I have a very romantic view of these things."
Another essential feature, according to Jarvis, singer with fellow London group
Pulp, is a keenly developed sense of irony. This, he contends, stems from the
weather. "There are always so many things you want to do, but can't because
it's raining. If we didn't apppreciate irony, we couldn't live here."
Is it irony that leads Brett Anderson, on the final chorus of the Suede song
"My Insatiable One," to substitute the word "insatiable" with "inflatable"? Or
is it simply that most celebrated of English qualities, eccentricity? Whatever
it is, it's in the air again.
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