Jarvis Cocker is a very funny man and a very witty man too, and he showcases this in Pulp's breakthrough album Different Class. Of course I'd already heard 'Common People' and 'Disco 2000' before, but the album has a lot more than that. Like the openener 'Mis-Shapes' which is so grandly theatrical it's close to being over the top, but doesn't quite get there.
Jarvis turns most of his wit on this album to sex, from 'Pencil Skirt' where he whispers "I really love it when you tell me to stop. Oh, it's turning me on" to the gleeful malevolence on 'I-Spy' where he sings about sleeping with sleeping with a married woman either as a form of class war or as some kind of revenge, you can never tell which.
But he also sings about class on 'Common People' which articulated the perverse practice of slumming it with the most insightful line: "And the stupid things that you do. Because you think that poor is cool."
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