I was going to say how he is the spokesperson for a generation and a master songwriter. I still will but your comment made me snort orange juice out my nose, so you win.
@@AC-mp7cx Why because a working class lad from Sheffield thought that some US child lover with a God complex needed taking down a peg? I hope you're American because frankly if you're British you're a disgrace mate.
For Jarvis it was a brief encounter with a woman that turned into an iconic song. I was sure it was based on a true story. For me, living in Colorado for 30 years, I have had three very real Common People encounters so this song has a powerful yet laughable meaning. That's the beauty of music, story telling and poetry! It will always be someone's truth even if written by another. A fun interview to watch, thanks for posting.
Pretty cool hey... I'm also very fortunate to say I had the real common people experience... we used to have lots of exchange students at the Uni, I met this amazing Spanish girl and we had our "students affair"... pretty cool to look back to those experiences...
The story doesn't need to have actually happened to him. It's a great song because it's true. Anyone who has ever lived in the North of England has similar tales of posh, rich southern students, dipping their toes in the real world for the first time, finding beans on toast a novelty instead of a grim reality. It's a game to them and one they can always flee from when it becomes too uncomfortable, hence the juxtaposition of cockroaches on the wall but Daddy being able to stop it all. That isn't an option for people like the song's narrator. It's their permanent reality. "You will never understand/what it means to live your life/with no meaning or control/and with nowhere left to go/you're amazed that they exist/but they burn so bright while you can only wonder "why?". Brilliant lyric.
That one struck me because “uncommon” people are not immune from it. It’s very nice to have resources, but once you’re used to it other things are just as needed.
One of the greatest musical talents of the UK. It's pleasure to listen to him as he is just so wise (on most things). My boring ramblings here do not compare not though to Noodle Hat's comment of "Jarvis needs a bigger microphone". I am sure JC would love that comment!
Music is art. The beauty of art is it's left to the listener/observers interpretation. No matter where the inspiration comes from, it becomes a personal interpretation and connection. That's what makes it amazing and enduring.
@@josephancion2190 I pretend it's me!!! Then I recall I'm more of an "UNskillfully avoiding the dog turd outside the corner shop (or whatever)" kind of bird 🤣😅❤❤❤
Some of us lived it. I had a girl I dated in college who told me she was “slumming it” with me. She date me but never marry me she said. Her father was the CEO of the Jane Goodall foundation, her mother was worked for big oil and looked for oil underneath tectonic plates.
Wikipedia: DANAE STRATOU She is married to Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister and renowned economist. Her mother is Eleni Potaga-Stratou, a Greek modern artist, and her father is Phaidron Stratos from the family Stratos who founded the Peiraiki-Patraiki textile industry in Patras, Peloponnese, Greece’s largest textile industry in the past. It has been speculated that she was the subject of Pulp's hit "Common People". Stratou studied fine arts at the London Institute Central School of Art and Design (now Central Saint Martins) between 1983 and 1988
@@kylieminogue2169 sorry, I do not know why you say I lack manners...maybe it is because my English is not fine, as it is not my mother language. Sorry anyway 😔
You'll never understand How it feels to live your life With no meaning or control And with nowhere left to go You're amazed that they exist They burn so bright, whilst You can only wonder: Why?
most people project onto a songs story or e;ements of the lines so I understand any reticence for disturbing that process which make people question themselves, face themselves, and perhaps provide themselves with some catharsis.
'Jarvis Cocker: The approximate answer to his song 'Common People' might be a more appropriate title. The real story is that he was protecting the source material of the person where the conversation came up in the first place.
the thing about music is that it's a form of art, and all perception of art is subjective. Jarvis can sit there with his awkwardly large pop filter on a gaming headset for a mic in front of an audience broadcast live for the whole world and say "this is EXACTLY what the song is"...and while it might color the perception for some, in the end of it all, no one will ever be in that bar talking to that girl. the experience of that song is on each and every audience member (no matter how many times they go back to it) to understand it based on their personal experiences. maybe the lyrics resonate because it's a silly concept. maybe they resonate because of nostalgia for having those kinds of conversations. maybe the song resonates because he sings "in 30 seconds time" at the 30 seconds mark of the playback. maybe the song resonates because the keyboard blairing has a tone of young and free spirited rock n roll. maybe the song is a bunch of noise and complete pop trash compared to the sophistications of Joseph Haydn. maybe it resonates because the drums and keys melody syncopation fit a rap flow, and it's an original beat to throw bars down over. whatever it is, the audience feels and comprehends and denotes understanding from, it won't be won't be a universal understanding, and it certainly will NOT accurate to what the songwriters were feeling when they wrote it, and what the songwriters do feel while performing it.
it depends how your feeling your mood in a change of life from a death to a birth. all songs have a meaning to an individual no matter who we are ! but the meaning i get from the song never changes a true life song
It was based in the Greek finance ministers wife, how's that for you? How can he be comfortable wearing those ear phones and that big yellow mike in front of his gob?
Common People was lifted from a spanish band. The original is called Los Amantes. ruclips.net/video/sRlot9Anzbg/видео.html Cocker wrote the lyrics but the melody was lifted.
The truth is isn't in who slept with who or not. The truth lies in lines like "if you called your dad he could stop it all". That's reality. For some people that's true. For some people, not at all.
It's been hypothesised that the woman in question is the wife of Janis Varufakis, otherwise a scion of a greek shipping moghul. She did study art at St. Martins, and should be of an age with Jarvis, and greek, and pretty posh - you know, the champagne socialist type that wants to sleep with common people ;)
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Jarvis needs a bigger microphone
It's outrageous lol!
Lmao I just noticed it why is it so big?? It must be half the size of his face
wahahaha
🤣👌
I was going to say how he is the spokesperson for a generation and a master songwriter.
I still will but your comment made me snort orange juice out my nose, so you win.
He's a national treasure.
I presume you're speaking about Charlie?
@@calvinjonesyoutube I assume too.
his whole life is defined by him humiliating himself at the brit awards
@@AC-mp7cx Why because a working class lad from Sheffield thought that some US child lover with a God complex needed taking down a peg? I hope you're American because frankly if you're British you're a disgrace mate.
For Jarvis it was a brief encounter with a woman that turned into an iconic song. I was sure it was based on a true story. For me, living in Colorado for 30 years, I have had three very real Common People encounters so this song has a powerful yet laughable meaning. That's the beauty of music, story telling and poetry! It will always be someone's truth even if written by another. A fun interview to watch, thanks for posting.
back when i worked at the fox theater in boulder, there was a lot of it going on
Pretty cool hey... I'm also very fortunate to say I had the real common people experience... we used to have lots of exchange students at the Uni, I met this amazing Spanish girl and we had our "students affair"... pretty cool to look back to those experiences...
his whole life is defined by him humiliating himself at the brit awards
I love Jarvis's sense of humour.
+Renee Gilbert where?
+RM R ... located in his brain?
He's got a Minion hugging his beard.
🤣🤣
LOL.
From the thumbnail to this video it looks like Jarvis is levitating a lemon.
you mean he wasn't?
LOL
The story doesn't need to have actually happened to him. It's a great song because it's true. Anyone who has ever lived in the North of England has similar tales of posh, rich southern students, dipping their toes in the real world for the first time, finding beans on toast a novelty instead of a grim reality. It's a game to them and one they can always flee from when it becomes too uncomfortable, hence the juxtaposition of cockroaches on the wall but Daddy being able to stop it all.
That isn't an option for people like the song's narrator. It's their permanent reality.
"You will never understand/what it means to live your life/with no meaning or control/and with nowhere left to go/you're amazed that they exist/but they burn so bright while you can only wonder "why?".
Brilliant lyric.
You’re quite the recent comment on a old video
Curious that he equates existential depression with a class status, but he was clearly young when he wrote this.
I aren't being funny mate, but I'm pretty sure the song specifies she were from Greece.
Are you sure the mike is as large as is could be
nope, we need to go bigger!
"You will never understand, how it feels to live your life with no meaning or control"
I am sure we can all relate to that lyric in our own way.
That one struck me because “uncommon” people are not immune from it. It’s very nice to have resources, but once you’re used to it other things are just as needed.
Love it how he hasn't lost his accent
One of the greatest musical talents of the UK. It's pleasure to listen to him as he is just so wise (on most things).
My boring ramblings here do not compare not though to Noodle Hat's comment of "Jarvis needs a bigger microphone". I am sure JC would love that comment!
"Oh no he wasn't!" Love the look of victory in his eyes after that gag. Blinder.
Music is art. The beauty of art is it's left to the listener/observers interpretation. No matter where the inspiration comes from, it becomes a personal interpretation and connection. That's what makes it amazing and enduring.
got to love Cocker.
I would ask him about "I spy"...would be really interesting to know the background story of this awesome song.
Ye
I wonder what girl should have the blue plaque over her chest...
@@josephancion2190 I pretend it's me!!! Then I recall I'm more of an "UNskillfully avoiding the dog turd outside the corner shop (or whatever)" kind of bird 🤣😅❤❤❤
Jarvis legend brilliant singer songwriter.
his whole life is defined by him humiliating himself at the brit awards
Jarvis is an underestimate indie legend.
He's a national treasure.
How can he be comfortable wearing those ear phones and that big yellow mike in front of his gob?
Nice.
such a gentleman
It doesn't matter whether it was real or not song writing is a form of story telling and sometimes stories are fiction.well done jarvis.
How can you expect Jarvis to explain The Anthem of Brit Pop,
You dont explain that, you just enjoy it
Jarvis is king of britpop. brilliant song writter just awesome
OK, you guys want to know who she is:
Danae Stratou
Look her up and you'll see why Jarvis wanted to stop that question before it was even asked.
Spouse of Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek minister of finance. "She was loaded".
@Raw Engineer Yes, I think it's pretty obvious due to she was at university, a very young woman. But why do you think he's became embarrassed?
It's not about her. She's blonde and Jarvis confirmed the girl she's talking about on the song is brunette.
Straight talking, always loved that about ol' Jarvis...future British prime minister please.
Doesn't matter whether the story is true or not, it's a fantastic piece of writing.
Are you sure the mike is as large as is could be
Nice.
Charming Jarvis ridiculous mic
GOD, Jarvis is perfect
Nice.
Charming Jarvis ridiculous mic
GOD, Jarvis is perfect
Some of us lived it. I had a girl I dated in college who told me she was “slumming it” with me. She date me but never marry me she said. Her father was the CEO of the Jane Goodall foundation, her mother was worked for big oil and looked for oil underneath tectonic plates.
Wikipedia: DANAE STRATOU She is married to Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek finance minister and renowned economist. Her mother is Eleni Potaga-Stratou, a Greek modern artist, and her father is Phaidron Stratos from the family Stratos who founded the Peiraiki-Patraiki textile industry in Patras, Peloponnese, Greece’s largest textile industry in the past. It has been speculated that she was the subject of Pulp's hit "Common People".
Stratou studied fine arts at the London Institute Central School of Art and Design (now Central Saint Martins) between 1983 and 1988
@@kylieminogue2169 I love Common People and Disco 2000 above all. Superb✨✨
@@kylieminogue2169 Madrid, Spaiin 🤗🤗
@@kylieminogue2169 Sunny ☀️ but only 12º centigrades ☺️ Who are you? 🙄
@@kylieminogue2169 I mean if you are really Jarvis Cocker
@@kylieminogue2169 sorry, I do not know why you say I lack manners...maybe it is because my English is not fine, as it is not my mother language. Sorry anyway 😔
this interview is oddly wholesome
"Let's hear it for Charlie ladies and gentlemen."
Charlie: the cause of, and solution to, all of Britpop's problems.
actual question is at 0:50 ty
GOD, Jarvis is perfect
You'll never understand
How it feels to live your life
With no meaning or control
And with nowhere left to go
You're amazed that they exist
They burn so bright, whilst
You can only wonder: Why?
The vidéo is hilarious.
Love this song❤
(Was it Danae Stratou?) 🤣
Joke!!
How can he be comfortable wearing those ear phones and that big yellow mike in front of his gob?
he's jarvis, he just goes with the flow
It doesn't matter if it's true or not - Captain Kirk actually performed it.
Nice.
Charming Jarvis ridiculous mic
such a gentleman
He's got a Minion hugging his beard.
Nice.
Charming Jarvis ridiculous mic
GOD, Jarvis is perfect
Jarvis is amazing 💗
Adoro esse cara ,acho linda a sua trajetória
Charming Jarvis ridiculous mic
got to love Cocker.
Nice.
Charming Jarvis ridiculous mic
such a gentleman
such a gentleman
Nice.
Charming Jarvis ridiculous mic
such a gentleman
most people project onto a songs story or e;ements of the lines so I understand any reticence for disturbing that process which make people question themselves, face themselves, and perhaps provide themselves with some catharsis.
'Jarvis Cocker: The approximate answer to his song 'Common People' might be a more appropriate title. The real story is that he was protecting the source material of the person where the conversation came up in the first place.
"never let the truth get in the way of a good story" Laley Heron
Is there a video of the whole show?
That microphone is almost as big as Jarvis's head!
Doesn't have to be "autobiographic". He found inspiration from an experience/fantasy and wrote a great song.
Brilliant song!
Hilarious video.
the song (for me) really is an anthem for the time, but also for the working class. i'll die on that hill.
After listen to this...I am sure that God is British......What a Masterpiece
This guy is a genius.
It's about Danae Stratou, Yanis Varoufakis' wife.
the thing about music is that it's a form of art, and all perception of art is subjective. Jarvis can sit there with his awkwardly large pop filter on a gaming headset for a mic in front of an audience broadcast live for the whole world and say "this is EXACTLY what the song is"...and while it might color the perception for some, in the end of it all, no one will ever be in that bar talking to that girl. the experience of that song is on each and every audience member (no matter how many times they go back to it) to understand it based on their personal experiences. maybe the lyrics resonate because it's a silly concept. maybe they resonate because of nostalgia for having those kinds of conversations. maybe the song resonates because he sings "in 30 seconds time" at the 30 seconds mark of the playback. maybe the song resonates because the keyboard blairing has a tone of young and free spirited rock n roll. maybe the song is a bunch of noise and complete pop trash compared to the sophistications of Joseph Haydn. maybe it resonates because the drums and keys melody syncopation fit a rap flow, and it's an original beat to throw bars down over. whatever it is, the audience feels and comprehends and denotes understanding from, it won't be won't be a universal understanding, and it certainly will NOT accurate to what the songwriters were feeling when they wrote it, and what the songwriters do feel while performing it.
❤ Jarvis
Ok but Dronfield isn’t classed as Sheffield?!
Nice.
Charming Jarvis ridiculous mic
such a gentleman
How can he be comfortable wearing those ear phones and that big yellow mike in front of his gob?
Nice.
Are you sure the mike is as large as is could be
Jarvis is True and so amazing
Wait is Jarvis miked up here? Can't quite see.
If they just kept the music playing instrumental it could have been a whole new verse
Where's the whole thing?
it depends how your feeling your mood in a change of life from a death to a birth. all songs have a meaning to an individual no matter who we are ! but the meaning i get from the song never changes a true life song
It was based in the Greek finance ministers wife, how's that for you?
such a gentleman
Nice.
Charming Jarvis ridiculous mic
such a gentleman
LEGEND
I'd ask him whose version he thinks is better. Bowie or Shatner? 😁
@@kylieminogue2169 You're welcome 😁
@@kylieminogue2169 So you won't play favorites? You love both versions?
@@kylieminogue2169 Brooklyn NY
Yes but jarvis you once wrote a song called 'do you remember the common people' i wonder do you??
He's a national treasure.
He's got a Minion hugging his beard.
Are you sure the mike is as large as is could be
🙀 What no night, night with the common person ? Oh dear ! 😿
I'll never be this cool.
Jarvis sporting the world's most colorful goiter.
Why are they wearing headphones and a microphone
what did the guy say "i think your dad ran ________" what was it
I like that he was honest. Sigh.
btw that mic is huge
National Treasure. 'Los Amantes' by Mecano (1988), oh well.
such a gentleman
It was based in the Greek finance ministers wife, how's that for you?
That's not actually true. The person the song is about has actually come out.
That giant microphone lmao
Macrophone
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How can he be comfortable wearing those ear phones and that big yellow mike in front of his gob?
It was based in the Greek finance ministers wife, how's that for you?
How can he be comfortable wearing those ear phones and that big yellow mike in front of his gob?
Truth in fiction
Common People was lifted from a spanish band. The original is called Los Amantes. ruclips.net/video/sRlot9Anzbg/видео.html Cocker wrote the lyrics but the melody was lifted.
ROY FR And thank God it was. Dreadful original song
@@Nolangainsborough How do you know? Do you speak Spanish? I guess no one takes any responsibility or is called out these days.
Dont be an idiot - did you listen to it? The tune? Of course not - Of course you didn't. I guess no one takes the responsibility to think these days.
@@Nolangainsborough I doubt if you have even listened to it... The similarity is ridiculous.
It’s quite an angry song, bit like Rolling Stone by Dylan.
This is exactly what I thought it was. Still a cool song though
The truth is isn't in who slept with who or not. The truth lies in lines like "if you called your dad he could stop it all". That's reality. For some people that's true. For some people, not at all.
such a huge mic jajaajajajaja
All those mics and u cant hear anything lol
y la cucaracha de la pared?
Nobody thinks we all live in a Yellow Submarine.... 😊
I hate the fact that I've accidentally become the spoiled girl in the story.
No one ever asks about Disco 2000.
He looks a lot like Salman Rushdie lol
Charlie also a name of a bloke? Who knew...
think of charlie chaplin
@@ilexdiapason Good grief, Charlie Brown.
What a great interview, I'm Cocker hoop.But Bacon was a bit Rash er.
It's been hypothesised that the woman in question is the wife of Janis Varufakis, otherwise a scion of a greek shipping moghul. She did study art at St. Martins, and should be of an age with Jarvis, and greek, and pretty posh - you know, the champagne socialist type that wants to sleep with common people ;)
I had the misfortune of knowing (not in the Biblical sense) the lady in question...permanently put me off all “art”forms.
ah the comment section......
like any of us are special....
funny but I thought the william shatner version was more moving and I was no fan of Shatner
prince charmless I
JAVIS WHY DIDNT U JUST LIE ¬