It was the best of times, it was…the very best of times. It’s just a shame it was given such a dreadful name.
“It’s a stupid word, in’t it, Britpop,” mused Jarvis Cocker back in 1995, from his vantage point at the newly coined Britpop epicenter. “Britpopnow!” he scoffed. “It’s just something for journalists to write about. But there’s no denying there’s now more chance of decent stuff getting in the charts, it’s come out from the margins of (withering look) ‘indie’, which is obviously great.”
