Britpop was a mid-1990s British-based music culture movement that emphasised Britishness.
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13 Facts About Britpop
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Britpop was a media-driven focus on bands which emerged from the independent music scene of the early 1990s.
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Commercially, Britpop lost out to teen pop, while artistically it segued into a post-Britpop indie movement, associated with bands such as Travis and Coldplay.
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Britpop bands show elements from the British pop music of the 1960s, glam rock and punk rock of the 1970s, and indie pop of the 1980s in their music, attitude, and clothing.
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In contrast to the dourness of grunge, Britpop was defined by "youthful exuberance and desire for recognition".
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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.
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Term "Britpop" arose when the media were drawing on the success of British designers and films, the Young British Artists such as Damien Hirst, and on the mood of optimism with the decline of John Major's government, and the rise of the youthful Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party.
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Chart battle between Blur and Oasis, dubbed "The Battle of Britpop", brought Britpop to the forefront of the British press in 1995.
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Britpop noted that he and Blur frontman Damon Albarn – with whom Gallagher had enjoyed multiple musical collaborations during the 2010s – were now friends.
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Music critic Jon Savage pinpointed Be Here Now as the moment where Britpop ended; Savage said that while the album "isn't the great disaster that everybody says", he commented that "[i]t was supposed to be the big, big triumphal record" of the period.
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Post-Britpop bands used elements from 1970s British rock and pop music.
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Viva Brother were described as "launch[ing] an update on Britpop, called Gritpop" with their debut album, Famous First Words, although they did not receive great support from the specialised music press.
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The media can take the Britpop and stick it as far up the back entry of the country houses as they can take it.
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