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}} "Common People" is a song by English alternative rock band Pulp, taken from their 1995 studio album ''Different Class''. It was released as a single in May 1995, reaching number two on the UK singles chart. The song is one of the defining tracks of Britpop, and features in the 2003 compilation album, ''Live Forever: The Rise and Fall of Brit Pop''. The song is about those who were perceived by the songwriter as wanting to be "like common people" and who ascribe glamour to poverty. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as slumming or "class tourism". The song was written by the band members Nick Banks, Jarvis Cocker, Candida Doyle, Steve Mackey and Russell Senior. In 2004, a cover version by William Shatner and produced by Ben Folds brought the song to new audiences outside Europe. ==Inspiration== The idea for the song's lyrics came from a Greek art student whom Pulp singer/songwriter Jarvis Cocker met while he was studying at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Cocker had enrolled on a film studies course at the college in September 1988 while taking a break from Pulp. He spoke about the song's inspiration in ''NME'' in 2013: In a 2012 question and answer session on BBC Radio 5 Live Cocker said that he was having a conversation with the girl at the bar at college because he was attracted to her, although he found some aspects of her personality unpleasant. He remembered that at one point she had told him she "wanted to move to Hackney and live like 'the common people'". Cocker used this phrase as the starting point for the song and embellished the situation for dramatic effect, for example reversing the situation in the song when the female character declares that "I want to sleep with common people like you" (Cocker admitted that in real life he had been the one wanting to sleep with the girl, while she had not been interested in him). Taking this inspiration, the narrator explains that his female acquaintance can "never be like common people", because even if she gets a flat where "roaches climb the wall" ultimately, "if () called () dad he could stop it all", in contrast to the true common people who can only "watch () lives slide out of view". A BBC Three documentary failed to correctly locate the woman, who, Cocker stated, could have been in any fine art course but that "sculpture" sounded better. The lyrics were in part a response by Cocker, who usually focused on the introspective and emotional aspects of pop, to more politically minded members of the band like Russell Senior. Furthermore, Cocker felt that 'slumming' was becoming a dominant theme in popular culture and this contributed to the single's rushed release. Cocker said "it seemed to be in the air, that kind of patronising social voyeurism... I felt that of ''Parklife'', for example, or ''Natural Born Killers'' - there is that noble savage notion. But if you walk round a council estate, there's plenty of savagery and not much nobility going on." In May 2015 Greek newspaper Athens Voice suggested that the woman who inspired the song is Danae Stratou, wife of Yanis Varoufakis, a former Greek Finance minister. Mrs. Stratou studied at St. Martins between 1983 and 1988 and is the eldest daughter of a wealthy Greek businessman.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Is the mystery woman in Pulp's 'Common People' really Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis' wife? )〕 Greek newspaper "Ta Nea" contacted Mrs. Stratou who replied that "I think the only person who knows for whom the song was written is Jarvis himself!". Katerina Kana, a Greek-Cypriot who also studied at St. Martins during that time, has claimed since 2012 that the song was about her, though no actual confirmation as such has come from the song's composer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Common People (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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