"Girls and Boys" - Blur Analysis 1994
- Created by: Bethan Chainey
- Created on: 12-05-16 14:37
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- "Girls and Boys" Blur 1994
- Lyrics
- Deals with sexual roles and the freedom (?) of sexual preference
- The rise of "Lad" culture, the club culture of the 90s. Scuzzy holidays to Ibiza and what not
- Influenced by a holiday they went on to magaluf
- Alot of references to **** time and rise of STD troubles
- Context
- Apparently Thom Yorke said he wished he had wrote it
- The singer just describes it as "a total laugh"
- Named "song of the year" by NME in 1994
- Melody and Stuff
- Chanty Chorus, a dance song making fun of the people who are dancing to it
- Bassline based on octaves
- The drum track is a disco drum track on a drum machine on 120pm
- Bloody Hell
- There was so much cool stuff going on in the 90s, third wave feminist punk like bikini kill, drug addled grungey punky stuff like sonic youth and nirvarna
- The "shoegaze" bands like My Bloody Valentine making awesome phsychadelic songs with weird pedals and experimenting without using a single synth
- You've got sexually ambigous drug addled punk/alt rock like placebo weirding the place up
- You've got grunge and alt rock getting more alt. Even depeche mode had a druggy alt rock phase in the 90s
- This song represents the unthinking masses that would rather listen to it and jump about then listen to all the cool stuff that was happening
- Radiohead were getting weird and deep with "ok computer" in 1997
- There was so much cool stuff going on in the 90s, third wave feminist punk like bikini kill, drug addled grungey punky stuff like sonic youth and nirvarna
- Lyrics
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