A. The Pulp ' Common People'
The first Thing that comes in our mind
when we saw the lyrics, without see the Video is, we do not know
where's the band from, and the only clue is this song talks about a
woman and a man that came from different background, from the lyrics
the woman is not from working class people, she might be came from
Ruling class family, because she thinks that being poor is cool,
'I want to live like common people,
I want to do whatever common people
do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people
like you'.
After watched the video, we got more
clue, when they were went to the supermarket, there is an Old Lady
wore pink hat, our Next Guessing is the Old lady Represented Queen
Elizabeth, and this band is from England, we are lack of Information,
and trying to get more information from the internet and that's true,
the pulp is English band.
The man doesn't know why but he took
the woman to the supermarket, he said pretend you've got no money,
she just laughed and said, 'Oh you're so funny'.
Based in our understanding, the reason
why this man took her to the supermarket because the supermarket is
the place where the wealth and poor meet. They are buying stuff in
there, and it is a good place to start when the woman wanna live with
common people and do whatever common people do. Then the man replied,
' You'll never live like common
people,
you'll never do what common people
do,
you'll never fail like common
people,
you'll never watch your life slide
out of view,
and dance and drink and screw,
because there's nothing else to do. This is enough to explain the
woman's life, she is from wealthy family, she doesn't have to concern
about her life, about her future, she will never fail like the common
people, her life's already set up, all she needs just to follow the
line, unlike the common people that have to struggling with their
life, and work hard for the better life in the future.
Based on our understanding, Georg Lucacs's theory about Reflection
theory is the most suitable theory that fits in this song, because
its reflected the social condition and contradiction in the society
that we already know. Like the wealth family tend to get whatever
they want, unlike the working class people that have to struggling to
get what they want, and the poor people never get the same chance as
the ruling class people.