Common People By Pulp, 'song analysis'

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.

• This song is very Tricky, actually we still need more information to characterize this song to the Theory that we have learned about Marxism.

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.