[s]Blessed Benediction wrote on 11:34, 22nd Apr 2003:
is Britpop still regarded as the very summit of cool Britania?
As far as I can remember Cool Britania was a phrase coined by some American magazine regarding our abundance of transatlantically-high profile fashion designers and film makers in the mid-ish 90's. Then Cool Britania became a pathetic PR stunt by new Labour just after their election in '97(right year?) but that's not the point.
Britpop, as popular as it was over here , made very little impact abroad, especially in the US. I don't think Britpop was ever much of a part of Cool Britania really, except the N.L. version when Noel Gallagher got invited to Downing Street for tea.
I mean, Oasis have been repeatedly hyped and ignored over the pond. Blur are apparently know as "the woo-hoooo guys" (thanks to Song 2) over there. Not really the pinacle (or summit) of anything.
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