sschmendrick asked:
Hello ! I am only familiar with classism in the UK on a surface level and I wouldn't be able to understand all the layers with the little I know but I would love to hear what you think of Lovejoy's relationship with classism and why you say it's not that genuinely ragin ! So, would you be ok with elaborating on that ? Thank you so much !
Ah!! When i said genuinely I meant I am ‘genuinely ragin’, just meanin I’m mad! But i appreciate the ask, I am happy to elaborate. disclaimer, I’m not a English politics scholar i just live in north england. I am also middle class. I will also be using Britain n England v specifically through out this. I can also only talk about the white experience in England
I’m gonna talking about The Fall the specifically because its a great vehicle to talk about it, and is one of the best dissections of the modern white upper/middle class attitudes in England I’ve seen.
So the genius https://genius.com/Lovejoy-the-fall-lyrics breakdown of this song does a pretty fuckin’ good job at a majority of the lyrics. So instead I’m gonna talk about some stuff that is harder to capture n summaries in a genius annotations and the things that impact the rest of Loevjoys works and also a lot of wilburs work in YCGMA
CW: Discussions of racism, classism, and colonialism