This document discusses the rise of Britpop music in the UK during the 1990s, focusing on the bands Blur and Oasis. It describes how Britpop emerged as a reaction to grunge and developed uniquely British themes. Blur and Oasis achieved mainstream popularity and a chart battle between the two bands came to symbolize the Britpop movement. The genre helped popularize British alternative rock internationally but declined in popularity by the late 1990s.

1. POP MUSIC IN
BRITAIN
AND THE USA
THE 1990s

2. BRIT POP

3. ♣ TEHNO MUSIC was started by DJs in the
USA,where rock music was still popular.
♣BRIT POP was played by two successful
bands,BLUR and OASIS,who shared the
number one spot for years.
♣Rave,house,trip,hop,garage music-all
different kinds of dance music-made their
way into British parties.
♣Boys bands and girls bands like The
Backstreet Boys,The Spice Girls and ‘N
Sync started to appear.

4. ♣Britpop is a subgenre of
alternative rock that originated
in the United Kingdom. Britpop
emerged from the British
independent music scene of
the early 1990s and was
characterised by bands
influenced by British guitar pop
music of the 1960s and 1970s.

5. ♣The movement
developed as a
reaction against
various musical and
cultural trends in the
late 1980s and early
1990s, particularly the
grunge phenomenon
from the United
States.

6. ♣British groups such as Suede
and Blur launched the
movement by positioning
themselves as opposing
musical forces, referencing
British guitar music of the past
and writing about uniquely
British topics and concerns.

7. ♣ These bands were soon joined by others
including Oasis, Pulp, Supergrass,
Sleeper, Elastica and The Verve.
♣Britpop groups brought British alternative
rock into the mainstream and formed the
backbone of a larger British cultural
movement called Cool Britannia. Although
its more popular bands were able to
spread their commercial success
overseas, especially to the United States,
the movement largely fell apart by the end
of the decade.

8. ♣Britpop groups were defined by being
focused on bands rather than solo
artists; having
drums/bass/guitar/vocals (and
sometimes keyboards) line-ups;
writing original material and playing
instruments themselves; singing in
regional British accents; references to
British places and culture in lyrics and
image; and fashion consciousness.

9. ♣In spite of the professed disdain
for the genres, some elements of
both crept into the more enduring
facets of Britpop. Noel Gallagher
has since championed Ride. Noel
Gallagher stated in a 1996
interview that Nirvana's
Kurt Cobain was the only
songwriter he had respect for in
the last ten years, and that he felt
their music was similar enough
that Cobain could have written "

10. Happy Mondays in concert

11. Blur (band)
♣ Blur are an English alternative rock band. Formed in
London in 1988 as Seymour, the group consists of
singer/keyboardist Damon Albarn, guitarist/singer
Graham Coxon, bassist Alex James and drummer Dave
Rowntree. Blur's debut album Leisure (1991)
incorporated the sounds of Madchester and shoegazing.
Following a stylistic change influenced by English guitar
pop groups such as The Kinks, The Beatles and XTC,
Blur released Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife
(1994) and The Great Escape (1995). As a result, the
band helped to popularise the Britpop genre and
achieved mass popularity in the UK, aided by a chart
battle with rival band Oasis in 1995 dubbed "The Battle
of Britpop".

13. ♣In
recording their follow-up, Blur
(1997), the band underwent another
reinvention, showing influence from
the lo-fi style of American indie rock
groups. "Song 2", one of the album's
singles, brought Blur mainstream
success in the United States. Their
next album, 13 (1999) saw the band
members experimenting with
electronic and gospel music, and
featured more personal lyrics from
Albarn.

15. ☻
Oasis (band)
Oasis were an English rock band formed in
Manchester in 1991. Originally known as
The Rain, the group was formed by
Liam Gallagher (vocals and tambourine),
Paul "Bonehead" Arthurs (guitar), Paul "
Guigsy" McGuigan (bass guitar) and Tony
McCarroll (drums, percussion), who were
soon joined by Liam's older brother
Noel Gallagher (lead guitar and vocals).

17. ☻Its members were signed to
independent record label Creation Records
and afterwards released their record-setting
debut album Definitely Maybe in 1994. The
following year, the band recorded
(What's the Story) Morning Glory? (1995) with
their new drummer Alan White in the midst of
rivalry with Britpop peers Blur in the charts.
The Gallagher brothers featured regularly in
tabloid newspapers for their sibling disputes
and wild lifestyles. In 1997, Oasis released
their third album, Be Here Now, and although it
became the fastest-selling album in UK chart
history, the album's popularity tapered off
quickly.

19. Peak of
success
♣A chart battle between Blur and
Oasis dubbed "The Battle of
Britpop" brought Britpop to the
forefront of the British press in
1995. The bands had initially
praised each other but over the
course of the year antagonisms
between the two increased.

20. ♣Spurred on by the media, the groups
became engaged in what the NME
dubbed on the cover of its 12 August
issue the "British Heavyweight
Championship" with the pending
release of Oasis' single "Roll With It",
and Blur's "Country House" on the
same day. The battle pitted the two
bands against each other, with the
conflict as much about British class
and regional divisions as it was about
music.

21. ♣By the summer of 1996 Oasis's
prominence was such that NME termed a
number of Britpop bands (including The
Boo Radleys, Ocean Colour Scene and
Cast) as "Noelrock", citing Gallagher's
influence on their success.[26] John Harris
typified this wave of Britpop bands, and
Gallagher, of sharing "a dewy-eyed love of
the 1960s, a spurning of much beyond
rock's most basic ingredients, and a belief
in the supremacy of 'real music'

22. ♣Starting on 10 August 1996, Oasis
played a two-night set at
Knebworth to a combined
audience of 250,000 people, with
one journalist commenting;
"(Knebworth) could be seen as
the last great Britpop
performance; nothing after would
match its scale." The demand for
these gigs was and still is the
largest ever for a concert on
British soil; over 2.6 million
people had applied for tickets.