It’s partly about the riots, and the government is in the background, but mostly it’s about the psychology of class. You’d have to go back to the mid-90s, with Common People and A Design for Life (both of which were, in part, reactions to the perceived proto-chav mockery of Blur’s Parklife), to find equivalently complex treatments of class in mainstream British pop.
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