From the perspective of music style, britpop has inherited the guitar pop style since the beatles era, and also absorbed the pastoral sound and mid-tempo music of the Kinks in the late 1960s (the Who, the Small Faces).

70s psychedelia (David Bowie, T. Rax, Roxy Music), punk and new wave (the Jam, the Buzzcocks, Wire, Madness, XTC, Squeeze, Elvis Costello), and the Alternative guitar pop from the Smiths.

From the content point of view, britpop mostly sings about the lives of contemporary British youths. The colors are mostly gloomy, decadent, and unruly. As a result, it quickly became popular in the British Isles in a short period of time.

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Achievements

At that time, Oasis’ third album Be Here Now (1997) was quite optimistic. The album initially received positive reviews. Sales are booming. But it wasn't long before music critics, consumers, and even Noel Gallagher himself began to criticize the album's over-processed, bloated music.

In the album, Blur abandoned the style of the Parklife era and instead adopted the American Lo-fi music style. When this wave gradually subsided, many bands began to decline and disbanded one after another. The pop group Spice Girls seems to have taken advantage of this situation to replace British rock and become the trend of the times.

Travis, Stereophonics and Coldplay became some of the most popular bands between the late 1990s and early 2000s. They were influenced by British rock (especially Oasis), and their lyrics revealed restrained and introspective lyrics. style, resulting in a new Post-Britpop (post-Britpop) music type.

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