In-der-Blog-sein

Different Day on being Britpop:

[M]usicians have responded to Britpop's argument about national identity to posit a 'Britishness' which is less about reasserting a disappearing tradition than about looking to the future (in Heideggerian terms, more about Becoming British than about Being British - Heidegger, 1978). I am thinking here of Cornershop's Punjabi version of Norwegian Wood, The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony (with its loop of a fragment of a version of a Rolling Stones song), The Rootsman's dub version of the shipping forecast and the Big Beat genre of dance music.

I'm partial to sampling, mash-ups, and the bass riff from Chic's Good Times from here till the end of time, but how are these British songs indications that their British performers are becoming even more so? Especially as most of the music sampled is American (Big Beat), or reaching to be so (Stones).  ¶ 7:30 PM