La vida es un drama y nosotros somos los actores, al menos así nos lo insinúa repetidamente Jarvis Cocker en algunas de las canciones más icónicas de la legendaria banda Pulp. Pocos compositores como él para plasmar los pormenores de la cotidianeidad con intelecto e ironía de por medio, algunas veces subido de tono y otras con observaciones ácidas que agudizan su crítica social. Nunca ha tenido miedo de abordar el deseo carnal, la traición y el conflicto con humor, a través de un lente desmitificador que encrudece el mensaje con sarcasmo punzante, dejándonos una colección de frases impactantes que nos abren un ángulo más perspicaz y descarado de las cosas.
1.- You are hardcore, you make me hard, you name the drama and I’ll play the part. It seems I saw you in some teenage wet dream. I like your get up if you know what I mean.
This is Hardcore/ This is Hardcore LP/ 1998
2.- If fashion is your trade, then when you’re naked I guess you must be unemployed, yeah.
Underwear/ Different Class LP/ 1995
3.- You see, you should take me seriously, very seriously indeed, ‘cause I’ve been sleeping with your wife for the past sixteen weeks, smoking your cigarettes, drinking yout brandy, messing up the bed that you chose together.
I Spy/ Different Class LP/ 1995
4.- Your lover just traded you in for the very same model but a much more recent year. It will not stop. It will get worse from day to day ‘til you admit that you’re a fuck-up like the rest of us.
Bob Lind/ We Love Life LP/ 2001
5.- Have you ever heard other people fucking, and really enjoying it? It’s a maervelous sound, not like in the movies, but when it’s real, it’s such a happy, exciting sound.
Shefield, Sex City/ Intro compilation/ 1993
6.- It’s like a later Tom and Jerry when the two of them could talk; like the Stones since the eighties; like the last days of Southfork; like Planet of the Apes on TV; the second side of ‘Til the Band Comes In; like an own-brand box of cornflakes. He’s going to let you down my friend.
Bad Cover Version/ We Love Life LP/ 2001
7.- And as I stand and cross the room I feel as if my whole life has been leading to this one moment. And as I touch your shoulder tonight, this room has become the centre of the entire universe.
F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E/ Different Class LP/ 1995