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Everyone came off as either deluded or liars

Revisado: 09-16-19

This is very much an oral history of Cool Britannia, so don’t expect too much critical analysis since the people interviewed clearly continue to have their own reasons for glossing over the more cynical aspects of the period. I’m not sure how to judge the audiobook, based on how the narrators interpreted the words of different interviewees, which ended up making the people sound very self-important for creating what sounded like a bunch of basic sketch comedy bits sold to a society crying out for something, anything, to latch on to and drag the country out of the doldrums. The whole ‘we were just reflecting what society wanted’ is such a worn trope by now that it’s hard not to roll my eyes every time it was trotted out, even when trying to keep everything in context, David Baddiel came off completely deluded, Perhaps the interviewees weren’t so earnest and were more self-aware, but you wouldn’t know it from this audiobook. The snippets of interview recordings didn’t really help.

By the end, you’d think everyone interviewed were ‘the good guys’, and everything they did was "just a bit of fun" that also happened to change the world. Spare me. It did make me dislike absolutely everyone in the book, so perhaps that’s a bit of public service. Perhaps that was the intention of the author, to have everyone be absolute pillocks on the record and have that be the rebuke and criticism of the era, but I'm not sure that was worth listening to for 18 hours.

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