I i) am not good with lyrics, ii) have no claim to working class origins & iii) was 10 when it came out... BUT I decided CP was a Really Good Song in about '01/02. I heard it as a mix of ambivalence towards timeless themes bubbling into seething resentment at a specific instance. https://twitter.com/RhianEJones/status/1355494788871684097

So there's this BoBo fetishisation of an idealised gritty "real", which Jarvis sort of shrugs about. But the anthemic chorus is a kind of joyful finger to the rich aesthetes, who'll never truly access that "real". So it re-fetishises it (and we all sing along in the indie disco).

Anyway, that's my late-to-the-game reading of that particular song. Interesting thread with a circuitous but definite relevance to present day structures of cultural production, as noted here. (cc @DrDaveOBrien) https://twitter.com/zs_tc/status/1355489694126112768