I feel I must say something here, because some of you guys are way off. There is nothing anti-chav about this song, its the opposite, its anti-establishment to a degree. The point is not that they are wearing the baseball caps (although it is to a degree, Doherty/Baret do like to promote englishness, so they arn't that impressed) it is that the type of civil protest that the song obviously documents "riots," "wombles," "coughing up blood" is ultimatly useless and in capitalist society the lower classes, whom Pete in particular is known for his afinity with, are powerless to escape their place on the scale. The Libertines love finding a romance in un-romantic things (thats where the morrissey influence is most obvious) and here they have tried to find a sort of freedom angle in the ending "were in a class of our own my love," which could mean as cheddaringo points out that you should try to ignore and transcend class, or alternitively could mean that by attempting to fight the class system as the songs characters are, they are above the futility of the class system and as such in a class of their own.
Don't sit on the internet insulting chavs please, its an econmically driven sub-culture with far more political value than emo, goth, or alcoholic student.
I feel I must say something here, because some of you guys are way off. There is nothing anti-chav about this song, its the opposite, its anti-establishment to a degree. The point is not that they are wearing the baseball caps (although it is to a degree, Doherty/Baret do like to promote englishness, so they arn't that impressed) it is that the type of civil protest that the song obviously documents "riots," "wombles," "coughing up blood" is ultimatly useless and in capitalist society the lower classes, whom Pete in particular is known for his afinity with, are powerless to escape their place on the scale. The Libertines love finding a romance in un-romantic things (thats where the morrissey influence is most obvious) and here they have tried to find a sort of freedom angle in the ending "were in a class of our own my love," which could mean as cheddaringo points out that you should try to ignore and transcend class, or alternitively could mean that by attempting to fight the class system as the songs characters are, they are above the futility of the class system and as such in a class of their own.
Don't sit on the internet insulting chavs please, its an econmically driven sub-culture with far more political value than emo, goth, or alcoholic student.
What's pete's political view?
What's pete's political view?