It’s a shame, I like a lot of Suede songs, but Brett Anderson really is the biggest tosser to have come from Britpop (yep, he was as much a part of it as anyone, all the retro British influences are there in his music). He undermines his points by revealing himself in quite negative ways - him calling Oasis ‘singing plumbers’ reveals more about him and his condescending class prejudices than it does about his wayward views on Britpop. His views are a hell of a lot more problematic than the hysterical views on Britpop.

I don't recall suede becoming the biggest band in the world and having a multitude of number one songs, so maybe he should shut the fuck up.

Love Suede, Brett is just trying to get some attention.

Perhaps young people being happy and optimistic, and the fact that Noel had a Union Jack guitar makes poor Brett think the movement was "nationalistic". To me, there's nothing wrong with pride if it's positive. Seems like a class thing from Brett if not just sour grapes.

You might be right. I'm sure there was as much, if not more, sexism in the 90s, but it feels like actual hatred of women has increased in this decade, along with other far-Right obsessions. Some of the things you see in YouTube comments sections now are appalling. 

I'm generalising, obviously, but as far as I understand that period of recent history--from around 1993 to 1997ish--the prevailing mood in Britain was optimistic. Compare that to how we're all feeling now, and factor in social media, that great breeding ground for division and resentment and paranoia, and I find it hard to believe that people then were stewing in hatred as much as they are now. 

Let's not pretend there wasn't a certain distasteful masculinity in a time when Lad's Mags were all top-sellers, but I don't really see what this has got to do with bands like Blur or Pulp. Feels like a blatant dig at Oasis, from an artist who's band wouldn't be nearly as big as they were without the Gallagher's cultural impact.

Oasis anthems were about embracing the confusing yet exciting times of youth and adolesence. It wasn't targeting towards a guy audience primarily at all - many fans, mostly young, still to this day gravitate to the sound of 90s Oasis. That euphoric sense of hope and confidence, never was written generalizing anyone, and the only criticism in those songs was towards the upper class. The anthems championed the working class, which isn't just men, but women as well. Oasis is and has always been for everyone. He sounds more like he's bitter Oasis was more successful than Suede.

The difference between then and now is, at the time the media absolutely LOVED all that 'lad culture' and revelled in it, big time; now it's 'reviled', 'repulsive' etc. cause that's the line they have to take. Both women and men were fans, hence the birth of the 'ladette' and everything was fine, dandy and awesome.

The Beautiful Ones intro has an awesome guitar riff played by then prodigious 19 years old Richard Oakes who had the hard job to replace Bernard Butler. Oakes joined the band with only 17 years old, he beat more than five hundreds candidates to be the new Suede guitarist, his first album with the band Coming Up became the best selling Suede album and over the years he co-wrote many Suede songs.