How Parklife skewered the Nineties

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How Parklife skewered the Nineties

If Damon Albarn was telling the truth, and Saturday’s Coachella performance was Blur’s “last gig”, it was a miserable swansong. A field of influencers (some of whom appeared to not know who Blur are) crowded into the most corporatised festival in the world, all to turn it into sponsored TikTok content. It’s exactly the sort of scene that Nineties Albarn would have written a scornful observational pop song about. While Blur may be doing better in