Over the weekend, I realized what SFA's "Juxtapozed With U" is about. Maybe I've merely realized the obvious (two years later) but I'd never read anything explaining the song's meaning beyond vague notions of class struggle or resentment of the rich and powerful. First off, in post-Pulp Britain (and to a far lesser extent, post-Pulp Britpop) there is no need to write about either class struggles or the pressures of fame. Jarvis covered these subjects perfectly, and there isn't anything left to be said (musically) about these issues for another five to ten years. That's why a) bands have turned to writing simple love songs, a la Coldplay; b) bands with a political eye have turned toward more global issues, a la Coldplay. And don't feed me a post-9/11 "everyone is paranoid and concerned about world issues argument", Britain stopped becoming introverted a long long time before that. The record company mega-mergers of 1997-1999 saw to that.

To sum up : Jarvis is a god and nobody writes about class struggle anymore.

Furthermore, I wouldn't want to hear a Super Furries song about class struggle or any other complex political issue, inasmuch as it's best for the world that SFA's lyrics remain vague, fun, and about magic scissors and poisonous cockroaches. However, they are certainly entitled to write about firsthand personal experiences, as is any writer in any artistic genre. Thus, their opinion on their band's move from Creation to Sony is welcomed. The first lines of the song "It's easy when you know how // To get along without Biff! Bang! Pow!" didn't make sense to me until I read David Cavanaugh's "The Creation Records Story" -- Biff! Bang! Pow! was the name of Alan McGee's band in the early days of Creation. So the story goes, as Creation goes down, the wierd, wacky, Welsh and proudly indie SFA sign with a major label (i.e. the "juxtapozition" (sic) in the song's title), and everybody gets along because the band is smart enough to "tolerate all those people that you hate". Sure, acting this way is a wee bit phony, but like the song says, it's easy when you know how.

As for the song, if the 70's/80's revivalists would make music like this ...

And if my interpretation is completely wrong, who cares? It was so much fun trying to figure it all out.