Editing Britpop (section)

==Terminology==
Artists of the genre have dismissed the "Britpop" term. [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] bandleader [[Noel Gallagher]] denied that the band were associated with the term: "We're not Britpop, we're universal rock. The media can take the Britpop and stick it as far up the back entry of the country houses as they can take it."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5T08PBRT7Fc "Noël Gallagher on other genres"]. YouTube, Retrieved 27 March 2020</ref> [[Blur (band)|Blur]] guitarist [[Graham Coxon]] stated in the 2009 documentary ''Blur – No Distance Left to Run'' that he "didn't like being called Britpop, or pop, or PopBrit, or however you want to put it."<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLT4PPAtNZ8&t=5355s "Blur – No Distance Left to Run" (2009 documentary)]. YouTube. Retrieved 27 March 2020</ref> Pulp frontman [[Jarvis Cocker]] also expressed his dislike for the term in an interview with [[Stephen Merchant]] on [[BBC Radio 4]]'s ''[[Chain Reaction (radio programme)|Chain Reaction]]'' in 2010, describing it as a "horrible, bitty, sharp sound."<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tq1vw "Stephen Merchant interviews Jarvis Cocker"]. BBC. Retrieved 27 March 2020</ref>

In 2020, with attention turning to "landfill indie" acts of the 2000s, Mark Beaumont of the ''[[NME]]'' argued that the term Britpop had been devalued, ignoring all the cultural aspects that had made the scene so important, with the term becoming a "catch-all" for "any band that played guitars in the 1990s."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-top-50-greatest-landfill-indie-songs-of-all-time/|title=The Top 50 Greatest Landfill Indie Songs of All Time|website=Vice.com|date=27 August 2020 |access-date=7 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/features/landfill-indie-snobbery-2741199|title=The term 'landfill indie' is nothing but musical snobbery|website=Nme.com|date=1 September 2020|access-date=7 January 2021}}</ref>