M. Leary

Happy-Go-Lucky (Leigh, 2008)

  “I’m the opposite of parched.” (Mike Leigh) Towards the beginning of Happy-Go-Lucky, Poppy and her friends are dancing in a club to Pulp’s “Common People.” This is the song in which Jarvis Cocker cynically croons about a rich girlfriend who wants to slum it for a while (“I said pretend you’ve got no money. […]