Manic Street Preachers have claimed that “the upper echelons of society have tipped the cultural scales too heavily in their favour”, while vowing that things soon sway back towards working class music and art.The Manics were talking to NME about their upcoming 14th album ‘The Ultra Vivid Lament‘, when quizzed about a line from new song ‘Don’t Let The Night Divide Us’ which sees frontman James Dean Bradfield sing: ‘Don’t let those boys from Eton suggest that we are beaten’.The singer said that the Nicky Wire-penned lyric was written with “a bit more humorous abandon” than it might have been in their past, but was still loaded with intent and a promise of things to come from the working class.“It’s not just us saying, ‘Hey, you guys over.
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