Pulp - Babies

What this video is

Released on 2 October 1992 via the independent Gift Records label, 'Babies' appeared at a moment when Pulp were still pre-breakthrough, two years before their commercial emergence with His 'n' Hers (1994). The song's voyeuristic suburban narrative — a boy hiding in a wardrobe to spy on his friend's older sister — exemplifies Pulp's signature blend of working-class Northern English specificity, dry wit, and social…

Why it matters

A foundational early document of Britpop's indie-pop strand, 'Babies' represents Pulp's first mature pop song — Cocker himself described it as 'the first time we'd written a proper pop song.' The video's self-aware structure and narrative wit codified an aesthetic vocabulary for literate,…

The director

Pedro Romhanyi is a British music video and television director whose career spans from the early 1990s through the 2020s. He became closely associated with the Britpop era through an extensive body of work with Pulp and Suede, among others. His later career…