Britpop was a 1990s British music and cultural movement. Musically, Britpop produced bright, catchy alternative rock, drawing significant influences from British guitar pop of the 1960s and 1970s, with lyrics that emphasised British national identity and offered commentary on British culture and society. Britpop was considered a musical reaction to the darker lyrical themes and soundscapes of the American-led grunge music of the time, and Britain's own shoegaze music scene. The movement brought British alternative rock into the mainstream and formed the larger British popular cultural movement Cool Britannia, which evoked the Swinging Sixties.