“I don’t listen to music like you do. I listen to the same song, over and over.” On 11th August 2022, The Streets released the song Brexit At Tiffany’s (ft. Jazz Morley), with an accompanying music video. It eventually was collected in a 3-track EP of the same title, alongside ‘3 Minutes To Midnight' and ‘Test Of Time’. To this date, I think of this song/video combination as one of Mike Skinner’s best pieces of work, and an experience that is deeply alongside me now.
Upon release, I’d casually listened to the song once or twice over the weekend in my headphones and enjoyed it, but it wasn’t until the Monday after (15th August), when I sat down in my small Bow flat after work, that it truly transformed in and with my mind.
In that unplanned and unexpected evening session, through all of those back-to-back subsequent repeat playings of the 2 minutes and 40 seconds video, Brexit At Tiffany’s stimulated, compounded and then exploded so many seemingly out-of-time experiences through my mind and body. The overload of thoughts caught more and more of my emotions, and, from the exponential threading of those ingredients into, what felt like, a tornadic waterspout, my ‘I’ became of parallels; part in a body, part outside of one, taken off and flying.
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