Saturday, October 5

Nigel Farage Advertises “Brexit Playlist” That Includes The Song “Out of Touch”

Nigel Farage Advertises "Brexit Playlist" That Includes The Song "Out of Touch"
Nigel Farage Advertises “Brexit Playlist” That Includes The Song “Out of Touch”

Nigel Farage, the honorary president of Reform UK and a former leader of Ukip, offered what seems to be a remedy to the exhausting nature of a general election campaign: listen to a strange Spotify playlist titled “Nigel Farage’s Brexit Club Classics” while endorsing his political party.

In a video shot atop a bus, Farage declared, “It’s Saturday morning, don’t lay about in bed, come out campaigning to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Club Classics!” Conservative Party deputy chairman and Reform candidate Lee Anderson could be seen standing next to him.

He was in Ashfield campaigning with Anderson, as he confirmed in a follow-up tweet, and the video shows him listening to Strike’s “U Sure Do” while driving.

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The playlist, which has a duration of little more than six hours, begins with SNAP!’s “Rhythm Is A Dancer” and continues with Darude’s “Sandstorm,” a well-known and popular meme song.

At the time of writing, it has received more than 2,300 likes from users, including ScottTaylor98. “A complete mix of dance classics that even Mr. Brexit himself couldn’t resist,” is how it is characterized.

It appears that the guy himself has now given it his blessing.

The words “you’re out of touch / I’m out of time” are sung back at the former City of London trader, who has frequently demonstrated against the “system,” therefore you might want to skip over Uniting Nations’ “Out of Touch” instead.

And in response to Farage’s Saturday Spotify playlist promotion, reactions have ranged from praise (some saying the track choice is truly “brilliant”) to mockery (others likening him to Steve Coogan’s embarrassing radio host avatar Alan Partridge):

The musical trio D:Ream forbade Sir Keir Starmer of Labour from using Tony Blair’s 1997 election campaign theme, “Things Can Only Get Better,” at the party’s rallies this year, coinciding with the discussions around music.

It made a comeback last week when Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was trying to announce the election and was nearly drowned out by the song being blasted on speakers by “Stop Brexit” protester Steve Bray, in addition to being drowned out literally (what with the idea of standing outside No 10 without an umbrella).

But the couple acknowledged to LBC that their initial reaction was to just say “not again” after realizing it had gone viral following Sunak’s remarks.

According to Alan Mackenzie, one of the band members, “there’s no way—our music and politics, never again.”

Source:
https://www.indy100.com/politics/nigel-farage-brexit-playlist-reform