21st Century Life

About 21st Century Life

"21st Century Life" is the 2nd single from Sam Sparro's eponymous debut album, released on 21 July 2008. The Song was featured on one episode of Britannia High and it is also the theme music to the BBC Three drama, Personal Affairs. The song made it to BBC Radio 1's C-List, but was later dropped. It was performed on the first live result show on reality television series So You Think You Can Dance Australia on 16 February 2009 The song is one of 50 tracks selected for the official NBA 2K17 soundtrack, which was curated by Grimes, Imagine Dragons and Noah Shebib.  more »

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2008

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When I was a little boy living in the last century
I thought about living in the future then it occurred to me
I turned around the future was now, the future was all around me
Nothing like I had imagined, it was totally confounding

21st century life, I got swept away
I got 21,000 things that I gotta do today
21st century life, well what can I say?
The new world's got me feeling so dirty
Think I need to get down and play

Well, now I turned on the TV just in time enough to hear
What the Pope said, the Pope said
And just a few tiny words later somebody wants the man dead
What about famine and disease, well they said it's too bad, oops
Because I'm never alone, it's not just a phone, it's a stereo

21st century life, I got swept away
I got 21,000 things that I gotta do today
21st century life, well what can I say?
The new world's got me feeling so dirty
Think I need to get down and play

Now I'm not a little boy, I'm in the 21st century
Well, you might think we've come a really long way
But there's still no equality

I watched the news on my computer screen
Talking about buying my weed out of a vending machine
You tell me I'm free but how can it be
When you're always watching me on the CCTV

21st century life, I got swept away
I got 21,000 things that I gotta do today
21st century life, well what can I say?
The new world's got me feeling so dirty
Think I need to get down and play

21, 21, 21
I'm talking about 21, 21

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Sam Sparro

Sam Sparro (born 8 November 1982) is an Australian singer-songwriter, music producer, and former child actor. His stage name was derived from a family nickname, which in turn was inspired by the Dagenham radio mascot Sammy Sparrow. He is signed to the British record label Island Records. more »

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