Two teenagers walk a sunset street sharing one pair of earbuds from a cassette Walkman.

No. 19 · New jack swing

Rewind

A London summer in 2005, one Walkman and two earbuds.

A feel-good new jack swing love song: swung drums, slap bass, funk guitar, Rhodes and a call-and-response chorus made for singing back.

A London summer in 2005, a red double-decker, one Walkman and two earbuds, and a kitchen dance twenty years later.

“Can we rewind?Back to the summer you were mine”
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The story in 5 frames

From the film

  1. Teenagers in school uniform stream along a sunlit pavement as a red double-decker comes up the road.
    01 Last bell, last day.
  2. A boy dances on the pavement beside a laughing girl on a sunset street.
    02 Dancing down the street.
  3. Two teenagers sit on a low brick wall at sunset, sharing a pair of earbuds.
    03 One Walkman, two earbuds.
  4. Two teenagers sit side by side on the top deck of a red double-decker bus.
    04 On the top deck.
  5. A man and a woman dance hand in hand in a warm kitchen at dusk.
    05 Kitchen, twenty years on.