"Dream" is the fifth single from British

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Dizzee Rascal Dylan Kwabena Mills (born 18 September 1984), better known by his stage name Dizzee Rascal, is a British MC and rapper. A pioneer of grime music, his work has also incorporated elements of UK garage, bassline, British hip hop, and R&B. D ...

and the second from his second album ''

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''. The single became his fifth top forty hit and second consecutive top twenty hit in the

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peaking at number fourteen, his second highest charting single at the time. "Dream" became his longest running single to chart in the UK singles chart, spending eight weeks inside the top seventy-five. "Dream" is built around a prominent sample of

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's " Happy Talk" from the 1949

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musical '' South Pacific.''. The album version and first single version feature simply the sample hook and a bassline and are without drum beats or percussion, but the "single mix" and the video version of the song feature a drum beat, produced by Dizzee Rascal, as well.

Music video

The music video for "Dream" begins as some building blocks (with animals printed on them) rotate to reveal the name "

". A children's

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tune plays as the

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zooms in on a woman at a

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, who says "Hello boys and girls, shall we see what Dizzee Rascal's up to today? He's such a rascal," a parody based on

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and

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going to pull this off, man, without singing the dots." He then states that the track he's rapping on is "too sensible for im" a nod to this song's sample of a Captain Sensible song. Then he starts rapping the song. During the video, several incidents happen; two puppet men steal a TV, and the puppet

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appear in a police car, and beat the puppet thieves; another puppet spray paints a shop wall; an

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dances on a bench; Dizzee walks into a disco; Dizzee raps for a

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in a recording studio, with a

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. The video ends with Dizzee climbing back into his music box, and the lady says "Goodbye, Dizzee, Goodbye, Boys and Girls, Goodbye..." and the building block logo appears again, and the video ends.

Track listing

;CD 1 # "Dream" (album version) # "Is this Real?" ;CD 2 # "Dream" (single mix) # "Trapped" # "Imagine" ive at Austin, Texas 20/3/2004 ;Vinyl # "Dream" (single mix) # "Dream" (album version) # "Trapped" # "Trapped" (instrumental)

Charts

References

2004 songs 2004 singles Dizzee Rascal songs Songs written by Dizzee Rascal XL Recordings singles {{2000s-hiphop-single-stub