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With the bleakness of another weekend coming to a conclusion, paired with the average weather, the only thing making a last minute grocery run seem worth it are the nostalgic bangers coming out of the supermarket sound system.
Weaving between some Dido, Justified-era Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado, the light early-2000s playlist comes as a surprising fix for the post-weekend dysphoria.
All concerns and anxieties swirling around the possibility of yet another weekend wasted, as well as the burnt-in memories of several dietary slips and perhaps one too many nightcaps last night, are, for a small moment in time suspended by the dulcet tones of Kylie Minogue on her ARIA-winning single ‘Spinning Around’ from her seventh studio album ‘Light Year’.
The fear of leaving the supermarket without all seven of the clearly marked grocery items on the torn piece of Commonwealth Bank-branded envelope is also soothed, as is the extra frustration of knowing that you’ve forgotten a green bag and will have to buy another.
As the skeleton Sunday night staff work furiously to serve the growing snake of customers building behind the two operational checkouts, there appears to be no huffing and puffing about an elongated stay under the fluro lights, as the line begins to subtly dance along, Full Monty-style, to ‘Rock DJ’ by Robbie Williams.
