Nan You're a Window Shopper

Infobox Song
Name = Nan You're a Window Shopper


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Artist = Lily Allen,Simply Red
Albums = Alright, Still,Homes
Published =
track_no = 12
Recorded =
Genre = Ska
Length = 2:58
Writer = ,Mick Hucknall
Label = East West
Producer = Stewart Levine
prev = "Alfie"
prev_no = 11
next = "Smile" (version revisited)
next_no = 13

"Nan You’re A Window Shopper" is a song by young British singer Lily Allen. It is a parody of "Window Shopper" by American rap artist 50 Cent. It was featured as the B side to the UK 7” vinyl release of LDN, the Australian LDN single and the UK version. LDN was Allen's second hit single.It was originally a single for Simply Red from the 2003 album Home and written by Mick Hucknall.

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The song is to the same tune as "Window Shopper". It mocks the introduction. In the original 50 Cent version, he raps, "The top feels so much better than the bottom, so much better!" But in Allen’s version, she mimics him with this version: "The bottom feels so much better than the top, so much better!" It's a remixed version of Sunrise and it's also a faster version about Hucknall's nan spending so much time window shopping in Manchester in the late 90s after Tony Blair first came to power with New Labour and it is about innercity shopping in the late 90s and Hucknall accuses her of being cocky and trying to rip -off good traders for cheap goods at expensive prices.

Differences between the two songs

"Nan You’re A Window Shopper" is a tale of presumably Lily’s grandmother. She accuses her nan of being cheap. She states lines such as "you only buy the paper just to cut out the coupons", “you’ve done your Christmas shopping and we‘re only in April and "Nan you‘re a window shopper, taking a look but you never buy. Nan you‘re a window shopper, you won‘t pick it up if it‘s over a fiver." It is confirmed that the nan in this song is a cheap person, who will go as far as is humanly possible to avoid paying full price, and often shops in places like Poundland and the 99p Store.

This is a contrast from the 50 Cent version. In this version, he talks about how expensive everything he owns is, and how he can afford to go around looking fly in expensive cars and designer clothes, when Lily’s version is about a cheapskate bargain hunter.