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Issy & Poppy Investigate: Cosmic Girls ft. Jamiroquai
September 19, 2025

🐾 Issy & Poppy Investigate: Cosmic Girls ft. Jamiroquai 🎶

Here we go...

Meet the Staff & Enforce the Code

🎙️ Narrator (cosmic echo voice):
In a universe where powdered hypocrisy clings to ministerial lapels and biscuits open portals to truth, two greyhounds patrol the surreal. They are Issy & Poppy - levitating arbiters of scandal, monocled enforcers of integrity. And today, they’re not chasing ghosts. They’re conducting a staff review… to a soundtrack.

🎶 Cue Jamiroquai qui’s Cosmic Girl
A howl to the stars. A bark at corruption. A bassline built from biscuit crumbs and spectral sighs.
“She levitates through lies / monocle sharp as knives / she’s my cosmic girl / truth in canine disguise…”

The track plays on loop in the Bureau’s biscuit chamber, where Joey the Budgie pirouettes on the filing cabinet and Jasper insists he co-wrote the bridge with a haunted synthesiser that only responds to sarcasm.

🐶 Issy - Chief Levitation Officer
Issy hovered above the biscuit tin, nose twitching at a particularly suspicious hobnob. Rule One, she intoned, All biscuits are sacred. Her levitation rose and fell perfectly with the chorus.

Poppy watched from the floor. She drifts through scandal like a butterfly in the ring - delicate, but with a sting.

🐕 Poppy — Director of Monocled Forensics
Poppy adjusted her monocle and scanned the room. Monocles must be calibrated daily, she muttered, polishing hers with sarcasm and shredded PPE contracts.
🎶 Jamiroquai’s lyrics echoed:
“She sees through spin / with a monocled grin…”

🐦 Joey the Budgie — Echo Chamber Analyst
Joey squawked along to the beat, chirping I’ve had enough of experts in perfect rhythm. His official minutes remained blank, yet were still approved by acclamation.
The monocle twitched. A peer resigned. The bass dropped.

👻 Ghost of Toffee — Spectral Auditor
Toffee materialised beside a haunted expense claim. No furniture shall be claimed without moral justification, he barked, then moonwalked into a filing cabinet labelled Morality (Drafts).

🐇 Jasper — Minister for Cosmic Levelling Up
Jasper burst in wearing a cape of shredded Brexit leaflets and declared war on logic. Universal Biscuit Income! he shouted, producing ghost coins from thin air.
He attempted to fund the scheme with Brexit bond wrappers, before beatboxing the chorus.
Poppy sighed. Rule Seven: Jasper is not to be trusted with policy.

🐈 Chelsea the Tabby — Director of Silent Judgement
Chelsea blinked once. The room fell silent. 🎶 Jamiroquai’s bridge played softly:
“She purrs through scandal / curled on truth…”
Everyone nodded. Chelsea had spoken.

🐾 Me — Narrator, Biscuit Wrangler, Portal Technician
I observed. I documented. I wrangled biscuits and opened portals. I do not levitate, but I do enforce. Dispatches must be surreal, satirical, and biscuit-approved, I reminded the team.
Joey squawked. Jasper tap-danced. Chelsea blinked. The suspicious hobnob remained under investigation. The monocle twitched.

🎙️ Narrator (closing echo):
And so the staff of the Bureau of Biscuit Integrity return to their duties - levitating, monocling, haunting, and chirping through the absurd. The Code is sacred. The biscuits are armed. And the truth… remixed for levitation, pressed on vinyl, and distributed exclusively through biscuit portals.

🐾 I told you before, it’s political satire. All the characters are fictional - except the ones that aren’t.

Album cover Issy & Poppy Cosmic Girls

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3 comments on “Issy & Poppy Investigate: Cosmic Girls ft. Jamiroquai”

  1. Great to meet the team but surely the cosmic greyhound detectives deserve their own section - their dispatches run the risk of getting lost with food recipes?

    1. Hello John. You're right, and as soon as I can fathom out how to add a new section to the menu I'll do so. Just at the moment I'm limited to my mobile phone and my fat fingers.
      Cheers

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