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Excuses (song)

2021 song performed by Mentis featuring Kate Wild

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ116961102 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Excuses" is a song by British DJ MENTIS featuring vocals from British singer Kate Wild. It was released on 27 April 2021 by Sinister Sounds and Columbia Records. The song entered the UK Singles Chart at number 99 and charted at number 49. It also entered at number 35 and charted at number 18 on the UK Dance Chart.

The song received radio support on Capital Dance BBC Radio 1 and Kiss FM having been shazamed 160,000 and streamed over 50 million streams across all platforms.

DJ MENTIS is an artist alias of music producer and writer Andy Manning who is part of artist duo Nightlapse.

Music video

A music video for "Excuses" was released onto Mentis' YouTube channel on 23 July 2021 at a total length of two minutes and fifty-two seconds long.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Excuses (song)” as 2021 song performed by Mentis featuring Kate Wild. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Excuses, song and performed can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2021 song performed by Mentis featuring Kate Wild. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q116961102. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Excuses (song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.