Deep Blue Something — "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
A couple with nothing left in common grasps for one shared thing and lands on the Audrey Hepburn movie — "we both kinda liked it." The kicker: Todd Pipes actually wrote it about a different Hepburn film entirely. Earnest, hook-driven, and the only thing the world remembers Deep Blue Something for.
The conceit is deceptively small: a relationship down to its last thread, salvaged — maybe — by the one film both people kind of enjoyed. Deep Blue Something's Todd Pipes wrote it, and the title is a bait-and-switch he owned up to: the lyrics were inspired by Roman Holiday, another Audrey Hepburn picture, but Pipes thought "Breakfast at Tiffany's" simply made a better song title. The track first appeared on the band's 1993 album "11th Song", then was re-recorded for the album "Home" and released as a single in July 1995 by Interscope and Rainmaker.
It climbed for months, reaching number five on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1996 and number one on the UK Singles Chart, with top-ten placings across Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, and Sweden. The promo grind wrote its own punchline — because the song had "breakfast" in the title, radio stations kept booking the band for breakfast shows. "We'd be up 'til 3 am," Pipes told Q magazine, "and they'd wonder why we were pissed off playing at 6 am."
The follow-up singles went nowhere, and Deep Blue Something settled into the one-hit-wonder file. The song aged better than that filing suggests: a perfectly specific little portrait of two people who almost made it, hanging their whole future on a movie neither of them loved.
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