“Uniform” is a slashing rock monster about homogenised global youth culture that will surely be a moshpit favourite. An unexpected influence was Kate Bush’s “Sat in Your Lap.” Okereke loved the “madness” evoked by the competing voices.
– A Weekend in the City’s liner notes

“Uniform” deals with the struggle of young kids (primarily teenagers) to find an identity in a culture that is highly commercialized and manufactured, but still tells children that they are unique and special, that they cannot be replaced by anyone else. Through this example neoliberal capitalism is criticized and the way it encapsulates rebellion through commerce.

Kele wrote this song after reading Henri Lefebvre’s Critique of Everyday Life and Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. It represents his deep displeasure about youth culture and the irony that runs with it, he also refers to his own place within it as well.