I wanted to disagree that VIRTUAL INSANITY does not sound, and video does not look like the 90s. It's the mid-90s, and if you listened to the young artists of that time like him, that is exactly how new music sounds like in the 90s. It's an era where the 20th century is about to end, and the 21st century is about to come. There were a lot of really cool music and videos from that time if you dig into it deeply. So nope, it isn't ahead of It's time.... it's the music of its time. As an older millennial, I've witnessed how music got stuck and sounded like the music from 20 to 30 years ago. And there are a lot of blues and funk in this music, something that's common from the 50s to 70s. It is the music of its time. It's just hard to tell music apart these days - nothing novel is coming out. I was 10 when this came out and loved it as I still do. Jamiroquai was on my playlist in my college days. I love him!
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this song is nearly 30 yrs old! 😢 It doesn't seem like the 90's were that long ago... great times.
I’ve always loved the irony of the video being achieved with a simple illusion, rather than CGI or high tech trickery, given the track name. Virtual Insanity, practical effects.
My first job was actually working as PA for a CGI department. Everyone in the department was very pro practical effects. The great thing about working in animation was that nothing mattered expect how good it looked. It doesn't matter if you've spent 30k on modeling and animating a prop or spending 15 dollars on painting a prop and tossing it in the air. If it look good, it works. With that said, while Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was praised for its CG, a lot/most of the far away backgrounds were actually paintings. Like, someone hand painted it on a giant canvas. It looked so good, most people don't realize it wasn't CG. Again, nothing mattered except how good it looked.
@@sleepingkirby Matte painting is well known & used on both CGI & non CGI efx. Any digital efx studio would have digital matte painters working all the time esp. in smaller studios where they often also have to be texture artists at the same time. So yes FF used matte paintings as background, its not all high res 3d models - that wold be too taxing for the render farms & budget$, yet theyre all digitally painted using digital painting/photo editor + 3d softwares done usually on a Cintiq. So still CGI.
Loved the first album, it was such an unusual sound they had going. Liked them all along, just wish they made more music. Unbelievable how little music bands make now, compared to those in the 60s and 70s. They must get so bored.
This band was life changing for my friends and I. Most of us musicians. The insane basslines, the crazy funk variations, JayKay's spaced out kyrics and incredible jazzy delivery. My friend and I would go to Borders Books and Music and listen to all of the "This is Acid Jazz" compilations because of Jamiroquai. Found a lot of incredible stuff because of them. Still one of my favorites today.
@@gregoryallen0001 please actually read up on that, they are not the same person, the qanon shaman is called Jake Angeli. Jay Kay made that very clear and called the fuckers trying to storm the capitol freaks
JK’s dancing and movement during the video really helps sell it and turns it from a video with a really cool effect to a masterpiece. He’s so smooth and effortless with how he moves in this.
Jamiroquai's, hands down, the best ACID JAZZ act ever. Virtual Insanity is like the Bohemian Rhapsody...Stairway to Heaven type of masterpiece of this genre.
I remember when this song came out. There was no one that sounded like them. My band’s guitarist and I were trying to wrap our minds around what it even compared to and could only come up with Stevie Wonder. I think the fact that this song feels timeless is that it really didn’t fit into the era it was written, so it’s hard to listen to it now and really hear it as fitting into the mid 90s.
Man I absolutely adore Virtual Insanity (and Jamiroquai in general for that matter). By far one of my favorite music videos of all time. Instantly transports me back to my childhood in the 90s. They'd often play it during VH1s early morning video block while my sister and I got ready for school.
It's a shopping centre underground and they are found all over Japan. The largest is the Whity Umeda area in the Umeda area of Ōsaka city. It extends from Dōjima to the area near Nuchayamachi in Umeda in the north and westwards to Nishi-Umeda. Some places in Namba 4.5km south extend down two floors and it's almost as big as Whity Umeda. These areas are cool in the oppressive heat of summer and warm in cooler months.
Thank you! Incredibly inappropriate for the Creator to have not given proper credit in his drop down, there is more than just 1 song he's using in this video, B-
That final point says it all for an artist today. No matter what technological explosion happens on art, you can always have more rhythm than a machine.
It is interesting to learn that the walls shaking was unintended. I thought that was done on purpose, sort of like a nod to the mental walls Pink builds for himself in Pink Floyds The Wall. I thought the shaking was meant to imply the natural world trying to break through the walls built for us in the Virtual Insanity world.
Back in around 1994 I was seeing a girl who was mad about Jay and she had approached him in the street and asked him about what he was listening to on his walkman and he just gave her the tape. I remember listening to that tape and it was a side long loop (I guess he just looped stuff so he could work on lyrics)... Have not heard it since then but I think it was something more disco-ish which might have appeared on an album post Space Cowboy...
Rage rage rage ruhruhrage rage rage ruhruhruhruhruhruh.... RAAAAAAAAAAGE. We had Channel 2's post programming until morning cartoon time. none of that fancy cable tv crap here. still the same intro to this day.
Traveling Without Moving is one of my top 5 albums... I bought the CD the week it came out. 100% agree it has a timeless sound.. one of the things in music I love to find. Nothing better than hearing a song that you just can't name the decade..
Totally dig your narration style. Very calm, you have a nice voice to listen to. And after all, which is a rarity, not constatnly zooming in and out of your face like 200% of all the other youtubers do it nowadays.
Thank you for saying that, I remember the pop up video for this said everything he said and more , so much went into making this song and video! I learned so much from pop up videos
Jurassic Park started it all in 1992; by 1996 cgi was ok enough with movies like Terminator 2, Jumanji, The Mask, Independence Day. But more expensive than a moving floor. So they made a great job with the walls and stayed on budget.
@@aisthesik Jurassic park has less cgi running time than this video clip. Mostly tricking the eye. This is probably true for all that you mention. These are not full cgi scenes. I think making the videoclip is near impossible in 96.
Yeah, I have, Jurassic Park, Fifth Element, Titanic, Mars Attacks, The Crow, Twister, Dragonheart, Independance Day, Multiplicity, The Frighteners, Mission Impossible. Need I go on?
One of my favorite songs. I remember when the song won video of the year at MTV music awards. I was very happy especially because no one I knew really knew about the song until then.
I was at the MTV awards and saw them. My friend, who worked with MTV for a bit, got my friends and I to be part of the audience by the stage. Just lots of cheering and dancing. Fun times 😊
This song predicted a future where we would be more in Virtual Reality instead of where we started when we were born. We would fall into endless loop of being dependent on technology and out and back in again. at most, it's truly a Virtual Insanity that we have grown this dependent on technology. But to be fair, we're doing out best and haven't completely fallen. The moment the power goes out, we go outside. The moment our internet goes off, we go outside. or take a nap or sleep cuz we've been lacking it. It just somehow worked. Regardless the song was a prediction in and of itself and either way, it's alright now.
I read it as people not caring about real problems rather is fixated on technology and the world outside is getting worse, i mean i agree, we care about the iphone 16 more than landlords raising rent astronomically
I'm so glad this was covered, I was amazed as a kid when I first saw the video on Mtv. I was walking around listening to this song thinking how the lyrics are very true even for today. Great video!
this video summary was amazing! the song it's about 30yo but having huge back information and history about Virtual Insanity right now really huge for me. Thanks!
I can remember the first time I saw the Virtual Insanity Video. I waked into a local HiFi store where their wall of TVs on display was hooked up to the new Australian Pay TV system, Austar. Virtual Insanity just started showing as I waked in and I was mesmerized, transfixed by what I was watching.
Great video. So true about it's timeless factor too - and it's a fairly incredible feat to have a song ~30 years old that could pretty much pass as being released now (both the video and music)
I’ve heard that the inspiration didn’t come from Sendai but Sapporo instead because Sendai doesn’t have a large underground shopping mall that connects three subway stations like in Sapporo.
One of those quintessential videos of the MTV era. I remember when it was played all the time. I didn’t appreciate these guys back then as much as I should’ve. They are excellent
It’s such a stand alone piece of music. It’s kind of an if you weren’t there at the time and experienced in the time it won’t hit the same. This was the best part of music videos in the 90’s. No speciAL FX. Just creative ingenuity and passion for the music.
Definitely one of the best videos ever made. Its so different from everything. When I see it now I expect the MTV program proceed afterwards. Took me a while to get my head around, how they did it. Also fantastic song. Been in my playlist since then (when I was 13-14)
I was about your age in 1996. CGI was in its infancy back then. It definitely would have been fake and would have made this a forgettable video. I’m very glad they did what they did too. Cool story. Keep up the good work!
Wow, you did such a great job, giving voice to many reflections we fans could do throughout the years, and adding some niche info. Very well crafted! 👏👏 👏
Also i have always wondered about the specific meaing behind the pics of animals (and blood) besides the obvious one.(the contrast between the living world and the tech one)
I remember being a young teen when that song came out originally, it was fantastic then, and still great today. The video though, I feel stands the test of time in terms of artistic music videos that have aged pretty well.
The line "now there is no sound, for we all live underground" was the one lyric in this song i could never fully parse the meaning of, so learning that it's actually a reference to the thing that was the initial inspiration for the song is really cool.
It is kind of funny that they originally considered the ridiculous engineering of a moving floor when the obvious answer is a static camera on moving walls to achieve the same effect.
As a poor university student in the early 1990s in North Texas they were huge with us. When they played Carsvan of Dreams in Fort Worth they drew a huge crowd, and I got lucky and was allowed in by a sympathetic door man who let me in! Great show, great band!
@@clvrswine awe I'm crushed pig, you've struck at the very core of my identity. It's refreshing to know there are still pos people in this world trolling around.
There's a video of Jonathan Glazer speaking about the video and at one point he mentions giving Jay feedback on his dancing and Jay said, "Listen, I've been doing this in the mirror since I was six years old - I know what I'm doing." That still makes me giggle to this day 😂 Also can't believe the lack of mention of Glazer's career as time went on. The guy is responsible for the legit masterpieces Sexy Beast and Under The Skin - the latter is VERY worth watching, if you've not seen it. Fucking brilliant.
I listen to Jamiroquai almost every day. Of course I knew about them in the past but now I'm down with all their albums. They were so ahead of their time, all of their albums are great classics to me. I can listen to them all straight. Two of my favorites songs are Carla and Tallulah. I liked the song Carla even more realizing it's about a baby girl. I think the song is so sweet.
I remember seeing Jamiroquai in Lakota in Bristol about 30 years ago! Also remembered seeing Jay on "You Bet", identifying super cars/sports cars just from their rear lights or rear indicator lights or something? Very specialist and he nailed it of course Now I've tried to look it up I can't find it so maybe I was dreaming! Or it was a different show or celebrity
I’m amazed at my own perceptions looking back. When they released their third album I remember me and my friends had very strong opinions that it was “too commercial” and it would be all downhill from there - not “real” acid jazz etc. Fast forward to now and I honestly had to look it up: the fact this song was in his third album threw me. Reason being that I have played this tune at so many gigs through the 2000s, to me it sounds like classic Jamiroquai now. For me it kind of embodies the Jamiroquai sound now. But at the time, I recall so vividly - I thought “this isn’t real Jamiroquai”! Hilarious. I guess this song aged really well.
@@frida507 Here in Japan most cities like Sendai have large underground shopping malls and arcades. Tokyo Station has a very nice one with restaurants, bars and boutiques. Nagoya Station has one that is almost like a mini city. So most likely Jamirquia was speaking about one of these.
@@frida507 You're very welcome! By the way, As a volunteer, I drove emergency supplies up to Tohoku shortly after the 2011 quake. The destruction I saw haunts me till this day.
The instrumental makes me feel a nostalgia I’ve lost as a child. I’m a 94 baby and this songs instrumental just mashes everything I loves from the years up to TLC, Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees
All of the walls are suspended 1 cm above the floor, and are all held together as one piece. Take a water glass, turn it upside down and slide it across the table. Same principle. The crucial bit however: the camera is also moving along with the walls. Illusion complete.
Knowing Jamiroquai is a band almost 30 years later says a lot about not knowing everything and you learn everyday. Knowledge is power, never stop learning
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I wanted to disagree that VIRTUAL INSANITY does not sound, and video does not look like the 90s. It's the mid-90s, and if you listened to the young artists of that time like him, that is exactly how new music sounds like in the 90s. It's an era where the 20th century is about to end, and the 21st century is about to come. There were a lot of really cool music and videos from that time if you dig into it deeply. So nope, it isn't ahead of It's time.... it's the music of its time. As an older millennial, I've witnessed how music got stuck and sounded like the music from 20 to 30 years ago. And there are a lot of blues and funk in this music, something that's common from the 50s to 70s. It is the music of its time. It's just hard to tell music apart these days - nothing novel is coming out.
I was 10 when this came out and loved it as I still do. Jamiroquai was on my playlist in my college days. I love him!
The Alien computer boot up sound, with Frank Herbert's Dune, travelling without moving. Brilliant
Why were the people all under the city??
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that this song is nearly 30 yrs old! 😢 It doesn't seem like the 90's were that long ago... great times.
Yea, that hit me like a truck! Can't be 30 years! I'm pretty sure it was only a few months ago.
THE MILLENNIUM BUG STRIKES AGAIN. It always will be ten years since 1990.....unless you're born after 2000. Then your brain got the patch.
The best times
Truly the best 9️⃣0️⃣’s 🎵
@@darianstarfrog Maybe. But thou shalt not give in to Nostalgia, for she is a backstabbing mistress. BE WARNED STRANGER.
I’ve always loved the irony of the video being achieved with a simple illusion, rather than CGI or high tech trickery, given the track name. Virtual Insanity, practical effects.
My first job was actually working as PA for a CGI department. Everyone in the department was very pro practical effects. The great thing about working in animation was that nothing mattered expect how good it looked. It doesn't matter if you've spent 30k on modeling and animating a prop or spending 15 dollars on painting a prop and tossing it in the air. If it look good, it works.
With that said, while Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was praised for its CG, a lot/most of the far away backgrounds were actually paintings. Like, someone hand painted it on a giant canvas. It looked so good, most people don't realize it wasn't CG.
Again, nothing mattered except how good it looked.
@@sleepingkirby Matte painting is well known & used on both CGI & non CGI efx. Any digital efx studio would have digital matte painters working all the time esp. in smaller studios where they often also have to be texture artists at the same time. So yes FF used matte paintings as background, its not all high res 3d models - that wold be too taxing for the render farms & budget$, yet theyre all digitally painted using digital painting/photo editor + 3d softwares done usually on a Cintiq. So still CGI.
@@Kashkha7 These weren't digital matte paintings. They painted on actual physical canvas, photographed it, then put it in as the background.
Exactly why it holds up.
Yup@@Parker--
Not only is the illusion amazing, but Jay's movements are vital to the overall performance. He is *selling* the trick.
Hello?
@@michaellavery4899 Hello Michael.
he is selling trick. i am selling my wife
@@OS-yg9fr human trafficking peak crime
@@OS-yg9fri selled my wife for internet connection
Wait, I'm still on "band's didgeridoo player".
Same
I had to pick him up once from Stafford Railway Station. Because I had a Volvo estate.
The first 3 albums were heavy with didgeridoo
@@JERSEYTARPITand it was great 😅
Loved the first album, it was such an unusual sound they had going. Liked them all along, just wish they made more music. Unbelievable how little music bands make now, compared to those in the 60s and 70s. They must get so bored.
This band was life changing for my friends and I. Most of us musicians. The insane basslines, the crazy funk variations, JayKay's spaced out kyrics and incredible jazzy delivery. My friend and I would go to Borders Books and Music and listen to all of the "This is Acid Jazz" compilations because of Jamiroquai. Found a lot of incredible stuff because of them. Still one of my favorites today.
so tragic that guy grew up to be the QANON SHAMAN
Had a journey of my own with similar vibes. Still part of my core rotation.
@@gregoryallen0001 please actually read up on that, they are not the same person, the qanon shaman is called Jake Angeli. Jay Kay made that very clear and called the fuckers trying to storm the capitol freaks
The most impressive thing to me about the music video is, even when you figure out how the illusion was created, it's still mind blowing.
A bit like sitting in your car and the one next to you starts moving and you panic, putting your foot on the brake! Spilt second illusion
I thought the floor was moving, but someone said every thing was on wheels
JK’s dancing and movement during the video really helps sell it and turns it from a video with a really cool effect to a masterpiece. He’s so smooth and effortless with how he moves in this.
Jamiroquai's, hands down, the best ACID JAZZ act ever.
Virtual Insanity is like the Bohemian Rhapsody...Stairway to Heaven type of masterpiece of this genre.
Agreed, one of my favorite pop-ish songs of all time
Hardly a compliment though is it - Acid Jazz...lol
@@fearofjazz7369 what do you mean?
@@fearofjazz7369Just because a genre was popularized in the 80s doesn't mean it's played out
@@fearofjazz7369 what's wrong with acid jazz...? lol back.
and what do you FEAR jazz...??
oh wait, never mind....I don't give a f**k.
one thing is true, this song aged well and it DOES NOT look like it's from the 90s.
Why? To me it doesn't look like it's from the 80's either...
@@songfulmusicofsongs It's not suppose to, its timeless.
When my friend showed me this I thought it was was from like 20 years ago like 2003 or 2004
I remember when this song came out. There was no one that sounded like them. My band’s guitarist and I were trying to wrap our minds around what it even compared to and could only come up with Stevie Wonder. I think the fact that this song feels timeless is that it really didn’t fit into the era it was written, so it’s hard to listen to it now and really hear it as fitting into the mid 90s.
yeah i thought its atleast 2008 - 2012
Man I absolutely adore Virtual Insanity (and Jamiroquai in general for that matter). By far one of my favorite music videos of all time. Instantly transports me back to my childhood in the 90s. They'd often play it during VH1s early morning video block while my sister and I got ready for school.
It's a shopping centre underground and they are found all over Japan. The largest is the Whity Umeda area in the Umeda area of Ōsaka city. It extends from Dōjima to the area near Nuchayamachi in Umeda in the north and westwards to Nishi-Umeda.
Some places in Namba 4.5km south extend down two floors and it's almost as big as Whity Umeda.
These areas are cool in the oppressive heat of summer and warm in cooler months.
. ah btfl- was unaware^
We were there last year and it took us a few days to figure it out! So funny!
Wild to gloss over what may be the most interesting point to many people in the video.
Insane to think Jonathan Glazer started doing music videos and later won an Oscar for The Zone Of Interest
Yes, I'm surprised that this wasn't mentioned.
Perhaps the fact that many Oscar winning directors get their start in music videos and commercials meant it wasn’t so interesting?@@louisrios5546
You're not at all wrong when you say he "later won an oscar" but it sounds really strange considering he won it just the other week haha
He has an insane filmography tbh
@@moorederodeo indeed
I wish I still had my big fuzzy hat and didgeridoo from the 90's
Bring back the big fuzzy hat
Still got my didge...😁
Oof, i dont
@@JohnWilliams-vy2gw well you’re no fun.
We all do 😅
Jay Kay's mum, Karen Kay was a brilliant jazz singer and also a brilliant and funny mimic back in the late 70's and throughout the 80's
The "moving floor" effect was startling enough when viewing the video. Finding out it is a cunning illusion really adds to visual confusion. 😎🤯
"Jamiroquai - Automaton" - For those wondering what the last song is @7:34
I thought it was a cover of the supremes’ “you keep me hanging on” but I guess they just used the same chords
Thank you! Incredibly inappropriate for the Creator to have not given proper credit in his drop down, there is more than just 1 song he's using in this video, B-
U are a god, I was looking for it.
That final point says it all for an artist today. No matter what technological explosion happens on art, you can always have more rhythm than a machine.
especially if you are a dancer!
You can't fake the funk.
It is interesting to learn that the walls shaking was unintended. I thought that was done on purpose, sort of like a nod to the mental walls Pink builds for himself in Pink Floyds The Wall. I thought the shaking was meant to imply the natural world trying to break through the walls built for us in the Virtual Insanity world.
Back in around 1994 I was seeing a girl who was mad about Jay and she had approached him in the street and asked him about what he was listening to on his walkman and he just gave her the tape. I remember listening to that tape and it was a side long loop (I guess he just looped stuff so he could work on lyrics)... Have not heard it since then but I think it was something more disco-ish which might have appeared on an album post Space Cowboy...
also you forgot that the song is just a GODDAMN BANGER
As a teenager in the 90's, this video was ALWAYS on MTV. So we didn't need UA-cam.
Rage rage rage ruhruhrage rage rage ruhruhruhruhruhruh.... RAAAAAAAAAAGE.
We had Channel 2's post programming until morning cartoon time. none of that fancy cable tv crap here.
still the same intro to this day.
@@noinfo9130 Are you okay? Seriously.
in the '90s
*
I’m sooo glad this song came out when I finally got a color tv-and a cable box- in my room as a teen…
Traveling Without Moving is one of my top 5 albums... I bought the CD the week it came out. 100% agree it has a timeless sound.. one of the things in music I love to find. Nothing better than hearing a song that you just can't name the decade..
Remember seeing this on MTV as a teenager when they first showed it .. I was in love
Iconic music and video. Not only for the technique used, but specially due to his performance and moves in the video, so original.
Totally dig your narration style. Very calm, you have a nice voice to listen to. And after all, which is a rarity, not constatnly zooming in and out of your face like 200% of all the other youtubers do it nowadays.
Saw them in concert recently in Dubai.....theyre still rocking it!
I like this format, its like VH1 Pop-Up Video and a mini essay rolled into one!!
and Pop-Up Video was *AWESOME!!!* ..and also needed a comeback!
Thank you for saying that, I remember the pop up video for this said everything he said and more , so much went into making this song and video! I learned so much from pop up videos
Love Jamiroquai. I was 16 years old when Virtual Insanity came out and the film clip is just as good now as it was back then. So ahead of it's time.
So... what were those Japanese people actually doing underground? Maybe I missed it, but I don't think you told us.
They have underground malls and walkways to help not congest the streets above
Just standing around.
@@bretthunter6253 That's actually a pretty cool idea!
they were just going, going, going deeper underground.😊
@@bretthunter6253 they have the same thing in Montreal.
I have been a Jamiroquai listener since I seen the Space Cowboy video in 1990's. I love every album. thanks for playing some Automation!!
4:10 "just consider these chords"
Me, who can't read music: Oh yeah of course
"They could have used cgi."
Have you seen 1996 visual effects?
HAVE YOU SEEN JURASSIC PARK????
THAT FUCKER'S FROM 1993!
AND WAS MADE AND PRODUCED IN 1992!!!!!!!
GUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I came here to say this. Doing a Google image search for “1996 CGI” makes me shudder.
Jurassic Park started it all in 1992; by 1996 cgi was ok enough with movies like Terminator 2, Jumanji, The Mask, Independence Day. But more expensive than a moving floor. So they made a great job with the walls and stayed on budget.
@@aisthesik Jurassic park has less cgi running time than this video clip. Mostly tricking the eye. This is probably true for all that you mention. These are not full cgi scenes. I think making the videoclip is near impossible in 96.
Yeah, I have, Jurassic Park, Fifth Element, Titanic, Mars Attacks, The Crow, Twister, Dragonheart, Independance Day, Multiplicity, The Frighteners, Mission Impossible. Need I go on?
0:30 i-i..i needet a breather after hearing this. sheesh i'm getting old.
Yep. Lol I’ll be 33 next month.. times passing
Just saw Jay Kay’s Instagram yesterday and they r back in the studio , but with dad is in the shed with his mates vibe 😂
Such a masterpiece! Funky Pop with a prophetic message...Genius at work!!! Got to get that LP
came here to find out how much of this i learned in vh1's pop up video. learned a lot, great vid
Well, the director just won an Oscar for best Int'l Film.
Omgggg pop up video!!!!
Just sang it
Loved that showwww!!
Now days it would be
SO LAME
Dancing, Walking, rearranging furniture babs is shopping, I let the bird of the cage
One of my favorite songs. I remember when the song won video of the year at MTV music awards. I was very happy especially because no one I knew really knew about the song until then.
I was at the MTV awards and saw them. My friend, who worked with MTV for a bit, got my friends and I to be part of the audience by the stage. Just lots of cheering and dancing. Fun times 😊
Ha, 30 years later and a 20 year career in VFX and I never knew the set was moving..LMAO! Brilliant.
This is a win for practical effects then!
I always assumed the floor was moving, because that seemed like the obvious answer. It's even cooler to know the walls themselves were moving.
@@infamousNfamous same. A testament to the performance and the innovative effects.
My all time favourite band and only now do I find out how that video is made.
That first line up (not that they aren't great now) is SO unspeakably tight, talented and in the groove at ALL times.
You have a very lucid yet laid back style of presenting, thanks David...subbed.
This song predicted a future where we would be more in Virtual Reality instead of where we started when we were born. We would fall into endless loop of being dependent on technology and out and back in again. at most, it's truly a Virtual Insanity that we have grown this dependent on technology. But to be fair, we're doing out best and haven't completely fallen. The moment the power goes out, we go outside. The moment our internet goes off, we go outside. or take a nap or sleep cuz we've been lacking it. It just somehow worked. Regardless the song was a prediction in and of itself and either way, it's alright now.
I read it as people not caring about real problems rather is fixated on technology and the world outside is getting worse, i mean i agree, we care about the iphone 16 more than landlords raising rent astronomically
Gosh I love this song, the music video and JK himself ♡♡♡
I still play the song alot :]! And still in awe of the musoc video
Great video man!! So cool
30 years old. Thanks now I feel old
It's ok, another 30 and you'll forget you're old!
The album was amazing you know. I love this song so much!
7:55 Jay Kay is still alive. He’s 54.
And he's recording a new album 😂
@@thehoov6672really!?
Man I really love this song so much. This video was extremely well done, thank you for making it! I foresee your channel exploding very soon!😊
仙台に地下街はありません。札幌が正しいです。
何年か前の札幌公演で 街に出たけど誰も外を歩いていなかった
一体みんなどこにいったのか 近くの老婦人に尋ねたんだ
そしたら案内するからって どんどん階段を下りていって
なんと地下に街があった！
その時の印象をホテルの部屋でまとめてみたのが
皆が知ってるこの曲なんだ
[1999年東京ドーム公演「Virtual Insanity」曲前の発言より]
I'm so glad this was covered, I was amazed as a kid when I first saw the video on Mtv. I was walking around listening to this song thinking how the lyrics are very true even for today. Great video!
Funny they forgot to record their recording. 0:09 Not sure how one can do such a trick. If it's a recording usually that means it's been recorded.
They recorded a rough demo, it’s basically a reference track not a final master.
this video summary was amazing! the song it's about 30yo but having huge back information and history about Virtual Insanity right now really huge for me. Thanks!
I absolutely love Jamiroquai and this song & video clip are definitely in the top 3 for me along with Canned Heat and You Give Me Something.
I can remember the first time I saw the Virtual Insanity Video. I waked into a local HiFi store where their wall of TVs on display was hooked up to the new Australian Pay TV system, Austar. Virtual Insanity just started showing as I waked in and I was mesmerized, transfixed by what I was watching.
Jamiroquai’s ‘Space Cowboy’ song was also one of the inspirations for the show Cowboy Bebop
Great video. So true about it's timeless factor too - and it's a fairly incredible feat to have a song ~30 years old that could pretty much pass as being released now (both the video and music)
I’ve heard that the inspiration didn’t come from Sendai but Sapporo instead because Sendai doesn’t have a large underground shopping mall that connects three subway stations like in Sapporo.
One of those quintessential videos of the MTV era. I remember when it was played all the time. I didn’t appreciate these guys back then as much as I should’ve. They are excellent
what a rabbit hole, mind blown! thank you sir
It’s such a stand alone piece of music. It’s kind of an if you weren’t there at the time and experienced in the time it won’t hit the same.
This was the best part of music videos in the 90’s. No speciAL FX. Just creative ingenuity and passion for the music.
And by moving the walls instead of the floor Jay is indeed traveling without moving.
Great video! This is one of my favorite songs and music videos of all time.
Tell the guy who said that None of Jamiroquai's songs were fit for Singles, that I said he didn't know what the Fuq he was talkin about. 😏
Dude is probably dead
As a professional musician and classical composer I can tell you that these works by him really very complicated. And amazing!
I was so god damn lucky to hear this album as a snotty 13 year old
Snotty boy with lipstick on
Definitely one of the best videos ever made. Its so different from everything. When I see it now I expect the MTV program proceed afterwards. Took me a while to get my head around, how they did it. Also fantastic song. Been in my playlist since then (when I was 13-14)
I was about your age in 1996. CGI was in its infancy back then. It definitely would have been fake and would have made this a forgettable video. I’m very glad they did what they did too. Cool story. Keep up the good work!
Also would have cost an astronomical amount to do.
Wow, you did such a great job, giving voice to many reflections we fans could do throughout the years, and adding some niche info. Very well crafted! 👏👏 👏
Also i have always wondered about the specific meaing behind the pics of animals (and blood) besides the obvious one.(the contrast between the living world and the tech one)
I remember being a young teen when that song came out originally, it was fantastic then, and still great today. The video though, I feel stands the test of time in terms of artistic music videos that have aged pretty well.
2:50 just casually plays the lick that became Little L
I'm right here with you, my guy.
The line "now there is no sound, for we all live underground" was the one lyric in this song i could never fully parse the meaning of, so learning that it's actually a reference to the thing that was the initial inspiration for the song is really cool.
it's so creepy that the lyrics basically talks about modern day, its like the simpson of music
It is kind of funny that they originally considered the ridiculous engineering of a moving floor when the obvious answer is a static camera on moving walls to achieve the same effect.
As a poor university student in the early 1990s in North Texas they were huge with us. When they played Carsvan of Dreams in Fort Worth they drew a huge crowd, and I got lucky and was allowed in by a sympathetic door man who let me in! Great show, great band!
At the Caravan? Damn, I'm sorry I missed this! That's a real cool story and quite a memory.
You have poor taste. Then, and now. Yikes.
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Nothing is in such bad taste as trying to put people down in comments sections@@clvrswine
There's a video of Jonathan Glazer speaking about the video and at one point he mentions giving Jay feedback on his dancing and Jay said, "Listen, I've been doing this in the mirror since I was six years old - I know what I'm doing." That still makes me giggle to this day 😂
Also can't believe the lack of mention of Glazer's career as time went on. The guy is responsible for the legit masterpieces Sexy Beast and Under The Skin - the latter is VERY worth watching, if you've not seen it. Fucking brilliant.
i never knew Jonathan Glazer directed the music videoo❤❤❤❤
Still a big fave of mine!! Soooo far ahead of everyone else at that time (& still!) groundbreaking music & vid❤ thank you for this👍🏼😻
Wait it’s a band? I thought he was just a dude lol
WHAT
Same
Reversed Tame Impala
Me too
Felt the same way, when I learned that Sade is band
I listen to Jamiroquai almost every day. Of course I knew about them in the past but now I'm down with all their albums. They were so ahead of their time, all of their albums are great classics to me. I can listen to them all straight. Two of my favorites songs are Carla and Tallulah. I liked the song Carla even more realizing it's about a baby girl. I think the song is so sweet.
I grew up with this song
I remember seeing Jamiroquai in Lakota in Bristol about 30 years ago! Also remembered seeing Jay on "You Bet", identifying super cars/sports cars just from their rear lights or rear indicator lights or something? Very specialist and he nailed it of course
Now I've tried to look it up I can't find it so maybe I was dreaming! Or it was a different show or celebrity
Have you ever heard about SAMURAI, from Brazilian legend Djavan? I'm sure they were into it... check the harmony.
love your breakdowns, man. thanks for sharing your investigation!
One of my favorite songs of all time!!❤
I finished the video happier than I started. Thank you!
Finally someone spoke about this song. Thought i was the only one who knew this in today's age
I’m amazed at my own perceptions looking back. When they released their third album I remember me and my friends had very strong opinions that it was “too commercial” and it would be all downhill from there - not “real” acid jazz etc. Fast forward to now and I honestly had to look it up: the fact this song was in his third album threw me. Reason being that I have played this tune at so many gigs through the 2000s, to me it sounds like classic Jamiroquai now. For me it kind of embodies the Jamiroquai sound now. But at the time, I recall so vividly - I thought “this isn’t real Jamiroquai”! Hilarious. I guess this song aged really well.
I think about this song every other day as AI gets more and more advanced.
I was 21 when this song (and album) came out and it was everywhere! The clip wowed us all and it still amazes me today. Where have the years gone?
Well, Young Lion, I would call it "acid skiffle"
Vastly underrated Fast Show comment! Jeremy Kwee 😂
This makes me feel old. I really miss the 90s. Such different music and mentality. I want to go back
Shame the future of Sendai wasnt so rosey . If there was anyone underground when the earth quake and tsunami hit ... Virtual insanity indeed 😢
Sendai didn't suffer much from the 2011 quake. In fact, underground arcades here in Japan are built to withstand strong quakes.
@@Picasso_Picante92 What were they doing underground? This video never explained. Workplaces, parties subway...?
@@frida507 Here in Japan most cities like Sendai have large underground shopping malls and arcades. Tokyo Station has a very nice one with restaurants, bars and boutiques. Nagoya Station has one that is almost like a mini city. So most likely Jamirquia was speaking about one of these.
@@Picasso_Picante92 Thanks for explaining!
@@frida507 You're very welcome! By the way, As a volunteer, I drove emergency supplies up to Tohoku shortly after the 2011 quake. The destruction I saw haunts me till this day.
Popped up in my recommends. Solid content. Hoping you get a lot of subscribers.
Loved everything up to the 3rd album, after that they may as well have called it the jay Kay band
The instrumental makes me feel a nostalgia I’ve lost as a child. I’m a 94 baby and this songs instrumental just mashes everything I loves from the years up to TLC, Backstreet Boys, 98 Degrees
and I still do NOT get how the moving walls thing works exactly???
All of the walls are suspended 1 cm above the floor, and are all held together as one piece. Take a water glass, turn it upside down and slide it across the table. Same principle. The crucial bit however: the camera is also moving along with the walls. Illusion complete.
Knowing Jamiroquai is a band almost 30 years later says a lot about not knowing everything and you learn everyday. Knowledge is power, never stop learning
It's not a "pop" song, it's an Acid Jazz song!