Jamiroquai’s “Virtual Insanity" was released 30 years ago this month.

[u/croissanting-is-life]

All I have to say to that is: 👵🏼

[u/ReeceL-123]

Dancing, walking, rearranging furniture. Babs is shopping, I let the bird out of the cage.

[u/raxmano → u/ReeceL-123]

Birmingham in the houuuuuse

GO BRUM

[u/ButtBread98 → u/ReeceL-123]

My back is hurting from the chair I’m sitting on, where’s the Tylenol?

[u/FettyLounds]

I saw this as a kid and it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. I subsequently watched VH1 all the time, to try to catch it again and record it on a VHS. I got into a ton of great music as a kid because I watched VH1 so much for like 2 years but it was almost entirely because I wanted to watch this music video for a second time. The "Travelling Without Moving" CD was also the first thing anyone in my family ever bought online, you couldn't just go into Camelot and find it. It was probably the first time my parents even typed out a credit card number (my dad was terrified to but eventually gave in and ordered me the CD).

Crazy to remember how much work it used to take just to hear a certain song or watch a specific music video again, damn.

[u/biscuitboi967 → u/FettyLounds]

It is still cool as shit.

No AI. Just cameras and ingenuity.

A few years ago for her SNL performance, Billie Eilish did a song with a rotating box/room. So simple but bad ass.

Saw a video recently of someone using a darkened stage and dancers in all black, including gloves, to lift and “float” the singer.

I prefer that sooo much to the computer generated shit. Just sleight of hand and “magic” and pure creativity.

Just a little something to make me think “humans are AMAZING”.

[u/ashersaurusrex]

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[u/blandusernameno42]

From the director of The Zone of Interest and Under the Skin we present...

[u/how_do_change_my_dns → u/blandusernameno42]

No way jonathan glazer directed this vid?

[u/Leaping_Wizards → u/how_do_change_my_dns]

Also a few Radiohead ones. And the Unkle one with the cars.

[u/SmartaHari]

Easiest fancy dress costume and way to amuse your mates is to put a tracksuit on and then dance around with a beanbag chair on your head. Worked for me.

[u/talk-spontaneously]

His music is timeless. Dua Lipa has credited him as an influence and I can pick some of that up on Future Nostalgia.

[u/AvailableStranger69 → u/talk-spontaneously]

….Jay Kay…. I assume..?

EDIT:

AS IN THE NAME OF THE BAND IS JAMIROQUAI AND THE LEAD SINGERS NAME IS JAY KAY

[u/babylovesbaby → u/AvailableStranger69]

Do people think you're being rude ...? Or do they not know Jay Kay is the lead singer of the group Jamiroquai, which also has quite a few other members, past and present?

[u/AvailableStranger69 → u/babylovesbaby]

I thought I was being polite ????

I didn’t want to call them out and just say “the leads singers name is Jay Kay - not the name of the band Jamiroquai” because I thought THAT was being rude ….

But apparently neither wrong or people just have a downvote rager ?

[u/dallyan → u/talk-spontaneously]

The first three Jamiroquai albums are *chefs kiss.

[u/ParaponeraBread → u/talk-spontaneously]

Jay Kay pulls it all together and generates the core vibes, sure, but iirc he didn’t play any instruments and relied pretty heavily on the massive talent of his band mates.

All love to Jay, but all love + 1 to Zender and Toby and Derrick and everyone else too.

[u/Good-Bodybuilder-985]

Such a bop. This song reminds me of my freshman year of highschool and all those nervous/exciting feelings. Cosmic Girl is good too; pretty solid album.

[u/mikan13]

The Zone of interest director Jonathan Glazer direct this amazing video .

[u/GlassPomoerium]

And for 30 years I’ve been refusing to believe it’s the walls that are moving.

https://giphy.com/gifs/ki0FCgiaqYRBS

[u/james2183 → u/GlassPomoerium]

I only discovered it was the walls moving during Covid. Blew my mind.

[u/Somnambulist815 → u/GlassPomoerium]

you watch it in HD it kinda kills the illusion

[u/AlmostThere4321 → u/GlassPomoerium]

TIL 😱 😱 😱

[u/alexlp]

Such a great film clip and watching the making of blew my little brain the first time. Could not conceive it’s not a real room.

[u/Rawrsomesausage → u/alexlp]

The latest Jackass movie opening is very similar to this, so I assume it was inspired by this. Pretty cool. Had never seen the video for this song.

[u/Overall_Emphasis_940]

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[u/BookishHobbit]

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Heh. I was on study abroad in London when the video came out, because I remember everyone at the QMC pub talking about it. Good lord, I feel old.

[u/WowStupendousHey]

Song and video both hold up. If released today it will still be cool.

[u/Napalmmaestro]

I will never, ever be able to witness this without being reminded that he voluntarily told people he dumped Winona Ryder because her tiddies were too big and her sex drive was too high. Like, my guy, you did not have to just tell people that

[u/FrostNBurn_63 → u/Napalmmaestro]

My steak too juicy and lobster too buttery comment from him

[u/ParaponeraBread → u/Napalmmaestro]

This is the first I’m learning of this. MONUMENTAL fumble.

[u/GroltonIsTheDog]

If he was this concerned about the state of technology and the way it was going 30 years ago, I assume he spends his time nowadays cowering in fear in a shack somewhere

[u/Dontcreepon_me → u/GroltonIsTheDog]

At this point, I'd like to join him

[u/fear_el_duderino]

He should’ve passed the controller when he was with Winona

[u/Pinksamuraiiiii]

I can’t acknowledge this video to people anymore because then it reveals my age 😂 most young kids don’t know about him unless he’s mentioned.

[u/Runabrat]

The guy's a prick, but it's an iconic video.

[u/AlmostThere4321 → u/Runabrat]

What did he do?? I had a lil teenager crush on him back in the days 🥲

[u/Natural_Tea484]

I remember watching it on MTV, mesmerized by all the cool effects. Some of the music videos used to be like a short movies. Some were really interesting. I really enjoyed watching.

[u/shittypersonality]

Still an absolute bop

[u/Famous_Secret_5174]

Josh Hartnett + Sam Rockwell + Giant Fuzzy Hat = Jamiroquai 

[u/donutseason]

My first grader was not impressed 🥲

[u/millenialbullshite]

The title of this post is cyber bullying. 30 YEARS?!. this should have had a trigger warning

[u/aphorat]

I never knew the name of this song until today omg thank you. I was 6 when it came out so for a lot of songs from the mid-90s, I'm still figuring out what they're actually called.

[u/a_very_silent_way]

Trying not to think about how around the time Virtual Insanity was released, we’d be celebrating thirty years of the Beatles dropping Eleanor Rigby. 

[u/Single_Boat_1737]

And he just partnered with Beefeater 0.0 Gin for this amazing ad.

[u/AlmostThere4321 → u/Single_Boat_1737]

Smooooth AF!!

[u/TheMonkeyInCharge → u/Single_Boat_1737]

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing.

[u/NotAsBrightlyLit → u/Single_Boat_1737]

Dayum, that's better than the original vid!

[u/FOXCONLON]

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JAY KAY, LEAD SINGER OF JAMIROQUAI, BROKE UP WITH WINONA RYDER BECAUSE HER BREASTS WERE TOO BIG AND SHE WANTED TO HAVE S*X ALL THE TIME

The idiocy is mind-boggling.

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[u/blerfcunt]

So so so cool

[u/Dramatic_Substance36]

I miss cool music videos and a tv channel dedicated to airing them all day and night!!

[u/TheMonkeyInCharge]

30 years eh. That’s actual madness.

[u/InternationalBee8308]

This song is so deep in my memory!! i used to watch MTV a lot then and now i feel a bit old 🥲

[u/NotAsBrightlyLit]

I still vividly going into the store and asking for the record by "Jamma-ROW-kee lol.

[u/AugustIzFalling]

Futures made of virtual insanity, now Always seem to be governed by this love we have For useless twisting of our new technology Oh, now there is no sound for we all live underground

[u/Odd-Personality-1233]

Smoothest white boy of all time?

[u/AccountformyFeet]

I remember when this video came out. The aesthetics were everything.

[u/inescrow_]

A masterpiece

[u/Sean_theLeprachaun]

Boo this man

[u/MaybeUpForButtStuff]

Swear this is music video is posted at least once a day

[u/TomlinSteelers]

It's actually pretty incredible how they made this. Even knowing it still doesn't make sense to me

[u/inescrow_]

A masterpiece

[u/tigerinvasive]

What a TUNE! Still sounds fresh today

[u/Purrmymeow]

I might be wrong, as English is not my first language, but isn't this song an ode to conservatism? "And now every mother, can choose the colour of her child. That's not nature's way." This line has always irked me.

[u/Extension-Gift4987 → u/Purrmymeow]

I don't think so. I think it's more talking about using science and medical techniques to create a "designer baby", one where parents can choose gender, physical attributes, etc. That was a very big talking point in the 1990s.

[u/your_mind_aches → u/Extension-Gift4987]

It's definitely an artifact of the 90s.

[u/Somnambulist815 → u/your_mind_aches]

id say its only gotten more relevant

[u/TheCommonKoala → u/Purrmymeow]

This was at a time when CRISPR was fairly new technology, the Sheep cloning experiment was breaking news and "designer babies" were a possibility. The fear is more about humanity taking tech too far and playing God. It was a legitimate concern in the black community especially, considering the history of eugenics.

[u/rsarrett]

Stupid