follow me on instagram :) / davidhartley94 Virtual Insanity is perhaps Jamiroquai's best known song, but the story behind it and the insight into it's origin is more interesting than it seems.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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?
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..
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
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 😊
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 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.
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
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 was literally just thinking about this video the other day I could hear the melody in my head, but I couldn’t remember any of the words so I couldn’t figure out how to find it. What a trip that this popped up in my feed.
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 first hating jamiroquai and this video (the first video i saw of him), mostly because it sounded different to anything i'd ever listened to (rock music). but once i manage to pay attention to the video and the song.. i could not fell anything else but awe and love
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.
6:13 - Also in the video around the 1:17 mark the chair on the right attached to the wall shifts a bit from making contact with the floor I assume; I always wondered about this but knowing how the effect was achieved it's so obvious.
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.
I already was digging Jamiroquai (starting with Return of the Space Cowboy) when this song came out. Jonathan Glazer's directing is the icing on the cake. 👍🏽👍🏽
weirder than you thought oh oh as a music artist and AI music artist now aswell his personal thoughts / the future and how he turns his mind into song is one the reason i love him he knew how to make a catchy song you don't think about same with Heya - Outkast if you some how don't know go listen to the song again and read the lyrics and your see what you was vibing too was deep and emotional as hell lol
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!
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.
