What is This!? Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity (FIRST REACTION)

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  @annemaclean-t2u · 3 months ago (edited)

  What you said about him predicting social media, Anthony, is so true. This song is basically a critique of an increasingly technology-driven society. The lyrics warn against human over-reliance on digital realities, genetic engineering, and the loss of natural human connection in a modern, automated world. This song was released in 1996 and it's so prophetic, because 30 years later this is what the world is like with AI, social media and everything else that is going on! I wonder what it will be like in another 30 years, the mind boggles and it's flippin' scary!!

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• CD

  @cdcaleo · 3 months ago (edited)

  Jamiroquai owned the 90's. They had several other big hits in the late 90's and you should give all of them a listen.

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• AJ

  @ajg7917 · 3 months ago

  Very popular video back in the day

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• DI

  @DivaInTheWoods · 2 months ago

  Jamiroquai has an incredible library of music! A deep dive is needed.

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• SU

  @supamaorifella · 1 month ago

  I honestly thought this was Jamiroquai reacting to Jamiroquai.

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• IN

  @Indigo_moon · 3 months ago (edited)

  He's talking about designer babies. Where people can choose their children's eye color, hair color, complexion etc. before their born. Genetically altered embryos. Or he could mean that people can choose the baby's race etc. through gentic screening.

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• AN

  @annemaclean-t2u · 3 months ago

  I've certainly heard of this band, Jamiroquai are an English acid jazz and funk band from London. Formed in 1992, they are fronted by vocalist Jay Kay, and were prominent in the London-based funk and acid jazz movement of the 1990s. So, this is 1990s music and this song was released in 1996, this video is amazing, very imaginative and very cleverly done. Love the vibe to this song, so good! Thanks for your reaction, Anthony. ❤😊

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• RE

  @redhead2376 · 3 months ago (edited)

  In the line "every mother can choose the color of her child, that's not nature's way' he was talking about genetically modifying the fetus that was just beginning to gain public attention in 1996

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• MI

  @mizuame7038 · 2 months ago

  日本の私が知っていて英語圏にいるあなたが知らないという違和感が凄まじいです！<br>単に私が年を取ったという事なのでしょう！この曲は日本でもCMで流れていて洋楽をあまり聞かない層にも浸透していました。何か特別な、英語分からずとも前身的な、とにかくエッジのきいた曲という印象を日本人に植え付けていました。<br>彼のファッション、ビジュアルもとても可愛らしくて人気がありました！

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• AN

  @annemaclean-t2u · 3 months ago (edited)

  Couldn&apos;t remember where the name Jamiroquai came from, so looked it up - <br>Jam: Refers to a musical jam session, Iroquois: A slightly altered spelling of the Iroquois Native American confederacy. Jay Kay was deeply inspired by the tribe&apos;s philosophy of living in harmony with nature. So there you go! 😊😊

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• IA

  @iamsquatty · 3 months ago

  This is like a song from a prophet. Just the things he says in it. It&apos;s crazy

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• SI

  @sidratgamer · 2 months ago

  You also have to watch &quot;The Making Of&quot; video too, to truly understand the sheer brilliance and how difficult it actually was to pull off.

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