Virtual Insanity

今天在收音機上聽到 Jamiroquai 的歌，也許有人覺得 Jamiroquai 非常九十年代，但他當年那首巧妙變化的Virtual Insanity MV，至今仍無人出其右(好吧就算有也是我近年比較少看電視所以沒看到吧…)。記得當年MTV台是24小時放映MV的時代，可比現在一堆黑色糖果亂七八八上台廢話好看多了… 畢竟我也勉強算是MTV Generation的啊，也有可能是我老了和小朋友有代溝了吧。唉，美好的時代已然過去…嘆…

扯遠了，當年當我第一次在MTV台看到這MV時，真是目瞪口呆到不行。想想1996年的時候那些有的沒的一些視覺特效還不是那麼平易近人的時候，這支MV感覺上除了精心的動線設計和 Jamiroquai 特異有趣的舞步，完美配合的天衣無縫，些許Disco些許Jazz些許Funk的曲調，還有那半預言式的歌詞。早期台上的 Jamiroquai 永遠戴頂誇張的大帽子，過動兒般跳上跳下，後來可能富有起來加上年紀大跳不動，MV裡多了很多花瓶配角和豪華跑車…就說美好時代已經過去了咩…好笑的是這支MV裡的沙發上似乎也罩了層塑膠布，不知他的理由是什麼?

這支MV曾得到1997MTV錄影帶大獎的「最佳音樂影片」，「最佳特效」，「最佳影視技術」，「最佳突破音樂影片」多項大獎。

不知為何這支MV在Youtube上都不准轉貼，有心想看MV版的人請移駕至Youtube吧( High Quality is here )。其實 Jamiroquai 的現場功力也是一個了不起，我在這裡轉貼他1997MTV錄影帶大獎上的表演，MTV居然在現場裝了雙軌捲軸地面，也算有誠意了。

這個現場版的最後一段他加了兩句：

Now this virtual insanity that we're living in,
I gonna think it's gonna change it...



Jamiroquai－Virtual Insanity

Oh yeah, what we're living in, let me tell ya
It is a wonder man can eat at all
When things are big that should be small
Who can tell what magic spells we’ll be doing for us
And I'm giving all my love to this world
Only to be told
I can't see, I can’t breathe
No more will we be
And nothing's going to change the way we live
'Cause we can always take but never give
And now that things are changing for the worse
See, whoa, it's a crazy world we're living in
And I just can't see that half of us immersed in sin
Is all we have to give these

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

And I'm thinking what a mess we're in
Hard to know where to begin
If I could slip the sickly ties that earthly man has made
And now every mother can choose the colour of her child
That's not nature's way
Well that's what they said yesterday
There's nothing left to do but pray
I think it's time to find a new religion
Whoa, It's so insane
To synthesize another strain
There's something in these
Futures that we have to be told

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

Now there is no sound if we all live underground
And now it's virtual insanity
Forget your virtual reality
Oh, there's nothing so bad
As a man-made man, oh yeah, I know yeah
Ooh

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

Now this life that we live in
It's so wrong
Shout out the window
Do you know that
There is nothing worse than a man-made man
Still there's nothing worse than a foolish man, hey

Virtual insanity is what we're living in
Yeah, it is alright