Real, Honest-to-God Insanity
The Guardian's given over space to Jamiroquai's Jay Kay so he can vent his disjointed, rambling thoughts:
It would be nice to step back in time a bit. Walk out of the door, see somebody, smile and say, 'Good morning, how are you?' We've totally lost that in this country, that sense of politeness.He ends strong, though, pointing out that he's better than Pol Pot. How fucked is your self esteem if you have to go all apples and oranges? Even his Wikipedia entry is "disputed" for having anything nice to say about him at all. Being the Silverchair of "electronica" can't be that bad, can it?If you're buying a second-hand car, get the AA to check it out.
I've been wearing hats since I was around 17. My first one was an upturned bag that I got from Oxfam. I just took a shine to it.
(Also, did he mean to say you should have AAA check a used car? Or is that how people in Britain refer to AAA instead of, say, BAA?)
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The best part about it is that I was able to use my imagination and add the words "Can you spare a few dollars?" to the end of Jay Kay's blather.
Get him and Bobby Brown. Shove them off on a raft. And lets see what happens!
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Yes, the Automobile Assn. is the British version of AAA.
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Ok, still, though. Funny to think of having "Rex from Oneonta" tell a car to apologize.
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When I see AA, I think Alcoholics Anonymous. I guess that's how my daddy raised me.
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Unless Silverchair has three kick-ass, genre-bending records then Jamiroquai is no Silverchair. Seriously, The first three records all kill. There a 30 more Virtual Insanity-quality tracks out there from this band. Don't hate.
The guy may be out there, but out there is where the funk lives.
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Ok, maybe "Silverchair" was too harsh. I mean, T. Rex was completely insane and he rocked.
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ok
this shit is hilarious
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enjoy
bye
xo
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If I recall correctly, Silverchair only put out two kick-ass, genre-bending records. Their third album, while TOTALLY kick-ass, was not particularly genre-bending. As such, Silverchair is no Jamiroquai.
Seriously though, I'm with Macky on this one... I don't own any of their discs, but I've found most of the Jamiroquai tracks I've heard pretty entertaining: the guy can sing, has some decent pop songwriting chops. Although this rambling column is a poor showing - it's like he's biting Larry King's USA TODAY schtick. And you DON'T want to be biting Larry King.
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Jay can sing and dance his ass off. I like his style but is seems like all his songs sound the same with different words.
I still think he's fine as hell, though
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They use AA in New Zealand as well. Their maps saved my ass down there. I can't stand Jamiroquai.
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He's more like the Carrot Top of electronica.
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His wikipedia entry made me laugh a lot. He created the "buffalo man" logo. ha.
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Umm, okay, I'm going to go out on a limb here and disagree. His comments don't strike me as very insane at all. Maybe a tad eccentric, but really, I know at least a half dozen people who say crazier things in the course of completely everyday conversation. I mean, stuff like "I never think I've been a playboy, but then again, I think proper playboys are a bit tacky. Nothing's good enough for them. I don't mind staying in a five-star hotel, but I'm just as happy sleeping in a tent." That's not insanity at all!
Also note that this is an interview; looks like "Ben Mitchell" just decided to place random bits in seperate paragraphs instead of posting a more traditional transcript (was he too lazy? or maybe it just admittedly works better this way?), it's probably not like he was just randomly saying these things out of nowhere.
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You people are mean.
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Look, I loathe Jay Kay and just about everything he could possibly stand for; shit, advert-friendly funk-lite, the sort of twat-hats juggling idiots at mud-filled festivals are so fond of, and driving obnoxiously fast in expensive sports cars.
But slagging off him for this interview is a bit unfair, because the 'This Much I Know' column has been running (in the Observer, not the Guardian; pedantic, sorry) that format since it began. It's meant to be a collection of disconnected thoughts, which is actually quite a neat idea for a spot interview. Although it's very rare that the interviewee doesn't end up looking like a bit of an arrogant fool (which in this case was pretty inevitable anyway, so no harm done).
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"Also, did he mean to say you should have AAA check a used car? Or is that how people in Britain refer to AAA instead of, say, BAA?"
Oh, come on, how likely was it that an English man who lives in Britain being interviewed in a British newspaper meant to refer to a strictly American organisation? Even if you didn't know what the AA was, it's ridiculous to think he could have meant the AAA. Jay Kaye offers plenty of food for snarking - you don't have to make stuff up.
Oh, and what Ste said, above.
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Jamiroquai was great when it was about "the funk" - when JK used real musicians and had the best rhythm section around (Stuart Zender!). Now its about souless club music and his Ferraris.
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Yeah, Jamiroquai's first two albums were great--in that Brand New Heavies mode. They're extremely dated now, and his last few records make me want to vomit, but as a part of the neo-British-soul/dance scene of that time, those first two are killer, if not just for the inclusion of the didgeridoo.
He's fallen a looooooooonnnnnng way down, I agree.
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that shit is NOT hilarious
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The only reason people remember Jamiroquai exists is because of that awesome dance scene in Napoleon Dynamite.
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