Throwback Thursday

Jamiroquai ~ “Virtual Insanity” (1996)

There was a time when the future looked like concrete walls and a bucket hat.

Everything clean and strange. Jay Kay sliding across the floor like gravity was optional and physics didn’t apply. Walls shifting, couches drifting, random animals passing through. Inanimate objects bleeding. It felt absurdly futuristic then — now it feels like a warning.

This video? No CGI. No green screen. Just a locked-off camera, a set on wheels, and Jay Kay moving like nobody’s watching.
(We were watching. Just check the VMAs.)
The only post-edit? Scrubbing out some tape on the floor. That’s it. Pure choreography and clever design. Still hits.

And the song? Funky as hell. But underneath it, he’s talking about us — tech replacing touch, and the slow creep of digital life into everything.

We thought it was cool.
It was cool.
Still is.
But now it’s real.

Virtual insanity isn’t virtual anymore.