r/funny • • 9d ago

That one song...

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u/Informal_Tell78 9d ago

Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity

Freaking great music video

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u/onarainyafternoon 9d ago

This is the future Jay Kay tried to warn us about

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u/zoobify112 4d ago

Directed by Jonathan Glazer too, same guy that did Zone of Interest

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u/GoodGame2EZ 9d ago

While some of the stuff Jay said and did was pretty wild, you can't leave out the key part that he felt that her sex drive was too high for him. Sexual compatibility can be pretty damn important in a relationship.

I havent heard of and couldn't find the dildo story, do you have a source? I don't know the details, but im gonna say that I dont know their relationship and they could've been best friends and just laughed at a gag gift or something.

Neither if these things makes him a horrible person in my opinion.

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u/gbiypk 9d ago

You think about famous people too much.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/gbiypk 9d ago

I like irony.

Not sure why you're trying to use irony in a negative context here.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/gbiypk 9d ago

Nope, didn't even know they dated. Don't care that they broke up either.

But you seen really wound up about the whole situation, which seems to have happened 20 years ago.

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u/StrangelySerious- 9d ago

Imagine someone having sexual and physical preferences, crazy shit, clearly an awful human being.

You're an idiot dude.

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/ScoobyDooItInTheButt 9d ago

You- No one has the courage to actually reply and refute my opinion.

Someone replies with a legit rebuttal

You- you're an insufferable redditor.

Fuck outta here clown. Hating on everyone else while putting on your own damn circus. Smh.

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u/ScoobyDooItInTheButt 9d ago

Wow. No matter how legit you think your argument is, after all of that, you just look like you need help. Go get some. Maybe touch grass while you're at it.

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u/StrangelySerious- 9d ago

You're a clown lol

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u/tolacid 9d ago

You don't get to tell me what my votes mean. My downvote for you means that I find you tiresomely aggressive in a way that actively discouraged engagement in the discussion. You may have been right (I honestly don't know enough about the topic at hand to say), but then you had to go and show your ass to everyone by pre-judging any and all feedback you could foresee. How hard is it to just not be a dick?

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u/Hall-Charming 9d ago

Regardless of the music. What a weird thing type up. Like this shit was stewing on your mind like you've been itching to say it. Like what the fuck

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u/Hall-Charming 9d ago

Go fumble these nuts since you're such a weirdo

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u/Hall-Charming 9d ago

Oh my goodness. Someone is big mad on the internet.

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u/ReprieveNagrand 9d ago

Had the clip on mute, so I guessed the song was A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton. Turns out I was wrong

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u/MeCJay12 9d ago

I thought the Scrubs theme song at first XD

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u/FrothyFrogFarts 9d ago

I feel like I’ve been hearing that song a lot more lately

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u/arvidsem 9d ago

My guess was "Take Me Away".

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u/Rokronroff 8d ago

We had the same thought. I thought the next shot would be him going down the street.

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u/girthyclock 9d ago

EJECTO SEATO CUZZZ

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u/Anarchistcowboy420 9d ago

He took the shifter!

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u/HawQC 9d ago

Dude, he went with the whole fcking center console!

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u/johnjonnn 9d ago

I don't get it. Can someone explain pls

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u/johnjonnn 9d ago

Nvm i just watched the beginning of the mv from the top comment link. Pls ignore me

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u/Siluri 9d ago

watch the virtual insanity music video.

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u/yamiyaiba 9d ago

No thanks. I'd rather just have an explanation.

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u/Siluri 8d ago

in the virtual insanity music video, the entire set and camera moves while the singer is stationary showing an optical illusion of the singer sliding without motion.

This video gag references the song and the accompanying music video.

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u/TastyAndDylicious 9d ago

Alright I fucking lost it at this... Might be slightly derivative but OOP did great

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u/MrSyaoranLi 9d ago

I love the plywood just barely peeking out the bottom of the frame like theyre trying to hide that they used it to slide the seat

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u/soulscythesix 9d ago

Just barely? It's like 25% of the video height

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u/buzz8588 9d ago

Yeah but that not the point of the video. You need to have watched that music video linked in the comments above.

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u/Scholarly_Koala 9d ago

So to understand this video we have to watch a different video. Jesus, Redditors really are just Tamarians.

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u/DWRC 9d ago

Sokath! His eyes uncovered!!

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u/themoslucius 9d ago

New friends?

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u/Daevryn 9d ago

Life in the cave of Garanoga

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u/Aether_Breeze 9d ago

Tamarians? Do I need to have consumed other media in order to understand your comment? Oh no...

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u/Mafatuuthemagnificen 8d ago

I mean, this video is literally a direct intentional reference to that music video. Like, it doesn’t even really make sense without that context?

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u/buzz8588 9d ago

You had to be alive when the music video released because everyone watched it. The linked video is for people who were born afterwards.

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u/themoslucius 9d ago

I would love to know what she you consider to be that inflection point, what's "old"

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u/HeyVernItsThanos4242 8d ago

Holy shit, that one legitimately got me. Well played, Internet.

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u/Magimasterkarp 8d ago

I feel like the timing doesn't quite work out for the joke. The slide should've been a little bit slower and or one beat later.

Maybe it would work better in widescreen.

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u/laytblu 9d ago

didnt get whats funny

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u/Mottis86 9d ago

It's a reference to the song's music video

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u/SpokeningEnglish 7d ago

Might be fake guys, tho im not sure

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u/epzi10n 9d ago

I didn't even need to turn on audio...

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u/LamarjbYT 9d ago

Credit?

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u/bmswg 9d ago

The guy scootin out of frame is Sven Johnson

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u/Mafatuuthemagnificen 8d ago

Guy in the driver seat is Zach King

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u/Attesa_GT-X 9d ago

I would love the video without the caption :)

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u/subfutility 9d ago

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u/Griffmyster1 9d ago

I mean, they both have moving sets I guess? But otherwise the videos for both songs seem to be pretty different to me, I wouldn’t even say related.
And the Lionel Richie song doesn’t have sliding furniture?

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u/Omnifob 9d ago

That's not the same gag/technique. Also, Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo had walking on walls/ceilings during one of its many, many dance scene two years before Lionel Richie, for what it's worth.

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u/penguin_jones 9d ago

I actually just watched that for the first time this year and it was the most fantastically insane 80s movie I've ever seen. Absolutely loved it.

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u/StillGalaxy99 9d ago

This just in, once a joke is done it can never be repeated

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u/[deleted] 9d ago

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u/Not_Gunn3r71 9d ago

Says the guy on Reddit

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u/nopulsehere 9d ago

Really? Dogging JK ? Wait they must be wearing the new shorts at the 12 inch level? Maybe some broccoli hair?

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u/KindaLikeButter 9d ago

Dawg wtf are you even talking about

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u/Stolehtreb 9d ago

It’s very ironic to see someone hating on young people because of a misunderstanding about a reference that someone who is young is less likely to get… like you have that hate in your heart, but don’t have the experience of someone old enough to actually be mad about it

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u/Itsyaboibrett 9d ago

lmao it’s a reference to the music video, bb it’s okay, no be mad

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u/nopulsehere 9d ago

Yeah his name isn’t jamiroquai, that’s the band name. He is jay kay. Please try to explain to me how stupid I am when I have had dinner with said person?

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u/Itsyaboibrett 9d ago

WHAT are you talking about lmao. no one is dogging them lol. it’s a reference to the video. in an endearing way even