Chords for Jamiroquai - Behind the Music Chapter 2 - Interview with Jay Kay

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_ _ I [Fm] got into a right state over that album.
A large portion of it I was a little bit off my nut. _
And that was in a way what the return of the space cowboy was.
It was just like, please come back down to earth, son.
[F] _ _ [Ab] _ _ _ _ It [E] was really thinly disguised to be about marijuana.
And in some sense [Abm] it was, but it was just about drug taking in general, I [Gb] suppose.
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But I did feel [B] like I was just out of my [Gb] box.
And I [Ab] felt like I wanted to come back in a little bit.
I was floating [Cm] up into another bloody [B] _ place.
I [Bb] think the breakthrough thing, [E] in a sense, was the video.
The video was cool.
The [B] video still is cool.
There's still a little move on it that [Eb] makes my heart flutter.
It brings a tear to my eye. _ _ _
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_ [Ab] It was something that created, I mean I remember we were on the [Gb] cover of USA Today with that video.
And it was something that also created a lot of interest within [Eb] the industry.
I'm talking about the video [Db] industry itself.
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[B] My original idea was to do these [Bb] travelator things, like at the [Ab] airport, and have them
shifting up and down on things.
It could work, but it would look bloody messy.
Jonathan Glazey was a great guy to work with as well.
You know, he phoned me up with this sort of triumphant, I've got it, lock off this camera,
_ and we'll move the [C] room around.
I was like, _ [E] what the fuck's he talking about?
[Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ And then when I got down to the shoot, all I could hear was this [B] rumbling.
So I sort of came in and did this rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble.
East!
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West!
[B] Slowly!
_ Northwest!
[Eb] Stop at south!
And I was like, [B] what's going on here?
And then I just jumped straight into this [Ebm] video and it was like, okay, alright, [Eb] stand
in the middle and [Ab] we go.
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ _ [Gb] I mean, the whole room itself [Ab] was [F] absolutely dizzying, you know, just by the end of the
first three and a half minute take, I was [Ab] like, where the hell am I?
What's [C] going on?
_ [B] Then when I saw it back on [Bb] the _ _ [B] screen, it was like, ah, I see what you mean.
_ [B] _ As you [Ebm] see, it's basically [Abm] done in, it's four [B] shots put together.
_ [D] And the [Ebm] rest is history, as they say, you know.
It's like 5 MTV [Bb] Awards video of the year.
_ [Eb] I'm very, very proud of [B] it being that good.
[D] It's a memorable piece [Eb] of work.
It will always be played and people will [B] always go, like they [D] still do to me, [Ab] how are those
chairs moving [B] like that?
So simple and so good.
[Eb] Then of course the other thing, of course it made every other [Gb] video after that five
times as bloody difficult to do.
You know, we're going to do another [C] version of Sanity.
It's [G] like, hard work, mate. _ _ _
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[Gb] _ _ [Em] _ I'm out of that and gone to heaven, [Gbm] cause it was quarter [B] past eleven [Em] on a Saturday in [Gbm] 1999.
_ [B] _ [Em] Let me give it to you straight.
When a man's got a 5.7 litre V12 Lamborghini Diablo Special Edition 30th Lightweight Anniversary
sitting in the garage at [Gbm] home, [B] you know, and it's [E] in lurid purple, you generally [Em] want to
get it out there.
And I do [Gb] remember I had quite a nutty [B] girlfriend at the time.
[Em] Before we started to make the video, [Gbm] she came and one day she said, _ [Abm] who's the cosmic [Gbm] girl, Jay?
_ _ _ _ [Db] _ She went, [Dbm] who's the cosmic girl going to be?
[Abm] I hope I'm the cosmic [Gbm] girl. _
_ [Db] And I thought, well, that's business and pleasure, mate, forget it.
[C] I thought, oh God, cosmic girl, what am I going to do for this bloody cosmic girl video?
Cosmic girl, cosmic girl, who is the cosmic girl?
I don't want to be sitting there with some bloody cosmic, you know, bird just going,
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I know what I'll do, I'll make the cosmic girl the Lamborghini.
_ _ _ _ [Em] Fantastic. _ _
[Gbm] _ _ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ So it [B] seemed like a bloody good idea [Em] to take this extremely fast Italian muscle car down
[G] to Spain and go and have it.
[Em] The only [Bm] problem with that being, of course, that I was in Germany on the [Em] tour bus, my
[Gbm] manager comes up.
[B] He [Em] said, you _
[Gb] know your [B] Lamborghini was going to have to be [Em] put on the truck to go to Spain?
[Gb] He said, well, the guy [G] moving it's crashed [Em] it.
Do what?
[G] The one of three ever made [Em] Lamborghini. _ _ _
[Gb] I said, [B] I was just like, what?
I said, well, we need to get another one.
It's got to be a purple, _ _ [Gb] metallic purple [B] Lamborghini.
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[D] By [B] chance, one [Abm] came up, the [Db] guy was selling it, with [B] 2000 kilometres on it, [Dbm] hardly driven. _
_ Great, got the car, [Ab] OK, [Gbm] let's push back the video, we'll start again.
[D] Let's get this right.
_ _ I'm going to fly out to Spain to do a show, and I said, I don't want anybody driving those
[E] cars until I get there. _
Oh, well, they're precision drivers, you know, precision drivers.
I said, oh really?
I said, I don't care how precise they are, I don't want them driving the car.
_ _ _ _ Anyway, I thought nothing more of it.
_ Flew in, _ _ got out of the jet, _ my manager was there, _ and everybody looked ashen faced.
I was like, why are you all so ashen faced?
I said, we don't know how to tell you this, but _ they've smashed the second Lamborghini,
_ _ _ and it's now got no windscreen in it.
_ _ _ The director, _ _ basically, they slid on a corner, knocked the camera crew off the cliff,
on the edge of this cliff we were driving on.
_ _ And I just _ _ hit the roof.
_ I just hit the roof.
And then I got there, and the director said to me, look, don't worry about it, you know,
we're just going to do this shot, and the precision drivers are going to drive the car.
I said, _ get out of that car.
And I immediately got into my little baby, and I assessed the damage to this, you know,
_ 170,000 pound motorcar, you know, and pride and joy, it's just been buggered completely.
Because of course now, how are you going to do a video without a bloody windscreen?
And you can see some of the shots where we had to keep shooting, where we'd run out of shots,
and you can see one of them with no windscreen.
If you've ever tried to drive a Lamborghini, trying to sing a song on a demanding Spanish road
to a camera in the front of the bonnet is really hard, you know.
Anyway, I hit the roof with this, I went ballistic, and eventually Lamborghini, you know,
they sent over, they literally shot over a brand new screen, and we kind of puttied the screen in,
and then we had ourselves a windscreen, and we could [N] carry on doing this video. _ _
_ _ _ _ Oh God, that was a nightmare.
It was a nightmare, but it was all right in the end. _ _
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