Deeper Underground

"Deeper Underground"
Single by Jamiroquai
from the album Godzilla: The Album and Synkronized
B-side"High Times"
Released20 May 1998 (1998-05-20)
Length
  • 4:44 (album version)
  • 3:33 (radio edit)
LabelSony Soho Square
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Rick Pope
Jamiroquai singles chronology
"High Times"
(1997) 		"Deeper Underground"
(1998) 		"Canned Heat"
(1999)

"Deeper Underground" is a single by British funk and acid jazz band Jamiroquai, originally from the 1997 B-Side of the single High Times, then on the soundtrack to the 1998 film Godzilla. The song was also included as a bonus track on the group's fourth studio album, Synkronized, as well as on the special edition of the group's fifth album, A Funk Odyssey (2001).

Released in Japan in May 1998 and in the United Kingdom two months later, "Deeper Underground" became a hit in several countries, giving Jamiroquai their only number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, selling over 339,100 copies in the UK as of March 2017.

This song was one of the last to feature founding bassist Stuart Zender, before his departure during the recording of Synkronized.

Music video

Directed by Mike Lipscombe, the music video was used as a promotional tool for the 1998 film Godzilla. Partly shot on location at Grays' State Theatre, it depicts a 3D film theatre in which the movie is being shown. However, as the screen shows Godzilla walking on the ocean floor, one of its feet breaks the screen, causing water to flood into the theatre as if the screen were made of glass and everything behind it were real. The theatre turns into chaos as the audience tries to get out alive, in the midst of which Jay Kay appears and sings and dances on top of the seats. Several other things go through the screen, including a helicopter, cars, and New York taxis. Some stills from the movie are also interspaced between various scenes. At the end of the video, the camera pans out, and it emerges that this entire flood was itself being watched by a different cinema audience on another screen.

During the making of the video, the extras were not informed beforehand about the sudden influx of water near the start of the video, so the terrified reactions as they try to escape are actually genuine.[1]

Another version of the video replaces Godzilla with a man in the movie who smashes an aquarium, causing the theatre to flood. The rest of the video is completely identical.[2][3]

Track listings

Charts

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[36] Silver 339,100[35]

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
Japan 20 May 1998 CD Epic [37]
United Kingdom 13 July 1998
  • CD
  • cassette
 Sony Soho Square [38]
United States 29 September 1998 Contemporary hit radio Work [39]

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