Deeper Underground

"Deeper Underground" is a single by British funk/acid jazz band Jamiroquai that appeared 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.

"Deeper Underground"
Single by Jamiroquai
from the album Godzilla: The Album and Synkronized
B-side"Deeper Underground" remixes
Released13 July 1998 (1998-07-13)
Recorded1998
Genre
Length
  • 3:33 (radio edit)
  • 4:44 (album version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Rick Pope
Jamiroquai singles chronology
"High Times"
(1997)		 "Deeper Underground"
(1998)		 "Canned Heat"
(1999)

The song became a hit in several countries, finding the most success in the band's native United Kingdom, and becoming the group's first and only single to reach number one on the UK Singles Chart,[1] selling over 339,100 copies in the UK as of March 2017.

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 dances on top of the seats. Several other things go through the screen, including a helicopter, cars, and a New York taxi. 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.

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.

Track listings

Remixes

Charts and sales

References
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