Listening to them now and i just wondered, ta.
2007-01-22 19:06:15 · 4 answers · asked by ........ 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
i think it roughly translates as smug little git, who is a serial speeder in cars and possess a collection of absurd headgear
2007-01-22 19:12:20 · answer #1 · answered by Troubled Joe(the ghost of) 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The name Jamiroquai is a conglomeration of the word "jam" and the name of the Native American peoples, the Iroquois, indigenous to central and eastern United States and Canada. The Iroquois Confederacy or Iroquois League - consisting of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca Indians - was the most powerful and advanced American Indian nation from the early seventeenth century until the American Revolution (in which most tribes joined the British and were massacred during the war). There are still some Mohawk and Cayuga living on reservations in Ontario, most Oneida are in Wisconsin. Most Iroquois now live in New York. The Iroquois population in the US and Canada is today around 29,000.
In the liner notes to Emergency on Planet Earth, Jay Kay writes that the name Jamiroquai is put forth to the Iroquois and other Native American peoples "with the utmost respect to all of you because I know you are right." The value placed on natural law and the earth in this message from Jay would seem to grow out of his admiration of the cultures of the Iroquois and other Native American peoples. On the track "Manifest Destiny," from the band's second album, The Return of the Space Cowboy, Jay reflects upon the more than four centuries of violent, rapacious subjugation of the Native American peoples, expressing a profound sadness and attempting to come to terms with "the shame of my ancestry."
2007-01-22 19:12:45 · answer #2 · answered by Jewel 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Jamiroquai is an English band. Since the band's launch, they have sold over 20 million albums worldwide.
Jamiroquai was initially the most prominent component in the early-1990s London-based acid jazz movement, alongside groups such as Incognito, the Brand New Heavies, Galliano, and Corduroy. Subsequent albums have explored other musical directions.
2007-01-22 19:13:03 · answer #3 · answered by sanjaykchawla 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means we are flaming p u s s i e b o y s
2007-01-22 19:10:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋