With personnel shifts in the band taken care of and a studio installed in his recently purchased Buckinghamshire manor, Jay was able to test the water for his future direction with 99's 4 million seller 'Synkronized'. As Jay boldly launches out into the next phase of his funk trek Jamiroquai has evolved into a multi-platinum funk myth, with all the surrounding distortion and delicious madness of a classic rockstar. At 31, still younger than a a lot of 'youth' music's leading lights, he has the country retreat, the tabloid attention on his love life, the fast cars, the loose tongue, the mercurial attitude, qualifying him as a fully fledged, top value superstar. I'm still growing up, and in a way I'm still a kid at heart. I think I will always be one of those sort of people.
Some people grow up really fast and some grow up really slow.
But everything I write in a song is still what I mean, and I still stick to my basic theories about life. Also what I do doesn't hurt anybody, it doesn't hurt a soul. A funk odyssey' is hyper-motivating on many levels. A state of the art attack on your ass, your heart and your mind. It's moved on.