Right Here, Right Now (Fatboy Slim song)
"Right Here, Right Now" is a song by British big beat musician Fatboy Slim, released on 19 April 1999 as the fourth single from his second studio album, "You've Come a Long Way, Baby" (1998). The song samples "Ashes, the Rain & I" by James Gang and an Angela Bassett quote from American science fiction thriller film "Strange Days" (1995). "Right Here, Right Now" reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and became a top-40 hit in Australia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, and the Walloon region of Belgium. It was voted  by "Mixmag" readers as the 10th-greatest dance record of all time. Composition. The basic string melody of the song was sampled from the James Gang song "Ashes, the Rain & I". The lyrics ""right here, right now"" are a sample of Angela Bassett's voice saying ""This is your life, right here, right now!"" from the film "Strange Days" at the 1:43:21 mark. The album version of "Right Here, Right Now" ends with a radio talk between Bradley Jay, a DJ of the WBCN radio station of Boston, and a Fatboy Slim fan called Brad. Critical reception. "Daily Record" said  the song is "brilliant". Music video. The music video for the song, created by Hammer & Tongs, is an elaborate homage to the famous opening sequence of the French educational series "Once Upon a Time... Man". It shows a (scientifically inaccurate) timeline depicting the entire process of human evolution condensed into three and a half minutes. The beginning of the music video is set "350 billion years ago", and starts with a single celled eukaryote in the ocean evolving into a jellyfish, a pufferfish, and then a predatory fish. It manages to eat a smaller fish before leaping up onto dry  land. With a dinosaur visible in the background and an insect in front, it stays still for a few seconds before setting off and eating the insect. The land-fish evolves into a small alligator as it enters a forest. It sees a tall tree, which it climbs up. Its body is obscured by the tree as its hands visibly evolve until it arrives at the top as a baboon-like ape. It jumps from the tree into an icy landscape, enduring a blizzard as it evolves into a larger, gorilla-like ape. At the end of a large cliff , the ape beats its chest as the camera zooms out to show a vast desert. The ape jumps onto the ground, where it has evolved into a primate resembling an homo erectus. A large storm blows away much of its hair, turning it into a human (at this point the timer at the bottom right slows dramatically). The human runs faster and puts on some trousers and a T-shirt with the logo "I'm #1 so why try harder". When fully clothed, it turns into a modern human with a beard. The man walks through a city environment and  eats a hamburger (taken from a cardboard cutout of Fatboy Slim himself), he pulls off the beard and morphs into the obese character depicted on the cover of the album. He finally sits down on a bench at night, at which point the video ends. Track listings. UK and Australian CD single, UK 12-inch single UK cassette single and European CD single In popular culture. Manchester City, Arsenal, Inter Milan, Brighton & Hove Albion and many other teams play this song when their players walk out of the tunnel prior to a match. On 8 October 2019, Fatboy Slim made  a remix of the song using environmental activist Greta Thunberg's United Nations speech. The song was used for the opening sequence of the pilot episode for the television series "Third Watch".