#its just weirdly prevelant today

[companion-showdown]

hey, if you want to leave tags on these about how much you hate such and such character, or you think the show is shit after whatever point, uhhhh, maybe don't

[7grandmel]

Todays rip: 07/11/2023

Rearranging Furniture in the Underground Secret Base

Season 7 Featured on: The Year of Grand Dad Sound Selection [Side A]

Ripped by Kirbio

Tentative rip name: Battling, Catching, Rearranging Pokéballs

Dancing, walking, rearranging furniture...~

It all began earlier this year. There was something so fascinating about realizing that, those weirdly prevelant Family Guy moment YouTube Shorts, weren't just affecting me...they were showing up for a TON of YouTube Shorts-scrollers the world over. The plague of algorithmic content zeroed in on what would retain a general audience for the longest average time, and it just...happened to be mediocre Family Guy jokes? But this one joke, this spoof of Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai, kind of just...united us Shorts-watchers like nothing else had? The joke was pretty funny in of itself, but the instrumental arrangement in the bit was surprisingly well done for being "just a cutaway gag", and I think it just reminded a whole generation of people all at once just how good of a song Virtual Insanity is. And like a lot of other frequently-featured bands featured on SiIva, it drew my attention toward Jamiroquai as well.

Now, I've covered SiIva's prior love shown toward Route 228 earlier on this blog, with The 2:28 Collab and its sequel - due pretty much solely to these rips, its become a tune dear to a lot of SiIva viewers: a bonafide jazz classic, if you will! The second this was uploaded I was there at the ready, and what Rearranging Furniture in the Underground Secret Base gave me in turn felt like absolute euphoria. Pure SiIvaGunner nostalgia from The 2:28 Collab, blended perfectly with the internet's current obsession with Jamiroquai, in a way that felt...almost destined to happen. As some wise commenters have pointed out, two original songs have a lot in common in terms of sound and composition - Rearranging Furniture in the Underground Secret Base, in turn, feels like finally getting that perfect payoff to a setup made long ago. It's an arrangement that pulls off everything it sets up with flying colors, and results in a great love letter to the past of SiIvaGunner, the legacy of Virtual Insanity, and its resurgence in popularity with a new generation. All thanks to the mishap and mayhem of modern internet algorithms. If that's not virtual insanity, I don't know what is.