Right Here Right Now (song)
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| Single by Fatboy Slim from the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby |
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| Released | April 19, 1999 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Genre | Big Beat | ||||
| Length | 6:27 | ||||
| Label | Atlantic Records | ||||
| Producer | Fatboy Slim | ||||
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"Right Here Right Now" is a 1999 single by Fatboy Slim. The song reached #2 on the UK charts. It was released on the studio album You've Come a Long Way, Baby and the compilation album The Greatest Hits - Why Try Harder. The song was featured in the movie Big Fat Liar.
The basic string melody of the song was sampled from the Joe Walsh song, "Ashes, The Rain & I". The lyrics 'right here right now' are a sample of Angela Bassett's voice from the film Strange Days at the 1:39:08 mark.
[edit] Music video
The music video of the single shows the process of evolution over millions of years condensed into three and a half minutes. It starts with a single cell organism 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 hands are visible evolving until it arrives at the top as a chimp-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 massive desert.
The ape jumps onto the ground, where it has evolved into a primate resembling an orang-utan. A large storm blows away much of its hair, turning it into a human. The human runs much faster and puts on some trousers and a shirt. When fully clothed, it turns into a modern human with a beard. The man walks through a city environment and eats some food, at which point he loses the beard and turns into the obese person from the cover of You've Come a Long Way, Baby. He finally sits down on a bench at night, at which point the video ends.
[edit] Trivia
- The album version is much longer than the single version due to the fact that an interlude set in the style of a radio request leads on the next song of the You've Come a Long Way, Baby album "The Rockafeller Skank", which was the 2nd single released off that album.
- The track should not be confused with the 1991 single by Jesus Jones.
- Right Here Right Now was the also played during the opening ceremony of the 2007 Centenary World Scout Jamboree, at Hylands Park, Essex, UK.
