| "Right Here, Right Now" | ||||
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| Single by Fatboy Slim | ||||
| from the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby | ||||
| Released | 19 April 1999 | |||
| Format | CD | |||
| Genre | Big beat | |||
| Length | 6:27 | |||
| Label | Skint | |||
| Producer | Fatboy Slim | |||
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"Right Here, Right Now" is a song by British big beat musician Fatboy Slim. It was released as a single from the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby. The song reached No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart.
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 from the film Strange Days at the 1:39:08 mark.
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The music video, created by Hammer & Tongs, shows a depiction of the process of 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 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 visibly 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 vast desert.
The ape jumps onto the ground, where it has evolved into a primate resembling an orangutan. 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 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 (taken from a cardboard cutout of Fatboy Slim himself), 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. The T-shirt he is wearing reads 'I'm #1 so why try harder'.
The song was used in a 1999 commercial for Oldsmobile.
In 2001 the song featured in an advertisement campaign by the New York Stock Exchange[1]. The song was also the title and theme of Russell Howard's 2011 arena tour of the same name.
The song was also featured in the film Big Fat Liar and in the theatrical trailers for the films The Virgin Suicides and Crank.
The song featured in season 3 episode 9 of the TV series Veronica Mars entitled "Spit & Eggs". In 2011, the TV channel Science used the song to promote the TV series Curiosity.
nPower League 2 side Bristol Rovers F.C. and Premier League side Manchester City both use Right Here, Right Now as their walk-out song before a home match. The song was also used as the opening song for the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV
The song was also used for the 2003 promo video of the Apple Power Mac G5 workstation.
| Chart (1999) | Peak position |
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| UK Singles Chart | 2 |
| Chart (2010) | Peak position |
| UK Dance Chart | 38 |
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