Editing Jamiroquai (section)

=== Lyrics ===
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Jamiroquai's lyrics have touched on socially charged themes. With ''Emergency on Planet Earth'' (1993), it revolves around environmental awareness and speaks out against war.<ref name="Dawes-1993" /><ref name="Odell-1997" /> ''The Return of the Space Cowboy'' (1994) contains themes of homelessness, [[Native American civil rights|Native American rights]], [[Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994|youth protests]], and slavery.<ref name="Odell-1997" />

<ref name="Kay-2013b" /><ref name="Bush-2018">{{cite web|last=Bush|first=John|title=The Return of the Space Cowboy|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-return-of-the-space-cowboy-mw0000125947|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080341/https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-return-of-the-space-cowboy-mw0000125947|archive-date=15 December 2020|access-date=20 January 2018|publisher=AllMusic}}</ref> "Virtual Insanity" from ''Travelling Without Moving'' (1996) is about the prevalence of technology and the replication and simulation of life.<ref name="Moon-1997" /> The lyrics of ''Automaton'' (2017) allude to dystopian films and compromised relationships within a digital landscape.<ref name="Driver-2017">{{cite web|last=Driver|first=Richard|date=20 April 2017|title=Jamiroquai: Automaton|url=https://www.popmatters.com/jamiroquai-automaton-2495394322.html|access-date=14 June 2020|website=PopMatters|archive-date=15 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215080355/https://www.popmatters.com/jamiroquai-automaton-2495394322.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

However, critics wrote that the band had focused more on "boy–girl seductions" and "having fun" rather than social justice,<ref name="Koba-2001" /><ref>{{cite journal|last=Kellogg|first=Carolyn|date=March 1997|title=Travelling Without Moving|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ai0EAAAAMBAJ&q=jamiroquai&pg=PT20|journal=[[CMJ New Music Monthly]]|pages=32|via=Google Books|access-date=18 January 2018}}</ref> and that Kay's interest in sports cars contradicts his earlier beliefs.{{sfn|Larkin|2011|page=1986}}<ref name="Markwell-1999" /><ref name="paper">{{cite web|date=1 November 1997|title=Stoned Groove: Jamiroquai's Jay Kay|url=http://www.papermag.com/stoned-groove-jamiroquais-jay-kay-1425142910.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118122730/https://www.papermag.com/stoned-groove-jamiroquais-jay-kay-1425142910.html|archive-date=18 January 2018|access-date=6 September 2018|website=[[Paper (magazine)|Paper]]}}</ref> Kay was reluctant to release ''Travelling Without Moving'' (1996), as it adopted a motorcar concept,{{efn|1=The album cover is an homage to the [[Ferrari]] logo with the band's "Buffalo Man" logo.<ref name="paper" />|group=nb}} but he added: "just because I love to drive a fast car, that doesn't mean I believe in [destroying the environment.]"<ref name="Poulton-1996">{{cite journal|last=Poulton|first=Sonia|date=1996|title=Getting personal with Jamiroquai's Jay Kay|url=https://archive.org/stream/muzik017_october_1996#page/n107/mode/2up/search/jamiroquai|journal=[[Muzik]]|volume=17|pages=108|via=Wayback Machine}}</ref> He also stated in separate interviews he was tired of being "[a] troubadour of social conscious[ness]",<ref name="Odell-1997" /> and "after a while you realise that people won't boogie and dance to [politics]."<ref name="Markwell-1999" />{{clear left}}