Music

Jamiroquai - Cosmic Girl

이종석. 2020. 6. 3. 09:33

 

 

 

가사

I must've died and gone to heaven
'Cause it was a quarter past eleven
On a Saturday in 1999
Right across from where I'm standing
On the dance floor she was landing
It was clear that she was from another time
Like some baby Barbarella
With the stars as her umbrella
She asked me if I'd like to magnetize
Do I have to go star-trekking
'Cause it's you I should be checking
So she laser beamed me with her cosmic eyes

 

She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
My heart's at zero gravity
She's from a cosmic world
Putting me in ecstasy
Transmitting on my frequency
She's cosmic

 

I'm scanning all my radars
We'll she said she's from a quasar
Forty thousand million light years away
It's a distant solar system
I tried to phone but they don't list 'em
So I asked her for a number all the same
She said, step in my transporter
So I can teleport ya
All around my heavenly body
This could be a close encounter
I should take care not to flounder
Sends me into hyperspace, when I see her pretty face

 

She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
My heart's at zero gravity
She's from a cosmic world
Putting me in ecstasy
Transmitting on my frequency
She's cosmic

 

Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face
Sends me into hyperspace when I see her pretty face

 

She's just a cosmic girl
From another galaxy
Transmitting on my frequency yeah cosmic, oh
Can't you be my cosmic woman?
I need you, I want you to be my cosmic girl
For the rest of time

 

 

 

 

 

우리나라에서 유명한 일렉트로닉, 하우스 밴드를 우리나라에서 유명한 일렉트로닉, 하우스 밴드를 꼽자면 보통 대부분 클래지콰이, 하우스 룰즈 등을 꼽을 것이다.
이들 음악을 들어보면 한 가지 공통점을 발견할 수 있는데, 바로 애시드 재즈, 또는 애시드 하우스의 영향이 짙게 배어있다는 점이다.
이 중에서 그들에게 가장 큰 영향을 끼친 밴드를 꼽자면 단연 자미로콰이가 아닐까.
(클래지콰이는 애초에 그룹 이름부터가...)

현재는 누 디스코, 테크노 등 다양한 장르의 음악을 하고 있는 자미로콰이지만,
지금도 사람들에게 자미로콰이의 최고 명반을 뽑으라 하면 대부분 애시드 재즈의 정석을 보여줬던 3집을 뽑지 않을까 싶다.
실제로도 이 시기의 자미로콰이의 음악들이 대한민국 실용음악계에 지대한 영향을 끼쳤다.
Cosmic Girl은 그들의 역량이 최고조에 달해있었던 3집에 수록되어 있는 곡으로, 타이틀 곡인 Virtual Insanity와 더불어 해당 앨범에서 가장 유명한 곡이다.
특히 곡 자체가 완성도가 높은 것도 있지만, 1집부터 3집까지 멤버로 활동했던 베이시스트 스튜어트 젠더의 연주를 들을 수 있다는 것으로도 가치가 있는 곡이다.

 


 

※ 이 곡은 Jamiroquai의 정규 3집 앨범 'Travelling Without Moving' (1996) 에 2번 트랙으로 수록되어 있습니다.