In the beginning of the song you can hear a signal, that is taken from the film Alien. It is the sound sequence when the S.O.S. signal appears on the screens of the spaceship Nostromo at the start of the film.
At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, Jamiroquai performed the song, recreating the famous floor moving concept with two moving walkways on the stage floor, going in different directions, for Jay Kay to use to dance on.
This became the second video released by Jamiroquai to be successfully done in one complete, albeit com-posited, shot; Space Cowboy being the first.
In a short making-of documentary, director Jonathan Glazer describes how the walls move on a stationary gray floor with no detail, to give the illusion that objects on the floor are moving.
In American comedy series Silicon Valley, the song is alluded to when the character Jack Barker has Jamiroquai perform a parody of the song entitled "Virtual Reality" as part of a release event for his company's new virtual reality venture.