Creativity Quote by Jay Kay

There is a quiet flex hiding in Jay Kay's breezy inventory of personnel. He lists the ingredients like a studio grocery run - pool of musicians, Benjamin Wright on strings, great backing singers - but the subtext is authorship by curation. The intent is to frame "Dynamite" and its siblings not as accidents of inspiration, but as products of a deliberate, expensive ecosystem: Los Angeles as a machine that turns time and talent into sheen.

A month in LA matters because it signals a particular kind of legitimacy. Not just "we recorded in America", but we plugged into the city's professional bloodstream: session players who can nail a groove in one take, arrangers with a film-score sense of drama, singers who can sell a hook without stealing it. Naming Benjamin Wright is especially telling. It's a choice to foreground orchestration - a craft detail - which positions Jamiroquai's funk-pop as engineered sophistication rather than retro cosplay.

The phrase "that kind of flavour" does a lot of work. It's casual, almost evasive, as if the sound can't be reduced to technical terms. But it's also brand language: LA becomes a seasoning, not a co-author, keeping Kay at the center while acknowledging the collaborative reality of big-studio music. In a post-grunge, turn-of-the-millennium moment when "authenticity" was policed, this is a savvy reframing: polish isn't betrayal, it's the point. The glamour is the labor.