Juxtapozed with U

[1] The song was initially conceived as a duet but, after both Brian Harvey and Bobby Brown turned the band down, lead singer Gruff Rhys sang the entire track, using a vocoder on the verses to imitate another person.

[2][3] Rhys has claimed that he sees "Juxtapozed with U" as "fairly subversive" because its polished pop style was in stark contrast to the "macho" guitar music the band felt was prevalent in 2001.

The track was originally conceived as a duet, with the band approaching both Brian Harvey from East 17, and Bobby Brown to sing alongside Gruff Rhys.

The song breaks down at 25 seconds for the first verse with just bass, drums, acoustic guitar and occasional synthesizer accompanying Gruff Rhys's vocals which are fed through a vocoder.

[2] The first chorus begins at 47 seconds with the strings and harp re-entering while Rhys sings the words "You've got to tolerate all those people that you hate, I'm not in love with you but I won't hold that against you" twice without the use of a vocoder.

The first, by the Super Furry Animals themselves, is 3 minutes 23 seconds in length and largely follows the arrangement of the original with lengthy instrumental passages between each verse and chorus.

Electronic drums and keyboards play alongside Gruff Rhys's vocals with barely any recognisable instrumentation from the version of the track which appears on Rings Around the World.

[10][11][12] Uncut described the track as a "delirious soul pastiche" and suggested Rhys's lyrics make a "wry plea for understanding between races and classes" while PopMatters claimed the song is about gentrification.

[13][14] Entertainment Weekly was critical of "Juxtapozed with U", describing it as an "awful lite-rock homage" which resembles the theme tune to The Love Boat.

The microphone is shown attempting to hand out flyers alongside a man dressed in a banana costume who is much more successful at getting people to take the leaflets from him.

The man checks his watch and puts a CD in the car's stereo before the video switches to an outside shot of the vehicle driving through a tunnel and a busy street.

The next shot shows the museum's interior exhibit which consists of a black and neon blue grids with various mathematical symbols and currency signs on the walls.

The couple talk to one of the crowd in the club before leaving the building and walking past the valet to a lift which takes them to a party on the roof of a skyscraper.

Shots of a swimming pool on the skyscraper's roof and the couple kissing are intercut with images of fire engines driving through the streets past the Chrysler Building.

A person dressed in a cardboard costume with a large cardboard head and arms exits the central door of a two storey house which is painted cream. A short path leads directly from the door through a small garden to the pavement outside. To the left of the path a man dressed as a camcorder stands on the pavement behind a lamppost, facing the doorway. At the very end of the path, to the right, a man dressed as a microphone stands sideways, looking at the doorway. On the pavement to the right of the path a person dressed as a clapperboard stands looking down the pavement towards the person dressed as a camcorder.
Three people dressed in cardboard costumes as a camcorder , microphone and clapperboard respectively, meet a fourth person with a large cardboard head and arms (seen here in the centre exiting the house) in the Fukme 99 video.
A computer generated image showing a man and a woman at the centre of a crowd. Both the man and women and the crowd have dark blue outlines, light blue heads and bodies with patches of light green and larger patches of red blotches with yellow outlines on the centre of their chests, arms and heads. The background is black with a thin neon blue square pattern. Towards the top of the picture neon blue mathematical symbols and currency signs can be seen.
The promotional video for "Juxtapozed with U" features a woman and a man seen as thermal images . This screenshot shows the pair visiting a nightclub with mathematical symbols and currency signs on the walls.