With Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Del the Funky Homosapien.
In Gorillaz, we got a living, breathing playlist. Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood: Directed by Pete Candeland, Jamie Hewlett. Even as Blur’s increasingly intrepid music distanced. However, the concept of a virtual band had another appeal for Blur frontman Albarn: It allowed him to disappear.
Even when they projected dystopia, they made the future sound bright (“On Melancholy Hill”). The traditional origin story says Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett conceived Gorillaz as a comment on the soullessness and artifice of pop at the turn of the millennium.
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That they had no fixed lineup and an ever-rotating series of vocalists and collaborators (from Elton John to De La Soul, Clash bassist Paul Simonon to Afro-Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer) not only undercut old ideas of what it meant to be a “band,” it projected a vision that felt communal, even a little utopian, unbound by borders cultural, stylistic, or otherwise. Addeddate 14:03:49 Identifier gorillaz-clint-eastwood-official-video-gorillaz-315814da-3a-7b-110bb-247c-4c-1c-412aabc202009 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6. A(z) 'Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood' cím videót 'ORIGO TECHBÁZIS' nev felhasználó töltötte fel a(z) 'zene' kategóriába. But in retrospect, Gorillaz’s work-the electro-indie pop of “Feel Good Inc.” and “Dare,” the leftfield hip-hop of “Clint Eastwood” and “Dirty Harry,” the bits of American gospel, African folk, and dub-reflected a rootless, fragmented world that has only gotten more familiar with time. The question hit them: If culture was already fake, why keep pretending it was real?Īt first glance, the idea of an animated “virtual band”-the sprightly 2-D, rogue Murdoc Niccals, gangsta Russel Hobbs, and sweet outsider Noodle-seemed a little gimmicky, an art-school shot at mainstream pop. The song is a mix of electronic music, dub, hip hop and rock. The song is named after the actor of the same name due to its similarity to the theme music of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. This was the dawn of reality TV-shows that turned so-called real life into prepackaged stories and people into cartoons. About Clint Eastwood 'Clint Eastwood' is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz, released as the first single from their self-titled debut album in March 2001. and Dare, the leftfield hip-hop of Clint Eastwood and Dirty Harry, the bits of American gospel, African folk, and dubreflected a rootless, fragmented world that has only gotten more familiar with time. Their eyes were glazed, their minds empty. But in retrospect, Gorillaz’s workthe electro-indie pop of Feel Good Inc. One day in the late '90s, comic-book artist Jamie Hewlett and Blur singer Damon Albarn were sitting around in their West London flat watching TV-a brand-new Panasonic, eight channels on screen at once.
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