For anyone who cares, a Gorillaz track came out of the working wood a few days ago.
For the first time in 6 years, the Gorillaz came out with a new song. I've been waiting for 3-4 of those years.
It was such a long wait for a single track that they made! I really think at this point that nothing could have lived up to my expectations. I wasn't even their biggest fan or anything it's that their albums made a significant difference in my life.
They got me through hard times. (whatever "hard" times I've gone through at this point in my life)
Damon Albarn is a bit of an inspiration, even though I haven't followed his other band Blur...
Anyway, I can't describe my emotions towards the song properly. So I'm just gonna vent and try to describe what blows out.
Remember, I am speaking as a passionate fan.
Where to start? The song itself.
The song is uh...political. Well...It's a metaphor. It's a bit confusing and in a Nintendo forum, I shouldn't go into it. But if you go to Genius and look over the lyrics, you'll get it. As a person who loves thinking about things under their surface meaning a bit, it certainly scratches that itch. But the fact that this song is a direct response to a political event just KILLS me.
The first song in 6 YEARS and this is the subject matter? I wouldn't be as mad if the whole point of the Gorillaz was to be timeless! I mean, A Tribe called Quest made a few songs on their album about the same general subject after not making an Album for 20 years, and I'm not even close to cross with them. What's up? Well, Tribe Called Quest presented their situation as a rise to action after seeing a cause they cared about particularly. The Gorillaz have been teasing an album for ****, I don't even remember how long ago. It had to be at LEAST 2014. There is no way that they thought after 6 years, that releasing a track that isn't to their usual quality of timelessness was a good idea. At any other time, I would mention the other side's perspective but seeing as I am venting, I don't consider it necessary.
But moving on from the subject, there is the actual sound of the song itself. This is where I'm torn. This is the part that is making me break apart enough to not go to bed yet just to write these words. The song itself is Beautiful. It made me shed a single tear because of the sound that reminded me of the end of their second album "Demon Days" but it sounds...I don't even know...
Mature. I guess it sounds more mature. The thing about Gorillaz is that they always knew their audience. Their first album "Gorillaz" sounded a bit like what early teens would like having a bunch of sing along songs and high bpm tunes. "Demon Days" is a bit like what late teens would like, having more "down to earth" stuff, having some slower atmospheric songs, and exploring some themes that wouldn't go over the average 17 year old's head. (I distinctly remember seeing their songs from this era on Toonami) Their Third album "Plastic Beach" was quite experimental compared to their other 2 albums and explored many themes. One song "Superfast Jellyfish" has a whole list of themes in the lyrics like Consumerism, Exploitation of Nature, and Manipulation of Consumers. Now we get to the 4th album. This song which isn't part of the 4th album per say but shows their new sound has an expansion of "Plastic Beach"'s sound in a different way. It's incredibly to describe with words. It's just an emotion, you know. The instruments's sound distinctly like them. It's just different. It gives off a different mood. It sounds legitimately like an Apocalypse. With the people singing in the background just help to give this air of the good men of this world of ours going to another plane of existence much more pleasurable than ours now corrupted and destroyed by legal tender, now with no hope of recovery and the people who couldn't go up with those good men now subject to the world they created for themselves with now chance of escape, looked down upon by the ones they tried to corrupt. It's gives me a paragraph and a half worth of thoughts. That's more than usual for a Gorillaz song, way more than a regular song. It's so deep in it's instrumentation, it's insane.
I can't forget about the singer Benjamin Clementine. Who makes the song so emotions for me. His British accent, deep tone, his inflection of his words just add to the depth of the song. It gives it that extra push from a fantastic song to a masterful piece. His singing isn't similar to any particular Damon Albarn performance but it reminds me of the track "Broken" off of "Plastic Beach". So full of emotion. But Money is giving more of a Bittersweet emotion, Broken is giving a...Broken emotion.
The pure emotions of track are harrowing. They have very visual political beliefs. They show it through this song.
Oh. I'm falling asleep. I gotta finish whenever. Tomorrow. Maybe.Tell me what you think forum. Night.
Edit: Nah. I'll just leave it alone.
This is the track BTw:
But its mostly me, my dad and my sister that feed the dog, let him outside, give him his meds and , since she wont do it, discipline him