Gorillaz Attempt at a poltical statement lol

easyrider · 20 Jan 2017 at 10:51

Utter Dross

I mean does anyone buy into this at all?

Its a dreadful record attacking the Trump administration

But it fails on so many levels.

Its ludicrous.

A political record should be memorable and in your face...This totally misses the mark and is so forgettable.

Just reading some reviews in the music press about this makes my blood boil :mad:

No Doubt Gorillaz will earn huge dollars from this release a seemingly absolute contradiction to the original message.

aardvark · 20 Jan 2017 at 11:07

lol - thats garbage.
shame as i quite like gorillaz.

Quartz · 20 Jan 2017 at 11:23

It got you to talk about it, so it actually worked.

something daft already!! · 20 Jan 2017 at 11:26

You ain't Happy? Feeling bad?

easyrider · 20 Jan 2017 at 11:36

Quartz said:
It got you to talk about it, so it actually worked.

Hardly...

varkanoid · 22 Jan 2017 at 20:49

I misread the title and though it was the next Godzilla film

RobDogDog · 22 Jan 2017 at 21:10

Thought is was crap.

robgmun · 22 Jan 2017 at 21:15

That was terrible, shame as someone said i used to love gorillaz but their heyday has long past and they're no longer realivent

Nitefly · 22 Jan 2017 at 21:51

Thought that was the best thing they ever did tbh (although the last 5 seconds were so bad it almost seems like an inside joke?!).

Every album they have done has sounded like a bunch of drab, pedestrian b-sides. They did two great singles, 19-2000 and Dare. With the rest the stylisation and the music videos were the best thing about them. Please let me forget the rest of it. Musically anyway..

explicit4u · 23 Mar 2017 at 21:48

Not sure if it's worth starting a new thread but some album info has dropped as well as 4 new songs that I have to say I've really enjoyed.

Can't wait to hear the album at Dreamland!

Youtube channel

Album info

PapaLazaru · 23 Mar 2017 at 22:23

360 vid.

G-MAN2004 · 8 May 2017 at 07:31

Wow, just watched that performance on Graham Norton. We've lost Noel. He's gone forever. Absolutely lost the plot, as Liam so rightly put it. Utter, utter dross.

Mak3R · 8 May 2017 at 08:03

G-MAN2004 said:
Wow, just watched that performance on Graham Norton. We've lost Noel. He's gone forever. Absolutely lost the plot, as Liam so rightly put it. Utter, utter dross.

Saw that too, was watching with the wife and I laughed out loud during it.
Her - "What you laughing at?"
ME - "This is just ****".

fez · 9 May 2017 at 12:55

This is the issue with "celebrities" being political. People will listen to them because they are famous, not because what they are saying is insightful, true or has any merit.

I went to a Russell Howard gig a few months back and it felt like half his show was political **** aimed at the retarded masses. Load of chest thumping statements that had 0 substance to them but people lapped it up. This seems to be the sad state of where culture is going I'm afraid.

Rroff · 9 May 2017 at 13:00

Never seen any particular political agenda or attempt to make a statement with Russell Howard though - he has always taken the mick out of whoever is in power politically just because they are in politics.

Nitefly · 9 May 2017 at 13:16

fez said:
This is the issue with "celebrities" being political. People will listen to them because they are famous, not because what they are saying is insightful, true or has any merit.

I went to a Russell Howard gig a few months back and it felt like half his show was political **** aimed at the retarded masses. Load of chest thumping statements that had 0 substance to them but people lapped it up. This seems to be the sad state of where culture is going I'm afraid.

I know exactly what you're talking about - I saw that tour and he made a comment about Nigel Farage promising £350 million to the NHS.... lots of whooping and laughter but I was just sat there thinking ".... errr he didn't say that."

fez · 9 May 2017 at 15:44

Rroff said:
Never seen any particular political agenda or attempt to make a statement with Russell Howard though - he has always taken the mick out of whoever is in power politically just because they are in politics.

Have to say I wasn't expecting it at all. I have watching good news occasionally for years and its never been like that. This was a live show on his last tour however.

Nitefly said:
I know exactly what you're talking about - I saw that tour and he made a comment about Nigel Farage promising £350 million to the NHS.... lots of whooping and laughter but I was just sat there thinking ".... errr he didn't say that."

It just made me think of this scene from Black Dynamite.

All very emotive but completely devoid of any substance.

Vonhelmet · 9 May 2017 at 17:48

Shame the Beastie Boys aren't still a going concern, they'd be great right about now.

Rroff · 9 May 2017 at 17:59

fez said:
Have to say I wasn't expecting it at all. I have watching good news occasionally for years and its never been like that. This was a live show on his last tour however.

Was going to say I've not kept up with him recently so might have changed.

Phonesis · 22 May 2017 at 14:34

Not a fan of new Gorillaz album. Sadly, not a fan of new Linkin Park album either. And even more sadly, not a fan of new Muse single. Basically, all my favourite bands from the 90s and 2000s are starting to fail at hitting the mark it seems.