![]() ![]() He immediately sought out indie rap luminaries like Dan the Automator and Del tha Funkee Homosapien. The music gave the Blur frontman a chance to sideline rock music for hip-hop, which he’d long loved from afar as one of the begrudging mouthpieces of the Britpop explosion. “And it’s all a bit of a cartoon really.” “We’re the generation whose stars come from Pop Idol and celebrity-wrestling shows,” Albarn told writer Neil Gaiman in Wired in 2005. Gorillaz started out on a lark, when Albarn and Tank Girl creator Jamie Hewlett floated the idea of a joke cartoon band as commentary on disposable pop culture. In Blur and Gorillaz, British singer-songwriter Damon Albarn has done just that. Our keenest creatives are able to mix valuable commentary on the state of our culture while offering up music that feels like respite from it. ![]() Pop can’t help but pick up on vibes emanating from the world. “The sky is fallin’ baby, drop that ass ‘fore it crash.” Prince famously dreamed of the world ending in a raucous dance party in “1999,” and while he might’ve been off by a few years, it’s hard not to look back on the turn of the century as the dramatic death of a certain peace in global consciousness. ![]()
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