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Humanz (Music)
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Humanz is the fifth studio album by Gorillaz, released in 2017.The group's first album following a many-year hiatus following Phase 3 and the extremely ambitious Plastic Beach, the album was approached as both a return to conceptual basics while catching up on the modern sensibilities that the group had missed during the interim. The original high concept was that of a loose "emotional response to politics," writing of a dark future where Donald Trump won the 2016 US presidential election (this was before he actually did win). The album also features a very prolific list of collaborators and guest features, including Benjamin Clementine, Popcaan, Vince Staples, Grace Jones, Pusha T, Jehnny Beth, and more.The album performed well and marked the band's fourth top-ten album in the US, but the reception was distinctly mixed compared to the widespread acclaim of previous projects. The most common criticisms were related to the album's loose structure as well as overabundance of features, with the consensus among critics and longtime fans being that Gorillaz the band (especially the voice of 2D) were being vastly overshadowed by their collaborators. This criticism would greatly inform the trajectory of future Gorillaz projects, with the vastly more 2D-centric The Now Now and the more evenly-handed collaborative series Song Machine.Preceded by The Fall. Followed by The Now Now. | |
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Villain Song: "Hallelujah Money." | |
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Special Guest: An absolute bevy of collaborators appear on the album, with every non-interlude track having at least one guest vocalist. Even the instrumental tracks feature a few guest players, with guitar parts by Damon Albarn's Blur bandmate Graham Coxon and synth parts by both Fela Kuti associate Cheick Tidiane Seck and French Synth-Pop pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre. | |
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Love Hurts | |
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Love Hurts: As per Gorillaz tradition. | |
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Beneath the Mask | |
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Beneath the Mask: The lyrics of "She's My Collar" imply that this is the case with the song's protagonist, who although he loves the girl he's with in secret, he refuses to drop his public persona around her, out of fear that the act of being truly vulnerable around another person will lead to bitter consequences. | |
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Significant Anagram: The license plate for their car in the music video for "Saturnz Barz" is "BASS TZAR RUN". May seem like usual Gorillaz word salad, but it's actually an anagram of the title, spelled with only one 'z' (either Saturnz Bars or Saturns Barz). | |
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Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers! | |
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Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: This seems to be the main message of "Strobelite," that even when life doesn't go the way you want it, that you'll be able to overcome the hardships and achieve a way of living that makes you happy. | |
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Dissonant Serenity | |
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Dissonant Serenity: Though the album as a whole is great at being cheerily and exceedingly unnerving throughout, "Sleeping Powder" and "Out of Body" stand out, with one being a depiction of 2-D's drug addiction set to a music video of him cheerily dancing throughout and the other as a dance party turned summoning circle, with the featured artist's voice remaining calm and happy even as things turn... weird. | |
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Hell Is That Noise | |
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Hell Is That Noise: The opening song "Ascension" boasts an absolutely startling modulated scream before its final chorus. | |
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Translated Cover Version | |
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"She's My Collar" (Kali Uchis Spanish Special) (2:47) | |
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"I Want" Song | |
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"I Want" Song: "Saturnz Barz." | |
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Revisiting the Roots | |
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Revisiting the Roots: Being their first album after a lengthy hiatus, this album was effectively Gorillaz catching up on what they had missed, in turn revisiting their much earlier albums. The tracklist is more of an assorted mixtape a la their debut self-titled album, while it borrows a dark aesthetic and politically-driven tone reminiscent of Demon Days. | |
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While Rome Burns | |
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While Rome Burns: The broad overarching concept of Humanz is depicting a party as the world begins succumbing to the apocalypse. Damon Albarn went on saying that above all else, the album's core tenants are "pain, joy, and urgency", hence why a vast bulk of the songs happen to be incredibly lively and danceable, but also very thematically stark and political, referencing a world about to self-destruct from corruption and either despairing in it, or attempting to grow from it while it lasts. | |
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Serial Homewrecker | |
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Serial Homewrecker: The protagonist of "Saturnz Barz" is implied to have become one of these out of loneliness and a lack of true connection with those around him, having resorted to dysfunctional relationships in order to get the companionship he craves. | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz | |
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Xtreme Kool Letterz: Utilized on both the album's title and multiple songs within, most notably "Saturnz Barz," "Momentz," and "Circle of Friendz." The Super Deluxe edition also gives us "Duetz", "Midnite Float" and "Tranzformer". | |
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Den of Iniquity | |
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Den of Iniquity: Implied in the song "She's My Collar." | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: The Musical Squares album cover is a noticeable homage to The Beatles’ Let It Be, featuring four square portraits of the individual band members against a black backdrop. This also isn't the first time that the group has referenced Let It Be for one of their covers, making it an internal Shout-Out as well. Each member's pose and appearance is an additional shout-out to a famous musician: 2D is Beck, Noodle is Björk, Russel is The Notorious B.I.G. and Murdoc is Keith Richards. | |
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Musical Squares: The album cover makes use of this, featuring 3D-modeled portraits of the band members. | |
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Downer Beginning | |
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Downer Beginning: "Ascension" kicks off the album and its apocalyptic themes right away, establishing that the world is past the point of no return and annihilation is imminent, with all there left to is to party like there truly is no tomorrow. | |
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Textless Album Cover: Unlike their previous LPs, Humanz does not feature the album's title and the band's name. | |
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