If you have to go wrong in such fashion though, it feels good to know it was with “Feel Good Inc.,” a Gorillaz song that features none other than anti-mainstream heroes De La Soul. Even more ironic is the fact they don’t even mention WHICH song is heard on the “iPod commercial” in question, although on “Demon Days” you’ll find it’s track number six, a ditty entitled “Feel Good Inc.” Whether intentionally or not Albarn has found himself right back where he started, more recognized for a song that hawks some large corporation’s consumeristic products than for his own musical talents. When the sticker on the cover of your album says “As heard on the iPod commercial” as a selling point, it’s not a good sign. Even though Gorillaz became a sci-fi urban attitude animated escape for Albarn, his group away from his group led him right back to commercial jingles. History has a weird way of repeating itself. If you’ve heard any song by the “group” it’s probably “Clint Eastwood,” in which Del the Funky Homosapien played the role of guest MC while Albarn sang weird lyrics like “I’m useless, but not for long, the future, is coming on.” Their purpose may be inscrutable, but their blend of musical mayhem and “fuck you” hip-hop attitude has certainly made them pop culture stars in their own right. With a rotating cast of guest stars for a band fronted by cartoon book anime characters from Jamie Hewlett (you may or may not know the name thanks to “Tank Girl”), Albarn created a group simply called Gorillaz.
Perhaps because of or inspite of that success, Blur’s raison d’être Damon Albarn retreated from the pop scene into a world of musical mystery. In either case you’d be right because Blur’s “Song 2” became even more ubiquitous as a commercial jingle than it did as a pop single.
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Ring any bells? Perhaps you’re thinking of a brand new car, or maybe the Pentium chip inside a PC computer.
Yet even if you think you’ve never heard Blur, you have and you don’t even know it. In fact the odds are they’re more likely to think it implies the mental haze one associates with too much of the sticky leaf, that same leaf the U.S. Hip-Hop fans by and large would not instantly associate the word “blur” with a UK power pop band.