Gorillaz cartoon to come out in 2018

Eh, Gorillaz was always meant to be a bit of a pisstake, a commentary on how ridiculously artificial music acts can be

This is a terrible, terrible idea

No one wanted to make a movie through

Why would anyone put this much effort into trying to weave a plotline out of this random wacky LE PENGUIN OF DOOM SPORK XD material. Even the mention of trashed plotlines, alternate storylines, and shit only makes it worse.

What kind of awful people make this shit up and what kind of subhuman creatures waste their time following it and painstakingly piecing together the story from album notes, random books, and old websites?

If this was suggested after Demons Days or even Plastic Beach I'd look forward to it. They already have the music videos and G-Bites.
But considering that the singles they released for Humanz range from Preachy leftist shit (Hallelujah Money) or just crappy rap music guests, not to mention there's only one real music video. I think it'd probably please the Rick and Morty cuck crowd but wouldn't be the big hit like it should be.

It'll be a hit BECAUSE it appeals to the cuck crowd.

hipster normies

I liked the Gorillaz but how is a show about them even supposed to work? I can picture this shit turning out to be a complete mess already.

I went back and relistened to a lot of their stuff today, and other than their few big hits (Clint Eastwood, Dare, Feel Good Inc) most of their music is either really slow and moody, or it's really shitty rap from their various collaborators

When you remove the stylistic gimmick of a "virtual band" and their flimsy attempt at a storyline, you're left with a lot of really, really bad music.

Look at how fucking gay and femme they all look in the new art style. This shit reeks of [CURRENT YEAR] faggotry just lurking under the surface. Expect 2D to come out as gay and Murdock to be trans, while Noodle with be "non-binary" or something.

Blue hair looks like a damn woman while the evil one looks like some fucking twilight pretty boy.

The problem with Grolliaz is that, well they're a shitty novelty act, if you ignore the music videos and listen to their songs, they're really shit.

People only like them because of the music videos, take that away and you're left with a shitty pop rap band with a emo lead singer.

Completely agreed. Style over substance.

But he had a girlfriend.

That is what is known as a "beard" in the gay community.

fuck my life. still, at least the characters will be in 2D, I guess.

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Striking while the iron is cold.

Jughead used to have a time traveling GF too, and then look what happened to him.

The azn one really has grown up hasn't she?

Maybe that's why every album after Gorillaz has to be some real world issue concept

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This is what happens when you make a band where concept albums are a necessity rather than making concept albums based around an idea. This shit make's Blue Öyster Cult's Imaginos storyline seem straightforward.

I mean, they're certainly on the pulse of pop culture

It'd please the cuck crowd but It should a genuine show anyone who isn't a cultist would enjoy. Instead it will be some pandering bullshit or some "lol so ran dumb SPORK" shit.

I'd imagine they'd just be longer G-bitez of them doing some goofy off hour stuff. Basically Metalocalypse except less death.

The guy who leads the music side of Gorillaz is the lead singer of Blur (it's really disorienting to listen to Blur and hear 2D effectively). Reason I bring it up is Blur does the same thing. The major hits are upbeat and fairly quick (Girls and Boys, Parklife, Song 2) the rest kinda slow down and get moody.

Despite my love of really fast paced and hard music I'm ok with the few slower songs, though there are some songs that are automatic skips even on Demon days and the Self-title (Fire coming out of the monkey's head on Demon days, Gorlliaz has Double bass and Starshine).

Also the hell is with so many people saying Gorillaz as a whole is shit? I can get not liking the odd song and agree Humanz is weak sauce but everything? Jesus, not even /mu/ is being this elitist.

Except she was a crazy bitch who cheated on him. Also 2-D is characterized as not being bright.

Anyways, vid tangential but it has Noodle riding a Jaguar at the end.

what did I just watch? i had the sound off

There's a lot of 'should be's in life. They are most often said when nothing can be done to change what's happening.

>a convoluted overarching worldstory completed with personal backstories of each member for a non-existing fictional music band
but why?

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Gorillaz heavily promoted itself online back when that was a novel concept, with a weird sprawling website that was like a point-and-click adventure game with constantly changing shit to find and puzzle over. You could unlock artwork, interviews and demo versions of upcoming tracks.

Most of that convoluted story was drip-fed over the course of many fan participation events on that same website, all of which generated interest in the music and kept fans entertained between albums. I suspect a lot of it was just Jamie Hewlett getting bored and drawing wacky shit, but there you go.

A more convenient source for the character backstories etc is the book Gorillaz: Rise of the Ogre, which is basically one long parody of the music industry mixed with behind the scenes stuff on the making of the music.

It's hard not to get a Hot Topic vibe from Gorillaz sometimes. Okay, many times.

A music video, possibly the only one for Humanz. It's sad not even EMI getting broken up can get them much funding in this age.

>The guy who leads the music side of Gorillaz is the lead singer of Blur (it's really disorienting to listen to Blur and hear 2D effectively).
I like to imagine the comical dissonance between 2D's singing and speaking voices is intentional.

are their full size uploads of these things? The art is pretty cool

If anyone would come out as gay, it would be Noodle

turbo dyke asian, people will eat that up

I can't buy homos in a world where creatures as gorgeous as Betty and Veronica exist

It's just too much

If that's really the only video they were able to do, they dropped the ball even harder this time

I'd rather have scene a proper conclusion to Plastic Beach, an animated Rhinestone Eyes than that

I got them off Discogs

When you've only got one, maybe two songs out of an entire album that are memorable or remotely good, and then dozens and dozens or pretentious, slow, boring, lifeless crap that borders on "noise music" territory, it is not hard to reach the judgement that a band is bad.

Gorillaz is largely remembered and regarded fondly because the music videos, style, and singles were good. Most people don't acknowledge or even care about the rest of their discography.

Also, doesn't say much about a band when one of their songs can be infinitely improved by speeding it up a small amount and adding a decent drum track.

I don't understand their obsession with rap, hip-hop, trip-hop, and dub. In every interview Darmon and Hewlett mention that they band is all about experimentation and always venturing into new direction, and defying genres, but everything is mostly a blend of poppy light rock/electronic with some variety of rap. Empire Ants, Don't Get Lost in Heaven+Demon Days, and Fire Coming Out of a Monkey's Head are the only tracks that are really trying something different. Why didn't Gorillaz ever make anything incorporating heavy metal, folk, grunge, or classical music? Or any other genres for that matter?

Albarn probably feels he could go off brand in his many other projects

Pretty much every song with a rap centric or featured is painfully mediocre, with the obvious exceptions.
Plastic Beach had a lot of shit music but I was generally fond of the VERY FUCKING FEW tracks that featured 2D.
Demon Days had a few really good songs, 1 or 2 pretty damn good tracks, and about 6 forgettable ones. (Personal favorite: Every Planet We Reach Is Dead)
D-sides is the best, if only because it's got a consistent level of quality and no (excessive?) rap. Nothing mind blowing but it's got some sublime tracks and catchy bits.

I feel that this is the same main problem that Humanz has, the tracks doesn't really felt like Gorillaz working with different artist but more like the inverse of that.

In his 40s, he's presumably more interested in using Gorillaz to showcase other artists than himself

there is something innately disturbing to see something like this outside tumblr and asian countries , this is on par with the whole headmates thing and i'm sure it predates that too. If this the western equivalent of vocaloids then i proudly choose extinction

I would take most opinions that are skewed negatively here, or anywhere on a chan, with a grain of salt. The purpose of chans is to generally have the freedom to be as honest as possible, but a lot of people take it as an invitation to shit on and be overly negative about anything out there. Personally, I like most of the Gorillaz songs, albeit I found Humanz the weakest of the four main albums (and no The Fall doesn't count since it was more of a bonus album done an ipad during PB's tour).

I like the song you posted, maybe I have bad taste

10 years too late.
Had they made this sometime around 2003 - 2007, the whole fucking internet would've exploded.

It's that one song that after being improved by speeding it up and adding a beat. This is the original.

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Their first 2 albums were great though. After that they went really deep into hip hop. It was always present in one way or another but listening to their first record is like a whole different band. There they could have actually passed as a band with a style, now it just sounds like Damon is providing guest vocals on some benefit mixtape.

It's not that the new album was shit, it's that the entire point of Gorillaz is to throw shit on the wall and see what sticks.
There were about 7 good tracks, the rest I just didn't like and a few that were just pure shit. The rappers they got on the tracks have some of the worst vocals ever oh my god.

Then again I'm more of a Plastic Beach than Demon Days kind of guy, and this album was Demon Days 2 with 300x more rap and collabs.

I care fuck all for lore but I just want my damn music videos.

That's what they say but that's a shitty excuse, there's a Gorillaz formula and it rarely deviates from that. It's a lot like UNKLE, where it started isn't where it ended up and in my opinion it's a lot worse now. Plastic Beach is what killed it for me, if you want "experimentation" I think they peaked with Demon Days and ever since then it's been Damon Albarn's Hip Hop Project.

Wait how is Plastic Beach bad.

I don't know, it just wasn't very good? Rhinestone Eyes was good, I guess Melancholy Hill was alright but I just think the first 2 were not only more focused but had more interesting music.

The songs start off okay then a nigger with a bad voice starts ooga booga rapping midway through and I turn it off
And having "lore" for your shitty OC fake band characters is retarded as fuck

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They definitely peaked with Demon Days. As far as hiphop goes, Plastic beach had about as much of it as first record did.

Plastic Beach is a solid album, but a lot of songs got messed up during production. Take for instance, "Some Kind of Nature." It has a really grating sound in the song that hurts my ears to listen to, but without it the song would be ten times better. there's a lot of little issues like that on the album.

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I dunno, user, I think I like this better. It's just a chill song to listen to. The remix sounds a little too boring.

Yeah, and she apparently smokes, now. Bleh.

Most of what I've heard of the new album is blacks talking about oppression and shit. Yeah, they're oppressed… that's why they're being paid to sing about how bad they have it, and I'm wondering if I'll have a roof over my head next year, while I pray I don't end up with any medical problems, because I can't pay for anything.

Anyway, while I like the idea of them, I think Gorillaz has missed more than it has hit, with me, over the years.

Songs I really like: 19-2000, Tomorrow Comes Today, Feel Good Inc., DARE, El Mañana, Rhinestone Eyes, Stylo, Superfast Jellyfish, Empire Ants, On Melancholy Hill, Andromeda

Songs that are pretty decent: Clint Eastwood, Rock the House, Dirty Harry, Left Hand Suzuki Method, Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach, Glitter Freeze, Broken, Plastic Beach

Songs I can't fucking stand?
Quite a few, but Sweepstakes is the one that leaps into mind the fastest. The so-called "Current Year" shit creeping into the latest album isn't doing the new stuff any favors, either.

I agree with the general consensus, here, that this cartoon thing is about a decade too late. But maybe it could be halfway decent. Then again, maybe the people involved will be too deep up their own arses (or certain other groups') to make anything that connects with the majority of the fans.

Demon Days Noodle was best. As she gets older her Mary Sue personality stops being cute and becomes more and more obnoxious.

as opposed to what? getting wasted? getting tattoos? she's still purer than most sluts out there.

she's had a hard life, she deserves a smoke every now and then

I don't follow the lore because it's a FUCKING MUSIC BAND, so I've never noticed this

Just because there are worse things than smoking does not mean smoking is the best thing.

There's also NOT smoking.
After 40 years of living with one non-smoking and two smoking relatives, dating a smoker, I can't begin to list all of the ways in which it brings misery to everyone involved.

And, yes, that misery has marked me even to the point where I can look at a fictional, cartoon, girl with a cigarette in her mouth and say "bleh." Call it my personal preference: It doesn't affect you, so deal with it (if you can even call that 'dealing with it').

If you don't get it, you're either lucky or a smoker. In the latter case, you'll either figure it out eventually, or you'll be like my dad.

He's got COPD, wakes himself up coughing and choking, and can only seem to stay awake for about eight hours a day, during which he only has about enough energy to slump on the couch watching TV or doing Sudoku puzzles… or sitting on the deck smoking like a chimney while being deep in denial about the damage he's voluntarily paid big bucks to do to himself over his lifetime. Smoking isn't relief from a hard life, it IS a hard life.

I normally don't preach about this shit, but I don't normally have twats stopping me to say, "What's so bad about smoking, there's worse shit!"

And losing a hand is worse than losing a finger, dipshit… I don't fancy doing either one.

>>>/TRASH/

You got some problems, user, but no one gives a shit.
I hate smokers irl and I get pissed whenever I see people breaking laws just because they can't fucking wait five minutes to go somewhere else and smoke.

But fictional smokers aren't bad. They're not ruining their fictional lungs. It's fiction. It adds and aesthetic to it, anyway, depending on the character and the genre. Pic related– Bigby from Fables, back in the early part of the comic where it had a noir feel to it.
Stop sounding like one of those shitty 'Truth' commercials.

She's hyper competent at everything and is constantly outperforming the others and making them look like idiots. I think in lore she's supposed to be a cloned MK ultra super soldier or something.

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Constantine did. And he smoked a quality brand.

Ignorance is bliss.

I can look past the mistakes and still enjoy the album. It's really not that hard to understand.

But you weren't saying that. You were basically saying 'it's bad but I can see that it could've been good if they hadn't put a bunch of other shit over the tracks.'

Ignorance is Bliss.

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I don't see where you get me saying it's a solid album with some mistakes in it as saying the album is bad. All you're doing is twisting my words.

You said they ruined a potentially good song for you by putting some grating shit over it, and that it had a lot of issues like that. If an album is full of ruined songs it's not a 'solid album with some issues' it's an album with tons of wasted potential.

Plastic Beach was alright, with the acception of Sweepstakes which I skip every time, but it would have been nice if it sounded more like a Gorillaz album, and less like Damon Albarn inviting all of his friends over for a party.

Why can't Gorillaz just make songs that make sense instead of inviting all these niggers over to mumble nonsense into a mic?

for you that's the case, but I'll still consider it a good album.

nope.

sweepstakes grew on me.
it's technically supposed to the gorillaz equivalent of a villain song

Nigga you got it backwards
Normies latch onto the poppy tracks (Clint Eastwood, 19-2000 Remix, DARE) because they're more accessable, while some of the fucking genius tracks get swept under the rug because they're not immediately likeable (Sound Check - Gravity, November Has Come, Spitting Out The Demons).
Fuck, D-Sides has some blindingly good tracks, but because they're a bit out there (and it's mostly remixes) it flew under the radar. Hell, a lot of people don't even know it exists.

Maybe you've just got shitty taste, user.

So much for the "Noodle is not for sexual" thing

They're whoring her out at this point

Noodle has always been for sexual in my mind.

Too old, used goods, and smokes. I do not wanna sexual the noodle.

Since when?

So what channel is ordering this?

gross

So is the show gonna be with the versions of the band from the latest album, or the original versions?

It's only when these pics came out I didn't know she was a woman.

The only thing I like about Gorillaz is Noodle, other than that there is nothing.

Also why is there no good Noodle porn?

Really need a holocaust, here. A real one.

Didn't read.

cute

really? you thought this was a dude?

Nigga…wtf.

it still needs to be updated now that the most recent Phase is out.

eye.swfchan.com/flash.asp?id=153201&n=noodle_loop.swf

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I gotcha dude

What the fuck? The whole point of gorillaz is to send-up bullshit pop imagery. It's supposed to be nonsense and trashy. It's not supposed to be some coherent story. The idea of gorillaz lore is a fucking joke.

They long sense stopped doing that. Now they're for real just shitty incoherent trash.

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Huh. Stopped paying attention to them after the second album but I guess that makes sense. Same sort of thing that happened to neon genesis evangelion. You try to satirize shitty taste and people don't get the joke's on them, loving it so much that you just start feeding it because that's more profitable.

Isn't Hewlett feeling underappreciated the exact reason he left the first time?

Like, half of the appeal of this band is the animated band themselves. The cartoon's announcement is probably the most enjoyable thing I've heard come out of Humanz.

If that's really how he feels, then he's missing the point of the Gorillaz, imo. I buy into the mentality of 'there's this band called Gorillaz that produces this music' because it's fun, and I like hearing what this fictional band does. I'd rather not have it just be some side-project Albarn does when he wants to hang out with his hippie music friends in a studio, producing songs on his fucking iPad because 'lol, they know it's fake, who gives a fuck'.

It's kinda like the illusion of wrestling, or anything fake, really. You buy into what they're selling because it's fun, but it seems Albarn isn't interested in selling the illusion, and it's ruining the fun for me.

As an aside, most of the albums are good to listen to. I guess he just had more focus and control back then, but now he either overproduces and ruins the potential a song could have, or he doesn't give a fuck and lets a song spiral into trash.

I consider Gorillaz and Daft punk very similar; amazing first albums with good atmosphere and style and then literally everything else is fucking garbage (aside from G-Sides and one or two off of Demons Days)

Will we ever see best character return in the new series?

roight

I forgot that was even a thing.
I suppose it's likely.

Christ, if this were during demon days or hell, even plastic beach I would be making threads non-stop, I'd be so excited. But now…?

Whatever, I just hope that means more Noodle pr0n

this

anyway I've always liked Gorillaz even though the latest album seemed a bit shit due to them chasing modern production trends.

I'll check it out.

This is just miserable.

It's not that bad musically, but video is really bad. Using horrific 3D model and amateurish animation that is subpar even by Adult Swim's standards. Especially after promising to stick to 2D animation.
Are they even trying anymore, or is it just Hewlett and Albarn phoning it to make a quick buck?

It's a known fact that Damon wanted to actually make experimental music and satire, Jamie just wanted cash.

Jamie Hewlett left the first time because he felt underappreciated with what he contributed (which I'm assuming is all the lore, animation, and artwork), and I can only guess the use of these 3D models is to keep content with the band coming out instead of waiting however many months for another animated music video.

I don't have a problem with them generally because it's a cute way to make the band 'more real', but I don't want to think anyone on that creative team, least of all Hewlett, think these are good replacements for the music videos

He deserved to be underappreciated.
Any amount of appreciation for the "lore" is over appreciation, even an negative amount.

no thanks, I'd take any of these over that

chill out autismo, if you read the book, it makes sense as a satire of ridiculous dramatic band autobiographies

She got progressively edgier over the years.

sounds realistic

Fixed that for you

Not counting the current iteration, of course. Actually, looking back by teenage self never really appreciated noodle and that's really sad.

And edgier

Yeah, but edgy is offset by hotness, Like a neutralizing force.
Noodle in Dare is still the best one, though, except for cat-mask noodle. But only slightly

well, you can appreciate her now.

Yeah it's a damn shame. Like seriously it was such a great look.I don't even really remember how plastic beach ended. I mean I remember Noodle and GiantRussel heading towards the island…also there was a robot noodle for some reason…then it was basically like a Gilligan cut to everyone older and I'm just standing here wondering what the hell happened to what was looking to be some big confrontation.

Adult Noodle is kind of growing on me.

Pathetic

You're an idiot. The only people who think smoking looks cool are edgy tryhards.

Fuck off, pussy.

You know you need to be 18+ to browse here, right?

I have never once met a smoker who wasn't either, obese, Asian, or a pseudo-intellectual try hard faggot.

So you have problems distinguishing fiction from reality? Good to know you're an idiot.

Also after reading all of this –actually kind of cool– clusterfuck of a backstory I'm hoping that the cartoon will be a proper retelling of it, without having all the different forms of media breaking it up where it couldn't be properly appreciated. I mean I sure-as-shit would have liked to understand why there were two noodles for a while, or why russel was huge for platic beach while the albums were still fresh.

I remember that they were planning to have 2D "playing" other characters in the movie, that they were going to make a running joke out of that they're actors playing roles. Maybe the series will use that.

Anyway Hewlett's been down this road before, he's not the same naive creator who got bent over and violated on Tank Girl. He's done Phoo Action, the Journey To The West stage play, the animation for the Beijing Olympics, plus all the Gorillaz animation. The series ought to slay, as long as they don't go over budget hiring Bruce Fucking Willis.

He never said or implied or gave you any reason to believe he was saying or implying that.

Just what are you implying, here?

Smoking anything is shit, and anyone who still endorses it whilst acknowledging that is beyond pathetic.

Hehe. I totally agree, but no one was supposed to take my post seriously. I was just poking fun at the repetition of "implying."

Or are you implying I was trying implying something? Because if you're implying I'm implying, I'm denying implying anything.

For reiteration: I will state, with neither reservation nor hesitation, implication was not my destination. Furthermore, implication without derivation from causation is the perpetration of mental masturbation for base satiation: A schadenfreude creation -elation derived from others' frustration- a station I leave to the younger generation.

You're digging yourself deeper.

lol
Why do I get the feeling you're not sure which posts are mine and which aren't…

Androgynous as fuck though. Clearly Jamie liked it, the whole point of cyborg Noodle was just so he could have legal Noodle and jailbait Noodle at the same time (have his cake and eat it too)
Didn't you see the Rhinestone eyes animatic? That was the "ending" or as close as there ever was

dude could not make up his mind over what hair color he wanted for Noodle.

Also that Dirty Harry pic is lewd as fuck without actually being all that risque

Alright, that answers a few things, actually. Also I kind of like TeenNoodle's androgynous look. But, to be fair I think it has a great deal to do with the artstyle and knowing it's noodle beforehand. No confusion to muddle up the swaying hips and the appreciation of them.

Posing can do wonders, man. I forget where it was I read it, but I recall something about clothing making things even more lewd.

No IDs. Every post could be yours, or mine. What you say doesn't matter, on that fact.

I like it

Stop samefagging and pretending you're not the same whiner before.
You did imply that you can't differentiate fiction from reality. What I said before was:

If you can't fucking differentiate between fiction and reality and can't even appreciate the aesthetic of a gruff man smoking a cigarette on a rainy day, you're just an underage faggot who's watched too many Truth commercials.

reminder

what are you telling me, user?
was the gorillaz originally supposed to have a gorilla?

Not an argument.

was the gorillaz originally supposed to have a second gorilla?*
FTFY

But everything else I said was. Stop bitching and go back to 4ch

Still not an argument.
Didn't say that. Not everyone who disagrees with you is the same fag.

Probably the fact that there was someone beforehand that held noodle's spot, and that current noodle looks suspiciously like her.

The only point I was making was that real smokers and fictional smokers are different and smoking in fiction can bring a certain aesthetic. If you disagree and bitch that I love smoking then, then you can't differentiate between fiction and reality.

So they just turned Noodle into Tank Girl?

Your argument is not for me. You are replying to the wrong poster.