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The Bizarre Lore of Gorillaz

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Gorillaz is one of the biggest names in music, and also one of the most complicated! Across almost 30 years, it's had plenty of nonsense slammed into a somehow coherent story that I spend a decent chunk of time nitpicking and solving! Tubular!

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0:00 Phase Zero - Origins
6:23 Phase One - Gorillaz
15:47 Phase Two - Demon Days
25:04 Phase Three - Plastic Beach
37:30 Phase Four/Five - Humanz/The Now Now
47:26 Phase Six/Seven - Song Machine/Cracker Island
55:35 Phase Eight - The Mountain and What Comes Next

Music Used In Order:
~Smog City (Spark the Electric Jester)
~Jubilife City (Pokemon Diamond and Pearl)
~More London Streets (Professor Layton)
~Iris (Professor Layton)
~Betilla the Fairy (Rayman
~Theme of the Celestials (Okami)
~World 1 (Yoshi’s Wooly World)
~Wario City (Mario Super Sluggers)
~Menu (Mario vs Donkey Kong)
~Castelia City (Pokemon Black and White)
~Clock Tower (MvC 2)
~Moonview Highway (Mario Kart Wii)
~Toad Harbor (Mario Kart 8)
~Factory Stage (MvC 2)
~Happy Mambo (Kirby’s Return to Dreamland)
~Chapter 1 Menu (Super Meat Boy)
~Gloomy Manor (Luigi’s Mansion)
~Aces High (If you’re reading this you know what it’s from)
~Blossom Haze (Sonic Mania)
~Exercise Period (The Escapists)
~Land of the Livid Dead (Rayman Legends)
~Droid Void (Wrath of Cortex)
~Tortimer Island (New Leaf)
~Planet Earthfall (Kirby Star Allies)
~Join us 4 a Happy Time (Sonic Adventure)
~Dragonfly Falls (A Hero’s Tail)
~Tidal Tempest (Sonic CD)
~Battle for Storm Hill (DK Jungle Beat)
~Ballad of the Burning Squirrel (Super Meat Boy)
~Tech Elemental (Skylanders Giants)
~Lobby (BattleBlock Theater)

PHASE FOUR AND ONWARD

~Sewer Battle (Mewgenics)
~Training (Timesplitters)
~Tranquility Falls (Crash 4)
~Shy Guy Beach (Mario Kart Wii)
~Battle (Raft Wars)
~Monkey Billards (Super Monkey Ball)
~Golf (Wii Sports)
~Cave (Pokemon Snap)
~Jungle Death Route (Crash N Sane Trilogy)
~Creep Blue (Wario Land Shake It)
~Flower Town (Garden Grace)
~January 2015 Eshop
~Investigation Opening (why did I label this mp3 file this)
~Midnight Owl (Sonic Lost World)
~Arctic Monkey (Super Monkey Ball 2)
~Greeting (Rhythm Heaven Fever)
~Boss Battle 1 (SSBB)
~Forest Interlude (Donkey Kong Country)
~Goemotti Forest (Xenoblade 2)
~Planet Earthfall (Star Allies)
~Mii Maker (Tomodachi Life)
~Title (Chameleon Twist 2)
(Outro) White Wing Dynablade

The Bizarre Lore of Gorillaz

#gorillaz #lore #fortnite

20 Comments

@therealchoopo Creator 2 months ago (edited) Pinned

Fellas I hope you enjoyed this one, it was a delight and challenge to make, but I’m glad it’s here! You find more of me here:

https://linktr.ee/therealchoopo

I’ve always been a bit hesitant talking about franchises with a bit more maturity to them, but I hope this is received well and I get the chance to cover some more cool stuff in the future!

@reeves3499 2 months ago

I am evil gorilaz and i DONT have sunshine in a bag

@bermuda2163 2 months ago

Describing Murdoch as the worst of all the Beatles in one person is hilarious and says so much for people who don't know the lore

@ThomasWeaver1992 2 months ago

Do not underestimate how influential edgy 2000s flash animations have been to the culture of the present day.

@BROTHEROFPANGO 2 months ago

I would make a Gorillaz reference, but I just realized you're talking about the band and not the animal.

@johnwerner69 2 months ago

It’s such a shame that the Netflix deal never got made because the lore is so fun

@tykamen5588 2 months ago (edited)

Calling Gorillaz's lore bizarre is an understatement.

@poweroffriendship2.0 2 months ago

Ace of the Gangrene Gang joined the Gorillaz for a while is even funnier considering that Jamie Hewlett is friends with Craig McCracken, which explained the crossovers. Heck! Even PPG has already referenced Gorillaz before, at least in the PPG Movie where Mojo read a newspaper with the ad of the Gorillaz concert.

@Crabgar 2 months ago

Damon and Jamie used to fight a lot over the music getting more attention than the story and videos, to the point of almost splitting up multiple times. It's really tragic how so many creative differences, label fuck ups and sales influenced the story and integrity of the band. Like all the collabs and advertising would've been something Demon Days Gorrilaz criticised, but I'd rather see more Gorrilaz than not. Damon made a lot of music outside of Gorrilaz, the man lives music and won't stop until he's dead, so it really is more about Jamie getting the funding. Really wished that Netflix movie happened, but honestly considering how Netflix is, it was probably for the better.

@fiskkrok 2 months ago

your oc brian is really cool. i think you are very creative, Choopo

@biggreen1456 2 months ago

Notice how he’s talking about Gorillas instead of Chimps. The people yearn for Space Chimps

@keithpidgeon2815 2 months ago

2:30 Murdoc started out as yellow, but then his skin gradually turned greener either for his deal with the devil or because he went tanning in LA.

@YoshisVinyl 1 month ago

Gorillaz is really accurate because in the lore the bassist is the villain.

@chunta957 1 month ago (edited)

Love how choppo must tell the story in STRICT chronological order

So we're getting a backstory that will become relevant in arc that is going to be in about an hour of the video

@obiwankenoby3454 2 months ago

5:24 with how gorillaz lore is name and their names, i really thought for a second, "wow what a really weird name : Mr Dontyellatmeifigetthenamewrong"

@nprnilk 2 months ago

Funny thing about the Book of M.A.N. is that it originally also stated that Murdoc is immortal and existed in every single moment in time. Including being the accidental cause of the London Fire. Although plans for it couldn't go much further due to budgetary reasons and many say it was probably retconned. HOWEVER, considering the fact Murdoc was abandoned and left on his dad's doorstep: What if that wasn't his mom? And what if it connects to the Forever Cult's search for immortality storyline? Idk could be funny.

@DRLT0101 2 months ago

MR MAGGITS HAS BEEN FOUND DEAD IN THE BRONX

@Mr.KMadLad 2 months ago

Ts about to be real good (inc.)

@PaladinLuke 2 months ago

I'm amused by choopo's opinion on Murdoc shifting from "oh no poor baby 🥺🥺🥺" to "that's it, bring in the firing squad" over the course of the video

@DerrickJohnson-t8r 2 months ago

12:34 I just believe that Murdoch is too lazy to write his own music videos so he just makes music videos that things that happened to him. That’s how they got that footage.