Gorillaz - Empire Ants ft. Little Dragon (Official Video)

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  • Опубліковано 14 гру 2010
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    Official music video for the Gorillaz track 'Empire Ants' featuring Little Dragon.

КОМЕНТАРІ • 7 тис.

  • @Gordelafication
    @Gordelafication 10 років тому +12237

    After many many years, people will listen to this song and feel envious for ones who lived in the era of Gorillaz.

  • @ikerina
    @ikerina Рік тому +822

    2:15 When this part starts.... I start floating

  • @edgy_insanity_krisps2848
    @edgy_insanity_krisps2848 6 місяців тому +306

    0:00 - 2:20 oh this is so calm i really love this soft rythm
    2:24: H E R E ' S A B A N G E R

    • @joserx_loli4267
      @joserx_loli4267 4 місяці тому +7

      fr, I heard it in an edit and I was like, I need to listen to this song!

    • @user-yk1wj6qg6y
      @user-yk1wj6qg6y 21 день тому

      Joserx time to listen to the whole band😊

  • @willlima9246
    @willlima9246 3 роки тому +1101

    This sounds like rain.

    • @Dmytro_Podorvan
      @Dmytro_Podorvan 3 роки тому +14

      you are so right

    • @yougotnojams6784
      @yougotnojams6784 3 роки тому +23

      Sounds more like sunset to me

    • @aifatsuki
      @aifatsuki 3 роки тому +10

      this sounds like sadness to me.

    • @yougotnojams6784
      @yougotnojams6784 3 роки тому +8

      @@aifatsuki for me sounds like happiness, i dont know why

    • @avalonerios
      @avalonerios 3 роки тому +2

      hi ! here a new track from Argentina, some kind of electropop ua-cam.com/video/gKk8z1u-IhI/v-deo.html

  • @AH-mq2zu
    @AH-mq2zu 7 років тому +2585

    Depressing and Calming at the same time, my fucking kind of music

  • @DaFuqBoom
    @DaFuqBoom 6 років тому +7344

    This now became one of my favourites from Gorillaz.

  • @disc_poser
    @disc_poser Рік тому +62

    The lyrics:
    Oh joy's arise
    The sun has come again to hold you
    Sailing out the doldrums of the whole week
    The polyphonic prairies here, it's all around you
    It's all around you, out here
    And if the whole world is crashing down
    Fall through space out of mind again
    Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
    Blows all the shadows far away
    The falling alcohol empire, is here to hold you
    Rolling out and haunted 'til it sleeps
    Little memories, marching on
    Your little feet, working the machine
    Will it spin, will it soar
    My little dream, working the machine
    Soon like a wave that pass will fall
    And closing in on you they're going on
    Little memories
    Your little feet, working the machine
    Will it spin, will it soar
    My little dream, working the machine
    Soon like a wave that pass will fall
    And closing in on you they're going on

  • @tryingtodobetter7509
    @tryingtodobetter7509 3 роки тому +1146

    I genuinely cannot tell anyone how much I love this song. It gives me everything I need to feel safe. I want this song to play in my afterlife, because that's the vibe it gives me. I love this album, literally everything on it is great

    • @avalonerios
      @avalonerios 3 роки тому +1

      hi !! here a new track from Argentina, some kind of electropop ua-cam.com/video/gKk8z1u-IhI/v-deo.html

    • @rahe2141
      @rahe2141 2 роки тому +6

      Underappreciated album in gorillaz discography

    • @JobColman
      @JobColman Рік тому +1

      it remembers me, my little bike that took me to so many places "little memories" of me riding it and better times, the fun i had and the happiness i had that little bike was stolen from me. its a song that heals me.

    • @shyhexx
      @shyhexx 10 місяців тому +6

      @@rahe2141what are you talking about, plastic beach is like their second most critically acclaimed album after demon days, it’s amazing but not underappreciated

  • @sarahichavez382
    @sarahichavez382 4 роки тому +1614

    Verse 1: 2-D]
    Oh, joys arise
    The sun has come again to hold you
    Sailing out the doldrums of the week
    The polyphonic prayer is here, it's all around you
    It's all around you, out here
    [Bridge: 2-D]
    And if the whole world is crashing down (on you)
    Fall through space out of mind with me
    [Verse 2: 2-D]
    Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
    Blows all the shadows far away
    The falling of the whole empire, is here to hold you
    Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps
    [Hook: Yukimi Nagano]
    Little memories, marching on
    Your little feet, working the machines
    Say will it spin, will it soar
    My little dream, working the machine
    Soon like a wave
    Empires will fall
    And closing in on you
    They're going on
    Little memories
    Your little feet, working the machines
    Say will it spin, will it soar
    My little dream, working the machine
    Soon like a wave
    Empires will fall
    Closing in on you
    They're going on

  • @elisebrabyn6169
    @elisebrabyn6169 7 років тому +2975

    I feel like I could float away from the world listening to this

    • @somanhamid3406
      @somanhamid3406 7 років тому +26

      shoot some heroin while doing this, magical

    • @eeeeeeeeee
      @eeeeeeeeee 7 років тому +15

      Soman Hamid Don't use heroin, it's full of good drugs out there

    • @harrylong2796
      @harrylong2796 7 років тому +32

      I feel like i do Little Dragon's voice is pretty hypnotic

    • @leoncraig5388
      @leoncraig5388 7 років тому +13

      weed is better for this type of song

    • @digitalfoxgaming1152
      @digitalfoxgaming1152 7 років тому +1

      Agreed ma'dude ; )

  • @christopherjones8096
    @christopherjones8096 2 роки тому +75

    This entire album was so ahead of its time

  • @auliahakim8561
    @auliahakim8561 3 роки тому +475

    This song made me felt something unexplainable, nostalgia of unexisting time and place. i've heard this, but so far down the memory lane. Not quite close, always outta reach. Pain ? No, its a faint feeling of sadness from a past i never knew i posess. Why, is it just me. How ?

    • @ara289
      @ara289 3 роки тому +12

      I feel the same...

    • @thomasmartin7524
      @thomasmartin7524 2 роки тому +1

      @Ivan the werewolf Sweet rubbish. You life once. Now. That‘s all.

    • @anhedoniaaa
      @anhedoniaaa 2 роки тому +2

      Same here 😕

    • @WormsSoupYum
      @WormsSoupYum 2 роки тому +3

      same

    • @MartySnowdog
      @MartySnowdog 2 роки тому +4

      I think that place exists only in your dreams, that song is just a key to your soul.

  • @astrathousand4590
    @astrathousand4590 4 роки тому +3742

    The question is....
    *HOW COULD MURDOC WRITE SUCH AN SAD SONG*

  • @marial8672
    @marial8672 9 років тому +2792

    Little dragon's part it's like mermaids singing to you if you're high

    • @victor_dhr
      @victor_dhr 9 років тому +25

      100% agreed

    • @MrLCGO
      @MrLCGO 9 років тому +55

      Heck, I think so eventhough I'm not high

    • @seawaif
      @seawaif 9 років тому +22

      You know this from experience?

    • @marial8672
      @marial8672 9 років тому +30

      Yeah, I know this from experience

    • @jesusgarcias4308
      @jesusgarcias4308 9 років тому +1

      ***** Ola

  • @kaheelee9692
    @kaheelee9692 2 роки тому +357

    This song makes me feel things no human ever could. Thank you, Gorillaz.

  • @estebanlima5014
    @estebanlima5014 3 роки тому +244

    I feel sorry for the people who’s never had heard this in their life.

  • @Pangooooo
    @Pangooooo 4 роки тому +741

    The feeling that Murdoc had wrote this makes me think of life

    • @chloe6947
      @chloe6947 3 роки тому +43

      Noodle: *creates Plastic Beach*
      "Hey guys look what I made"
      Murdoc: "WE made"
      ...or was it Demon Days?

    • @ireki4017
      @ireki4017 3 роки тому +26

      @@chloe6947 demon days

    • @RecklessBucket2
      @RecklessBucket2 3 роки тому +9

      @@chloe6947 it was Demon Dayz,

    • @brandonwright9969
      @brandonwright9969 3 роки тому +14

      @@RecklessBucket2canonically speaking, noodle wrote demon days

    • @alphalax7747
      @alphalax7747 3 роки тому

      What

  • @koalaforge4665
    @koalaforge4665 10 років тому +804

    This song will play at my funeral. I'll make sure of it.

    • @teeiju6942
      @teeiju6942 10 років тому +229

      Ha, a funeral that's nothing, this will play at my resurrection.

    • @grayleg414
      @grayleg414 9 років тому +31

      Teeiju Ha, a resurrection is nothing. I'll play this at my immortality party.

    • @skotiskiller
      @skotiskiller 9 років тому +1

      ***** Not all the quotes are catchy...

    • @angusd2288
      @angusd2288 9 років тому +12

      i want to agree with you... but 'On Melancholy hill' is the song for me!!

    • @TomNopleaseno
      @TomNopleaseno 9 років тому +5

      I love you, i am doing this too...

  • @SuperSlimshady1995
    @SuperSlimshady1995 Рік тому +218

    It's crazy how I completely overlooked this album when it first came out. Now, 12 years later, I am really starting to understand it's real meaning. This song is a real masterpiece, I have listened to it 1000 times and it still manages to make tears come out of my eyes!

    • @leonfowler1
      @leonfowler1 Рік тому

      Yeah same here. How did I not get in to this sooner. The album is so good.

  • @kikkerslikker4533
    @kikkerslikker4533 3 роки тому +881

    it is MY mental breakdown and I get to choose the music.

    • @jossartsz6570
      @jossartsz6570 3 роки тому +12

      Y e s

    • @tblmoon
      @tblmoon 3 роки тому +5

      Y e s

    • @kikkerslikker4533
      @kikkerslikker4533 3 роки тому +6

      @@tblmoon forgot I ever made this comment but I guess people are still reacting

    • @alexandrosdrosos5915
      @alexandrosdrosos5915 3 роки тому +3

      Y e s

    • @aantiidotee236
      @aantiidotee236 3 роки тому

      Sorry but it's a fake-depressed girl comment. Obviously its a generalized opinnion. I don't know you, you don't know me

  • @ramabranch
    @ramabranch 7 років тому +1335

    I visited Hong Kong two years ago and I remember listening to this on the bus that goes up Victoria's Peak and just feeling it was the perfect soundtrack for that moment, with the view of the city full of buildings and skyscrapers. It just made me feel so small and lost in that sea of people and neon.

    • @anihlurosales2157
      @anihlurosales2157 5 років тому +9

      Rama Branch esos momentos que uno vive con un buen. Recuerdo de una bella melodía

    • @setablaze1802
      @setablaze1802 5 років тому +24

      You should listen to their song Hong Kong. It gives off the same vibe

    • @Peacefully-Happy-86
      @Peacefully-Happy-86 5 років тому +4

      Sounds like a great moment 👍🏻

    • @WiredHeart2040
      @WiredHeart2040 5 років тому +1

      Rama Branch ♡

    • @orpheus9098
      @orpheus9098 5 років тому +1

      That image… it's BEAUTIFUL

  • @TheMirella7
    @TheMirella7 8 років тому +3007

    This song has a better feel to it when you play it really loud at home and dance to it , trust me .

  • @stxrliv
    @stxrliv 3 місяці тому +27

    when i was about 11 or 12, i was given a non-graded assignment in school to present a song to the class and talk about it for a few minutes. i chose this song. i loved empire ants SO MUCH back then and to this day i still love it so much. all my classmates watching me present looked so confused and uninterested as they didn't know this song and thought i presented something "weird" or "obscure". even my music teacher looked unamused? i do NOT regret it though. everyone else brought in mainstream music of the time (2016/17) whilst i introduced all these kids to a BANGER. i hope they're all listening to gorillaz now. kinda random but thought i'd share this anyway :)

    • @bradleyplummer9716
      @bradleyplummer9716 3 місяці тому +2

      this dude is nuts donut listen to the person so wack what the actual, deez nutz got em, when ... when did i ask. I didnt ask for dis infomatishion tanks.

  • @edelleaa
    @edelleaa Рік тому +112

    this song is not only still amazing but it also introduced me to little dragon so i'm forever grateful

    • @NuaSOU
      @NuaSOU Рік тому +2

      same here

  • @hades04sagitario
    @hades04sagitario 7 років тому +513

    Oh joy's arise
    The sun has come again to hold you
    Sailing out the doldrums of the week
    The polyphonic prairies here,
    It's all around you
    It's all around you out here
    And if the whole world is crashing down on you
    Fall through space out of mind with me
    Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
    Blows all the shadows far away
    The falling of the whole empire is here to hold you
    Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps
    Little memories marching on
    Your little feet working the machine
    Say will it spin, will it soar
    My little dream working the machine
    Soon like a wave that pass will fall
    And closing in on you they're going on
    Little memories
    Your little feet working the machine
    Say will it spin, will it soar
    My little dream working the machine
    Soon like a wave that pass will fall
    And closing in on you they're going on

  • @ztrike4402
    @ztrike4402 4 роки тому +775

    [2D:]
    Oh joy's arise
    The sun has come again to hold you
    Sailing out the doldrums of the week
    The polyphonic prayer is here,
    It's all around you
    It's all around you out here
    And if the whole world is crashing down
    Fall through space out of mind with me
    Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
    Blows all the shadows far away
    The falling of the whole empire is here to hold you
    Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps
    [Little Dragon:]
    Little memories marching on
    Your little feet working the machine
    Will it spin, will it soar?
    My little dream working the machine
    Soon like a wave, empires will fall
    And closing in on the womb, of who you are
    Little memories (memories, memories, memories)
    Your little feet working the machine
    Will it spin, will it soar?
    My little dream working the machine
    Soon like a wave, empires will fall
    And closing in on the womb, of who you are

    • @matheustimoteo8384
      @matheustimoteo8384 3 роки тому +6

      I thought it was "soon like a wave, in plastic fall"

    • @st4g095
      @st4g095 3 роки тому +4

      At first I thought Noodle was the one doing the “Little Memories.” Part

    • @st4g095
      @st4g095 3 роки тому +1

      tyubmX Ah I get it now

    • @onceonly1111
      @onceonly1111 3 роки тому +7

      @@matheustimoteo8384 I heard 'Soul like a wave in plastic fog, closing in on the moon; at who you are.' - But if I read along with OP I can't hear it any other way than what they've written.

    • @Galacsia
      @Galacsia 3 роки тому +1

      On live versions she sings "closing in on my...". I can't figure out exactly what the lyrics are.

  • @joseluisusmeospina9929
    @joseluisusmeospina9929 2 роки тому +998

    Casi 11 años de esta canción. Yo no la conocí en su momento, la habre escuchado algunos años despues de su lanzamiento.
    Pero en todo caso es, y probablemente, siempre será, una de mis canciones favoritas de todos los tiempos.

    • @daaanteee
      @daaanteee 2 роки тому +24

      yo también soy un fan latino que ama esta canción, un abrazo desde Chile hermano

    • @joseluisusmeospina9929
      @joseluisusmeospina9929 2 роки тому +9

      @@daaanteee saludos desde Colombia, brother.

    • @manuelferreira400
      @manuelferreira400 2 роки тому +7

      En efecto, saludos desde méxico

    • @alex.g511
      @alex.g511 2 роки тому +21

      Hace mucho escuchaba Gorillaz, pero no me consideraba fanático ni le había puesto atención a sus álbumes por completo. Hace como 3 años me dio curiosidad y escuché Plastic Beach de inicio a fin, y verdaderamente me resultó una obra maestra, especialmente esta canción, me da una calma increíble...

    • @dvrkrox
      @dvrkrox 2 роки тому +5

      @@daaanteee buena wn tambien soy chileno

  • @sergiojoelpiscoperez8533
    @sergiojoelpiscoperez8533 3 роки тому +1623

    I pressed play, I started singing. Slowly I closed my eyes as I kept singing and when everything exploded ( 2:21 ) I just couldn't stop crying. I had no reason, I didn't think of anything, I just sang with my eyes closed. Or... Maybe... remembering my mom... she died of covid. This song is my whole life. Listening in 2021

    • @geom3011
      @geom3011 3 роки тому +77

      I'm really sorry to hear that... I hope you're doing okay now, though.

    • @youravaragelowtierpilot.8099
      @youravaragelowtierpilot.8099 3 роки тому +6

      ∠(´д`)

    • @marty.mcflux
      @marty.mcflux 3 роки тому +21

      It also makes me cry for no reason. Love to you sergio.

    • @escobart69420
      @escobart69420 3 роки тому +23

      i get the same feeling, i hope u are doing better now m8, my best friend passed away too and we loved gorillaz, life is fucked up sometimes

    • @hugofirebeast1216
      @hugofirebeast1216 3 роки тому +6

      I'm very sorry for that loss. forces bro.

  • @mr_xd5322
    @mr_xd5322 4 роки тому +648

    *_I went to the museum and nowhere did I see this work of art._*

    • @kasio7993
      @kasio7993 4 роки тому +9

      I'm gonna steal this comment

    • @indigodingo96
      @indigodingo96 4 роки тому +3

      Im keeping that one in my back pocket!

    • @elaxiber8333
      @elaxiber8333 3 роки тому +4

      No but song aside (which ik is what you meant), the artwork for this is incredible

    • @c.l.m.c.3328
      @c.l.m.c.3328 3 роки тому

      @@elaxiber8333 fr, why doesn't Jamie Hewlett have a permanent wing of some British museum by now.

  • @willowayoubi5659
    @willowayoubi5659 4 роки тому +3672

    Listening to this makes me cry every time. It was the song I sung to my cat the day before he died. I just remember singing it to him, with the dull ache in my heart. I didn't know it was his last full day on earth, but I felt it coming. I will always miss him.

    • @whatthefrick9380
      @whatthefrick9380 4 роки тому +44

      Beautiful

    • @duckmcduckington9322
      @duckmcduckington9322 4 роки тому +29

      He would of loved that x

    • @sheepishwolf
      @sheepishwolf 4 роки тому +64

      I know what it's like. And this was a beautiful act. Animals are also living beings. My parents didn't understand all the time i spent beside my ill kitten, at the last Christmas night.

    • @merytheroadie
      @merytheroadie 4 роки тому +5

      Beautiful. He was very loved ❤️

    • @bautistalosada738
      @bautistalosada738 4 роки тому +4

      me too

  • @sympathizeq
    @sympathizeq 2 місяці тому +8

    i love the way they went for a storyboard-like video instead of regular animation for this music video

    • @GISLJJ
      @GISLJJ Місяць тому

      there was supposed to be a music video, but im pretty sure it was cancelled because of budgeting issues

  • @tenjonashi
    @tenjonashi Рік тому +18

    Just to think theres someone out there listening to this, trapped in their own bubble, their own spaces and floating in their own ocean.

  • @Riddleweaver
    @Riddleweaver 8 років тому +130

    And if the whole world is crashing down on you
    Fall through space out of mind with me
    Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
    Blows all the shadows far away

    • @dolleee
      @dolleee 8 років тому +2

      Sooooo gooood 💕

    • @ShadowWolfIsTheGOAT
      @ShadowWolfIsTheGOAT 7 років тому

      Any like minded people actually want to do this with me?

  • @fockx5228
    @fockx5228 4 роки тому +3652

    someone is still listening to this beautiful piece in 2022

  • @paulforsstrom3916
    @paulforsstrom3916 3 роки тому +51

    After 10 years im still listening to this

  • @summer-gazer
    @summer-gazer Рік тому +59

    I dont think i'll ever get bored of this song

    • @aidasantos9495
      @aidasantos9495 Рік тому +1

      Same. Makes you question your life and decisions.

  • @elbeto191291
    @elbeto191291 5 років тому +230

    How is Damon able to first make you relax and forget all your troubles (The polyphonic praire's here) to the point of wanting to take a nap, and afterwards make you sway slightly to the sides with the second part of the song. Just amazing. What an awesome album Plastic Beach is.

  • @thomasmartin7524
    @thomasmartin7524 2 роки тому +12

    10 years…
    I‘m getting old.

  • @goosiegoose2005
    @goosiegoose2005 3 роки тому +38

    This is like if a loving mother was a song... Does that make sense?

    • @anhedoniaaa
      @anhedoniaaa 2 роки тому +1

      Yesss so fckin truee mann

  • @franciscopereira-io9rl
    @franciscopereira-io9rl 6 років тому +762

    There's nothing quite like this right? I love Gorillaz, every song tells it's story, but this... This is just something that no words could ever describe how perfect it is. This song will be the closest thing we will ever get to perfection. From the second that it starts to the last, I just vanish from the world, and all my problems and thoughts become meaningless. I guess what I'm trying to say is that... This is a masterpiece. Forever, my favorite song.

    • @lillhogge6369
      @lillhogge6369 5 років тому +15

      Im just commenting to make you listen to it again. Because please do. Its wonderfull

    • @franciscopereira-io9rl
      @franciscopereira-io9rl 4 роки тому +6

      Lillhogge I listen this song LITERALLY everyday! But thanks, can’t get enough of this song ahaha

    • @zachbladen
      @zachbladen 4 роки тому +2

      Hong Kong on D sides is like that too

    • @yanzinbeckham5335
      @yanzinbeckham5335 4 роки тому

      Amen.

    • @jojowestwood444
      @jojowestwood444 4 роки тому

      Amen

  • @genemallory9497
    @genemallory9497 8 років тому +95

    I like to listen to this lying down. it makes me feel both weightless and heavy...like I'm going to float straight up, through the ceiling and like I'm going to fall straight through my mattress and the ground. and I don't have to be high either....beautiful feeling.

    • @genemallory9497
      @genemallory9497 8 років тому

      ***** Oh thank god for that. I was worried in case people thought i sounded crazy or something. Glad to know there is someone else who knows what im talking about!

    • @99superjesus
      @99superjesus 8 років тому

      +Iona Surtees well i got you but you just sounded pretentious, not crazy.

    • @genemallory9497
      @genemallory9497 8 років тому

      99superjesus huh? Well everyone is entitled to an opinion. I didn't mean to sound pretentious.

  • @daaanteee
    @daaanteee 3 роки тому +85

    *Hands down, one of Gorillaz' best songs ever, simply beautiful...*

  • @neville2987
    @neville2987 3 роки тому +63

    I cried to this song, it felt like i was on a space ship leaving this dog shit world travelling the universe at light speed

  • @kajag5232
    @kajag5232 8 років тому +2384

    This genuinely is good music.

    • @cninh4574
      @cninh4574 7 років тому +46

      You're saying that like its some kind of surprise?

    • @kajag5232
      @kajag5232 7 років тому +56

      Nicholas Chinn Considering the amount of people who consider bad music as good, then, yes, because you don't find music like this every day.

    • @cninh4574
      @cninh4574 7 років тому +70

      But are you surprised to find that Gorillaz have good music?

    • @kajag5232
      @kajag5232 7 років тому +109

      Nicholas Chinn Not really. They always had good music.

    • @nitaemilia8093
      @nitaemilia8093 7 років тому +1

      Kaja g

  • @andromedalol
    @andromedalol 3 роки тому +2578

    ya ever listen to this, go to the couch or lie on the bed then
    ᵈ ᶦ ˢ ˢ ᵒ ᶜ ᶦ ᵃ ᵗ ᵉ

    • @princessofnovoselic3999
      @princessofnovoselic3999 3 роки тому +22

      Yes. Its wack and amazing at the same time

    • @garfield5983
      @garfield5983 3 роки тому +24

      Guess what buddy, I'm doing that right now

    • @garfield5983
      @garfield5983 3 роки тому +14

      And is comfy

    • @76industries19
      @76industries19 3 роки тому +43

      Dissociating and zoning out is not the same pls stop using serious terms for not so serious states

    • @princessofnovoselic3999
      @princessofnovoselic3999 3 роки тому +6

      76 Industries Ah I see. Sorry and thanks for the reminder

  • @yellowduck6035
    @yellowduck6035 3 роки тому +30

    This Music video feels like a farewell to Plastik Beach album. Its like they sat together on the end of working, and just compiled every concept and scene and sketch to each song and put it here, its so nostalgic..

  • @AB-wq2vy
    @AB-wq2vy Рік тому +14

    I've overlooked this gem for years. Previously Stylo was my favorite from this album. But Im glad I found this now, such a good song.

  • @yosoybalta
    @yosoybalta 8 років тому +1353

    this is my favorite song from that album and I just find that has a video.

    • @shooshooshooshooshooter
      @shooshooshooshooshooter 7 років тому +21

      same. Was telling my gf about it then found it has a video after listening to it for 6 years

    • @freezeflamegalaxy
      @freezeflamegalaxy 7 років тому +36

      I think Melancholy Hill is the best, not just of the album, but in all of Gorillaz.

    • @dont-feed-ben4833
      @dont-feed-ben4833 7 років тому +1

      Exact same position.

    • @sandrobarcellos9441
      @sandrobarcellos9441 7 років тому +2

      Baltazar Zuñiga Cervantes

    • @90wd
      @90wd 7 років тому +1

      Baltazar Zuñiga Cervantes tell me me more

  • @keith.8964
    @keith.8964 3 роки тому +892

    This video is blocked in America for some reason so I had to use a VPN to watch this. No regrets. Beautiful.

    • @elnamekuseyin2678
      @elnamekuseyin2678 3 роки тому +59

      What? Of the entire continent? :O

    • @jondot.fullstop
      @jondot.fullstop 3 роки тому +8

      Dumb

    • @mithzzz
      @mithzzz 3 роки тому +123

      But here in México, wich is part of America, this isn't blocked 🐢

    • @cuentrofds
      @cuentrofds 3 роки тому +12

      @maripicelli achei um br kkkkk

    • @Mr_Leo_DS
      @Mr_Leo_DS 3 роки тому +10

      @@cuentrofds achei dois

  • @izizizzyiziz
    @izizizzyiziz 2 роки тому +23

    My mom used to always listen to this, and I didn’t have a clue that it was made by Gorillaz and I’m obsessed with this song now

  • @PERSONA4GOLDENN
    @PERSONA4GOLDENN Рік тому +30

    No matter how old a Gorillaz song is, it's still a masterpiece

  • @ljafrain
    @ljafrain 3 роки тому +720

    A special, special song. This touches my soul on so many levels. A masterpiece that I'm happy to call one of my all time favourites and I cant wait to sing it as a lullaby to my future kids.

    • @chrisdavidson9094
      @chrisdavidson9094 3 роки тому +13

      Probably the most calmest gorillaz song ;)

    • @avalonerios
      @avalonerios 3 роки тому

      hi !! here a new track from Argentina, some kind of electropop ua-cam.com/video/gKk8z1u-IhI/v-deo.html

  • @phoenix94eternitythebest98
    @phoenix94eternitythebest98 9 років тому +463

    in this song Noodle is suffering because of the existence of cyborg Noodle. Indeed cyborg noodle is a "being" ruthless and able only to follow orders. This reminds Noodle the terrible past she lived when she was a child, the past about the project of the supersoldiers .....with cyborg Noodle it is as if Noodle's terrible past returns to the present. The machine may be cyborg noodle and/or the entire system of the world, that now is like a big machine. The little dream is Noodle's dream of a purer world and of a simpler life (remind the windmill). The collapsing empire is the actual world, where everyone have to work as they are machines (like the ants) and are included in rigid schemes (even mood schemes). The ones who refuse the schemes and live with different ideas (me included, haha ^^; ) are always easily targeted by the world (the empire). I think so ^^

    • @phoenix94eternitythebest98
      @phoenix94eternitythebest98 9 років тому +1

      ***** oh, thank you (*^^*);

    • @Mario-vt2dy
      @Mario-vt2dy 9 років тому +30

      Matteo Di Carlo
      The song's about the everyday person (the ants of the title), but a cog in the machinery of society("Your little feet working the machine"), who uses music("polyphonic prairies") as escapism. The first part, that 2D (Albarn) sings, describes how even as the world falls apart around us, music allows us to float away and above the disaster; the second part, sung by Noodle (or Little Dragon, however you want to see it), talks about how we trudge through societies obligations and niceties, using our personal dreams as motivation to keep going ("Little dreams,working the machine"), hoping either to make them come true, or to move society forward, instead of just letting it idle in place ("Will it spin? Will it soar?")
      Oh, joys arise, the sun has come again to hold you
      -The happiness that morning brings when something happens you expect.
      Sailing out the doldrums of the morning
      -Going through the morning calmly.
      The polyphonic prayer is here, it's all around you
      It's all around you out here
      -How music today washes over us, and takes place into our part of waking up.
      And if the whole world is crashing down on you
      Fall through space, out of mind with me
      -And instead of waking up calmly, and nicely... TO something, you wake up to a horrible life, a horrible existence, a horrible experience; Let your mind go.
      Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
      Those are the shadows far away
      -When you finally leave, you look at the negativity in your life, your negative existence (by your standards) and you see that all of it is just 'warm air rising', or in your mind. In those shadows, far away.
      The falling of the whole empire, it's here to hold you
      Rolling out and haunted till it sinks
      -And while everything collapses, good or bad, there's a unification in how if all the world breaks and cracks, we all offer our hands out. But we know we'll roll out of the destruction, and sink back into the corruptive behavior our world is doomed to.
      Noodle (Little Dragon):
      Little memories, marching on
      Your little feet working the machine
      -Waking up, you immediately assume the position of moving the world. We've done it all our child-hood, and we've never had the chance to grow up, inside ourselves, because we've constantly moved the machine, 'with out little feet'. The memories of our childhood just march on through our head, whenever we think of this.
      Will it spin? Will it soar?
      My little dream working the machine
      -You have no idea how the world will go for you when you wake up. Will the world just spin- will it be dull, and crappy? Will it soar- will it be meaningful?
      Soothe like a wave
      It passes far
      -When we trudge through the day, we want disruption. We want chaos, and in our minds, it's soothing.
      Closing in on the moon
      From where we are
      -Having the chaos over-take even the moon, but just in our mind. It'll never happen.
      Overall, I believe this song hits on how the human mind thinks and how we are when we first wake up into the day, how our existence as an 'ant' tends to feel like an entire 'empire' on our shoulders. It just speaks of our feelings day to day. Routine feelings, because we are like ants, in constant routine, doing whatever we do. And sometimes in an ants routine, a human steps on it's ant-hole, and ruins a colony. We didn't know if that day would soar, or spin. Just a thought.

    • @phoenix94eternitythebest98
      @phoenix94eternitythebest98 9 років тому +2

      Mario Flores Garcia yes, indeed. But there are 2 things: the world is bad, but it is not true that the corruption necessarily take our souls, everyone can be stronger than it, it just depends by the character and the attitude of a person. Moreover a dream is not air rising and it's not dust. To tell the truth even this world could be only a long dream, the thing we call "imaginary" may be real or inspired by other real things. What we call reality is what is SUPPOSED to be reality and the same is about imagination. In truth the humans are not so onnipotent for saying what is real and what is not real. At the final this distinction itself fall down and all we can say is that there are just different worlds. So there is nothing illusory and bad in dreaming, and we can just say that actually we live in this world. Many humans have a so strong desire to give an explanation to everything, but it's a silly desire. I have not this desire. How I go on? well the world is so terrible, but the feelings can overcome everything and I had the luck to give and receive wonderful feelings. Not everyone are able to not be corrupted by the world, and the ones who are not able to do so, say that it's impossible, instead of admit their weakness/less strongness. it takes courage and stubbornness for living with a free mind. This had to be a reply to you, and it became a reply to the song itself, perhaps

    • @phoenix94eternitythebest98
      @phoenix94eternitythebest98 9 років тому

      ***** perhaps I misunderstood what you said, but if you are saying that I'm having a cookie, you're so wrong. I just use my mind a little little little bit more than just for eating, drinking and sleeping. Surely I don't need the approval of the entire world, cause the world don't scare me, even if I had the entire world against me. If you are imagining me like a snob with suits who think to be a superior being drinking cups of tea, well you're wrong. I'm just a person with a mind and with a heart, and I'm not ashame to say it

    • @phoenix94eternitythebest98
      @phoenix94eternitythebest98 9 років тому +1

      ***** oh, I understood. That's ok. I like cookies, but I'm more glad if you eat it :))

  • @barlthy3128
    @barlthy3128 3 місяці тому +4

    Unbelievable, how far music can take you from this typical world, everyday society, routine and government machine, and give you this feeling, feeling of peace. One of my favourite song from gorilllaz

  • @javierrubiomanzano6034
    @javierrubiomanzano6034 3 роки тому +14

    Im drunk BUT Plastic Beach is one of the most beatiful proyect of music ever. Sorry for my english, but Gorillaz made me someone else

  • @mcklinky2400
    @mcklinky2400 5 років тому +293

    Man and I thought this song sucked, then I decided to listen to it again AND ITS AMAZING WHAT WAS PAST ME THINKING

  • @Thorogrimm
    @Thorogrimm 10 років тому +60

    It's weird listening to this, because when it first came out I never used to be into the Gorillaz and I remember listening to it. But now as I'm quite a big fan of them, they feel quite old, but a small part of my childhood.

  • @dulguunnasanbat3325
    @dulguunnasanbat3325 3 роки тому +50

    This song will be in my heart forever... I promise

  • @ben-km6uu
    @ben-km6uu 2 роки тому +19

    The first time I ever listened to this song I had just started reading 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and I must have played this song on repeat at least 20 times. So now every time I hear this song I picture a hot and humid summers afternoon, resting upon a chair on a patio in some villa in Macondo, the sun streaming through the trees and fresh fruit piled up high on a kitchen bench and rotting on the streets. Interesting how music can do that, even though this song and the book have little tangible thematic similarities lol.

    • @possessedslig
      @possessedslig 3 місяці тому

      I need to go back to that book, I couldn't get through it first go

  • @tahu9759
    @tahu9759 8 років тому +46

    Without doubt, one of the best Plastic Beach songs.

  • @JuacoMmM
    @JuacoMmM 7 років тому +105

    if you are wondering about the artist is Jamie Hewll , he truly is a talented dude

    • @EmilXOM
      @EmilXOM 7 років тому +15

      *Hewlett

    • @JuacoMmM
      @JuacoMmM 7 років тому +6

      ajaja Hewll on instagram

    • @EmilXOM
      @EmilXOM 7 років тому +24

      !Zombeee Yeah but his name is still Jamie Hewlett

  • @jewelrybonney234
    @jewelrybonney234 3 роки тому +11

    My favorite Gorrillaz song period

  • @ThisFeatureisPointlessLmao
    @ThisFeatureisPointlessLmao 3 роки тому +14

    0:38 [Verse 1: 2-D]
    Oh, joys are us, the sun has come again to hold you
    Sailing out the doldrums of the week
    The polyphonic prayer is here, it's all around you
    It's all around you, out here
    1:17 [Bridge: 2-D]
    And if the whole world is crashing down (on you)
    Fall through space out of mind with me
    1:36 [Verse 2: 2-D]
    Where the emptiness we leave behind on warm air rising
    Blows all the shadows far away
    The falling of the whole empire, is here to hold you
    Rolling out and haunted till it sleeps
    2:45 [Hook: Yukimi Nagano]
    Little memories, marching on
    Your little feet, working the machine
    Say will it spin, will it soar?
    My little dream, working the machine
    Soon, like a wave, empires will fall
    And closing in on you, they're going on
    Little memories
    Your little feet, working the machine
    Say will it spin, will it soar?
    My little dream, working the machine
    Soon like a wave, empires will fall
    Closing in on you, they're going on
    (Lyrics by Genius)

  • @Rain-pj3vl
    @Rain-pj3vl 7 років тому +230

    this song is so :
    beautiful, amazing, breathtaking, awesome, perfect, great, magical, astonishing, stunning, unbelievable, wonderful, lovely, excellent, exceptional, fantastic, out of this world and-
    Long story short, it's a masterpiece.

  • @briangenezz4087
    @briangenezz4087 6 років тому +2175

    Para mi la mayoría de canciones de plastich beach son melancolicas

    • @elperrotumj5246
      @elperrotumj5246 5 років тому +281

      En especial mellancoly hill :v

    • @R0Wdys02
      @R0Wdys02 5 років тому +23

      Asi es

    • @euroryder1978
      @euroryder1978 5 років тому +109

      La mayoria de canciones de Gorillaz son melancolicas

    • @jorgevega4739
      @jorgevega4739 5 років тому +133

      "Melancholy beach" se tendria que llamar el album

    • @sunsunrisexx
      @sunsunrisexx 5 років тому +13

      Plástic** :v

  • @mav6044
    @mav6044 3 роки тому +13

    This song on quarantine hits brutally. Today it was raining while I was in a virtual class I started to hear this song... And cried for the first time in a long time...

  • @PlayMasterChannel
    @PlayMasterChannel 3 роки тому +34

    This song will never stop delivering the most of love and soul that went into developing these characters. It reflects on the whole journey in such a bittersweet way. Even when Gorillaz eventually dies out, Empire Ants will live on forever along with other masterpieces under the band's hood.
    Truly mindblowing.

  • @soi7536
    @soi7536 7 років тому +85

    I am so very grateful to have been born to witness Gorrilaz.

  • @firzen3697
    @firzen3697 7 років тому +138

    I tried to sleep with this song, head full of dreams.

  • @JD-hx7yd
    @JD-hx7yd 2 місяці тому +3

    This song makes me feel like I'm floating through dimensions in space. So glad I got to hear this in my lifetime.

  • @genesisosuna
    @genesisosuna 8 місяців тому +7

    My mom owned both the self titled and demon days CD. I remember she gave me the CD for Plastic Beach for my birthday. I had already heard songs like Stylo and On Melancholy Hill with the internet, but I wasn't much of a full album listener back then. Afterhk hearing the entire CD, I remember being awestruck with this song in particular. It is a feeling that is unmatched and in my opinion no song will ever match that feeling that I felt then. It was this feeling of nostalgia, sadness, melancholy, but above all, with a slight tinge of hope and joyfulness. Gorillaz has and always will be one of my favorite artists period. And this song is easily one of my favorite songs of all time. Even now, 13 years later, 27 years old, hearing this, still gives me vivid memories of the first time I ever heard this song. Thank you to my mom for me putting me onto Gorillaz and their amazing music...

  • @qwerty-gd8no
    @qwerty-gd8no 7 років тому +834

    I didnt believe when people say that music made them travel to another world...
    Now i see everything.

  • @paulyang2
    @paulyang2 10 років тому +56

    when it's rain here,I listen to this masterpiece.
    6/5 :)

  • @DemonicZ-ru2yg
    @DemonicZ-ru2yg 5 місяців тому +6

    Gorrilaz is just so beautiful im so glad im growing up with this legendary band

  • @kartoxin
    @kartoxin 9 місяців тому +12

    this just gives me a vibe of waiting for something or just calming. this is one of my favorite Gorillaz songs and for a reason. this song is really calming. it feels like I can sleep to it.

  • @OutlaweMC
    @OutlaweMC 8 років тому +80

    shit you could've warned me this was a masterpiece before I listened to it

    • @Tohru3608
      @Tohru3608 8 років тому

      yep hahah ,if u want to hear another masterpiece listen Breathing life niklas gustavsson

  • @insertusername5113
    @insertusername5113 5 років тому +2461

    people who disliked don't feel so good inc.

  • @Scout-xw1uk
    @Scout-xw1uk 2 роки тому +12

    Im listening to this album now and its resurfacing songs that I didn't know i knew, all the times my dad put this on in the car and me falling asleep to it when I was younger. It's so perfect.

    • @elijahfinch3349
      @elijahfinch3349 2 роки тому

      if you like Gorillaz you should check out Lonely Gimmick - Running, gives me strong gorillaz vibes

  • @dennismuchene5633
    @dennismuchene5633 3 роки тому +8

    The track shifted then Little Dragon started singing, and she carried the song. That's talent.

  • @_unknown.-.
    @_unknown.-. 5 років тому +52

    2:24 that drop is awsome

  • @Chaziltasm
    @Chaziltasm 8 років тому +438

    This song introduced me to Little Dragon and I'm so glad of that. I fucking love Little Dragon.

    • @themostterriblezombieplaye5080
      @themostterriblezombieplaye5080 7 років тому +3

      And gorrilaz? :P

    • @Chaziltasm
      @Chaziltasm 7 років тому +46

      I already knew about Gorillaz, I have been listening to them since I was like 8 years old.

    • @HolyShield
      @HolyShield 7 років тому +16

      Same here!! I saw a video of a live version and it was love at first sight/sound.

    • @ezri6585
      @ezri6585 6 років тому +3

      What about To Binge?

    • @jonjcc2014
      @jonjcc2014 6 років тому +1

      Little Dragon is pure auditory sex, glad they have another fan on board.
      I recommend, underbart, it's my favorite little dragon song & video.
      Check out" klap klap" too

  • @user-bf2vj8yz5v
    @user-bf2vj8yz5v 2 місяці тому +2

    Took a lonesome late night walk in the middle of my city the other night when suddenly this song played via my headphones.
    Walking through empty streets in the middle of the night with this song, especially the second part, is a feeling i just can't describe.

  • @Animotion3D
    @Animotion3D 3 роки тому +15

    i have been for long enough on the internet to not like noodle doing 4:25 that face

  • @edgargoncas7
    @edgargoncas7 8 років тому +31

    3:59 that's the best draw from the video, such a chilling picture

  • @mistathugdesolation
    @mistathugdesolation 8 років тому +234

    This is the best Gorillaz song ever.

    • @mogolliz2800
      @mogolliz2800 8 років тому +3

      +its Nacho i feel the same hope the new album has more great little moments like this one

    • @TheMirella7
      @TheMirella7 8 років тому +10

      I wish there were way more Gorillaz songs like this , Damons voice works perfectly with this type of melody .

    • @nekkawaii
      @nekkawaii 8 років тому +4

      +its Nacho I kinda preffer Some Kind of Nature o3o

    • @vladpxl
      @vladpxl 8 років тому

      +Ol' Dirty Nacho Nah, heard better. You seem familiar to me....have i seen you in a certain discord server?

    • @mistathugdesolation
      @mistathugdesolation 8 років тому

      Probably Brawlhalla or something.

  • @jorgecabrera1668
    @jorgecabrera1668 Рік тому +88

    Es una de mis rolas favoritas de Gorillaz y lo seguirá siendo, es perfecta

  • @randomfangirl1275
    @randomfangirl1275 Рік тому +7

    Little Dragon’s voice in this is so beautiful wow

  • @dystopictapez208
    @dystopictapez208 3 роки тому +582

    *Noodle:* I make big part of the most popular album of the band and you just send helicopters to kill me in my favorite place.
    *Murdoc:* Yeah, you forgive me?
    *Noodle:* Sure, why not?

  • @Tohru3608
    @Tohru3608 8 років тому +205

    Masterpiece .

  • @mawiyah3555
    @mawiyah3555 3 роки тому +8

    This Is By Far My Favorite Gorillaz Song

  • @belirsiz9611
    @belirsiz9611 Рік тому +5

    This song is just like when your team is losing 0-3 in the first half of a football game. The second half feels like they come back the game 4-3

  • @amer-ib9gn
    @amer-ib9gn 4 роки тому +25

    The way "arise" sounds like "are us" is honestly so pretty

  • @user-ji1ck2bp2v
    @user-ji1ck2bp2v 9 років тому +26

    Such an underrated song

  • @shortsontap99
    @shortsontap99 Рік тому +11

    the beat to this song is arguably the best they've ever done :) ridiculously good song

  • @powest1
    @powest1 3 роки тому +6

    Almost all of the songs in Plastic Beach feels like a Single, even though only 3 of the songs are singles, one of their best albums ever.

  • @zambrano8512
    @zambrano8512 8 років тому +2413

    My experience with most Gorillaz songs:
    I hear it once: this song sucks.
    I hear it a second time: You know what, this song is actually not that bad.
    I hear it ten more times: I FUCKING LOVE THIS!!!

    • @jamesoreilly1018
      @jamesoreilly1018 8 років тому +96

      Same, i used to only like three or four songs the demon days album now I like most of them

    • @davidmiller1587
      @davidmiller1587 8 років тому +5

      I Know Right

    • @NatieGreen
      @NatieGreen 8 років тому +21

      that happened to me with the songs "people", "spitting out the demons" and "RockIt", now I like them a lot, but not as much as this song or "to binge", they are my fav

    • @OyasumiNoodle
      @OyasumiNoodle 8 років тому +11

      SAME M8
      I was like "uh what's this."
      And after a few times Its my favorite song.

    • @aestheticgarbage6671
      @aestheticgarbage6671 8 років тому +5

      My experience is more like when you hear a song 10x, but I feel like that immediately.

  • @arj4y
    @arj4y 8 років тому +29

    Jamie Hewlett is an AMAZING artist.

  • @joaoaugustoporto8728
    @joaoaugustoporto8728 Рік тому +227

    acho que é uma das melhores músicas da história, simplesmente

  • @manubo4454
    @manubo4454 9 місяців тому +2

    I just came from the tiny desk video of little dragon and I just realised how this people plus gorillaz make me love more and more Empire Ants (Plastic Beach)

  • @stephaniemorales195
    @stephaniemorales195 8 років тому +1047

    I just want Gorillaz in a *REALLY BIG WORLD TOUR* after they have released the album this year, I want them in South America!!

    • @Ler.888
      @Ler.888 8 років тому

      yaasss

    • @Watagachi
      @Watagachi 8 років тому

      +Stephanie Morales I agree

    • @andreapisful3772
      @andreapisful3772 8 років тому

      +Stephanie Morales Amén sister!!

    • @luxwutang
      @luxwutang 8 років тому

      another album? source please?

    • @Kicksyy
      @Kicksyy 8 років тому

      the album wont be released until 2017 ;____;