{"id":556202,"date":"2023-02-24T19:58:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T16:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/damon-albarn-wont-drink-the-kool-aid\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T19:58:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T16:58:23","slug":"damon-albarn-wont-drink-the-kool-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/damon-albarn-wont-drink-the-kool-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"#Damon Albarn won\u2019t drink the Kool-Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28707ae677f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" 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.custom-attribution a {\n   color: ;\n }<\/p>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243105\" class=\"content_block flush title center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Damon Albarn won\u2019t drink the Kool-Aid\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      The Gorillaz co-founder discusses his virtual band\u2019s new album, <i>Cracker Island<\/i>, on the new episode of The FADER Interview podcast.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\" image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/gz.album.press.shot_1_vnja8y\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg\" 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    Courtesy of Gorillaz<br \/>\n  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"custom_share_buttons_top \" style=\"\">\n<div id=\"new_socials_bottom\" class=\"new_socials_footer  \">\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thefader.com\/assets\/FDR_SocialSharing_Facebook-747312c39722d47504a80f02500b8d4ad2e36acf922bad1c83799db1bc77f605.png\" alt=\"Fdr socialsharing facebook\"><!-- <span>Share<\/span> --><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefader.com%2F2023%2F02%2F24%2Fdamon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature%3Futm_source%3Df%26utm_medium%3Dtw%26utm_campaign%3Dshare&amp;text=Damon%20Albarn%20won%E2%80%99t%20drink%20the%20Kool-Aid&amp;via=thefader\" class=\"new_social_footer_button twitter new_social_share_button\" data-ga-event-category=\"Social Share\" data-ga-event-label=\"Twitter\" 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reality ends and the cartoon world begins with Gorillaz. The band\u2019s four animated members \u2014 blue-haired lead singer 2-D, Satan-worshiping bassist Murdoch, Zen-minded guitarist Noodle, and intermittently possessed drummer Russel Hobbs \u2014 give their own interviews, produce weird podcasts, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear on stage as larger-than-life projections. There\u2019s a deep and proudly absurd lore around the band \u2014 one that would be impossible to summarize in a reasonably sized book. If the group\u2019s real-life founders \u2014 Blur frontman Damon Albarn and graphic artist Jamie Hewlett \u2014 are ever in the spotlight, they\u2019re at least sharing it with their creations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            That\u2019s allowed Albarn in particular a much-needed measure of freedom. A quarter-century ago, when he and Hewlett formed the band in their West London apartment, Blur still came with expectations, pressures, unwelcome critical attentions that Albarn couldn\u2019t shake. Gorillaz initially created a diversion, allowing him to experiment with hip-hop and dub, funk and Afrobeat, punk and electropop. As the project grew, he started collaborating more, bringing in De La Soul, MF DOOM, Lou Reed, Mark E. Smith. 2020\u2019s sprawling <i>Song Machine<\/i> project had at least one collaborator on every song, and the sounds and ideas were even more varied than the names on the tracklist. Maybe the cartoon world made the real world a bit more vivid. <\/p>\n<p>            Gorillaz\u2019s eighth studio album, <i>Cracker Island<\/i>, is a more focused affair. There are huge names here \u2014 Thundercat, Stevie Nicks, Bad Bunny \u2014 but only a handful. The official lore around it involves the band moving to Los Angeles, where Murdoch tries to set himself up as a cult leader, partly because he\u2019s obsessed with the cult next door \u2014 which his bandmate 2-D has enthusiastically signed up to join. But beneath the farce, <i>Cracker Island<\/i> is about the internet age, about confected realities and the egotists who push them, the rubble of misinformation. It\u2019s the cartoon world trying to make sense of the real world, and, occasionally, coming up without answers. As Albarn explained when I spoke to him yesterday, it\u2019s an idea that\u2019s been simmering beneath Gorillaz since the beginning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243107\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GORILLAZ.New_Gold.landscape_y3fx74\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GORILLAZ.New_Gold.landscape_y3fx74\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GORILLAZ.New_Gold.landscape_y3fx74\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GORILLAZ.New_Gold.landscape_y3fx74\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GORILLAZ.New_Gold.landscape_y3fx74\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GORILLAZ.New_Gold.landscape_y3fx74\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GORILLAZ.New_Gold.landscape_y3fx74\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GORILLAZ.New_Gold.landscape_y3fx74\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GORILLAZ.New_Gold.landscape_y3fx74\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GORILLAZ.New_Gold.landscape_y3fx74\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/GORILLAZ.New_Gold.landscape_y3fx74\/damon-albarn-the-fader-interview-feature.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Damon Albarn won\u2019t drink the Kool-Aid\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243108\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>This Q&amp;A is taken from the latest episode of The FADER Interview podcast. To hear this week\u2019s show in full, and to access the podcast\u2019s archive, click <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#9fd770\" href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/thefaderinterview\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243109\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TFI7834680816\" width=\"100%\" height=\"482\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243110\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>The FADER: I wanted to start with <i>Song Machine<\/i> \u2014 this sprawling project packed with collaborators.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Damon Albarn:<\/b>: It somehow made sense as an album, but it certainly wasn\u2019t made as an album. We just kept going during lockdown, like, \u201cCan we put a song out a month?\u201d That was the vibe: \u201cWe\u2019ll stop when we can\u2019t do it anymore.\u201d And then we just put them all together in the end. This record\u2019s actually got a narrative, so it\u2019s a totally different thing.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>But you started it thinking that it might be another <i>Song Machine<\/i>, right?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Not really. Once I started [<i>Cracker Island<\/i>], I was like, \u201cI\u2019m doing this in L.A. and it\u2019s going to sound like this.\u201d This is the beauty of Gorillaz: We can make it up as we go along, and we do. So it was\u2026 \u201cHow do I feel about L.A.? How do I feel about the world at the moment? And how can I somehow put that through my own emotional cipher? <\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Gorillaz is all about geography, in a sense, because we have this metaverse for a long time. It\u2019s accumulated lots of space, and the psychogeography is quite huge. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> around to different eras in different parts of the universe or the world or the island indeed.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Your attitude towards L.A. seems to have developed.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Yeah, it\u2019s softened hugely. I used to actively not enjoy myself here, quite deliberately. I always used to arrive by plane and get driven in a car to Sunset Boulevard, or I\u2019d arrive on a bus to Sunset Boulevard and I wouldn\u2019t really leave other than where we went to where were playing until I left Los Angeles. And I didn\u2019t drive then, so I was trapped, and after a while, same view, isn\u2019t it? I just didn\u2019t feel like I knew L.A.. Obviously, I don\u2019t know it completely now, but it fascinates me, and I do find it a very inspiring place. That\u2019s how I chose to approach making the record.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243112\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gorillaz - Cracker Island ft. Thundercat (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S03T47hapAc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('243112');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243113\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b>When you go to L.A. and you really <i>get<\/i> it for the first time, it\u2019s easy to become a bit of an evangelist for it. But that\u2019s not what Cracker Island does. It delves, with a sense of humor, into a slightly darker side of it.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            There are certain properties I\u2019ve been to while I\u2019ve been here that are very clearly cultish and have been occupied by communities of people who have become very self-absorbed.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>That\u2019s what happens to Murdoch in the lore of his record.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            He\u2019s traversing the Northern Hemisphere as a specter of Rasputin. He\u2019s really taken the Kool-Aid to heart. And once you believe in the power of the Kool-Aid, you want to share it with everyone. Beware the Kool-Aid.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>There\u2019s a commentary here about the internet age and about where we\u2019re living right now, but this type of thing goes back a long way before talking about anything QAnon or the alt-right.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            They\u2019re all connected, aren\u2019t they? The idea of a secret society goes right back to the dawn of mankind, the necessity to try and find meaning in the vastness of life.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>You refer to <i>Cracker Island<\/i> as people living in a reality they can affect, so people don\u2019t want to explore outside of it.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Everyone gravitates to the island where their ideas are understood. Personally, I\u2019m not on my way to Cracker Island. In fact, you could say my ferry is heading the other way.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243115\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gorillaz presents\u2026 Skinny Ape (Immersive Live Performance in Times Square)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iFaKhtlBU7A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('243115');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content_block paragraph triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-243116\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <b><i>Song Machine<\/i> was exploding with collaborators, whereas <i>Cracker Island<\/i> really feels like a Gorillaz record, very pared down in comparison.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Maybe that\u2019s just the nature of collaboration. I find that sometimes, I don\u2019t really have to do too much on somebody else\u2019s thing for me to be there. And sometimes it\u2019s entirely on you. So it\u2019s just being in the room, sharing that joy, embracing the spirit of collaboration as your instrument to travel with.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>That helps you to traverse generations, I suppose, as well. Just here, you\u2019ve got the vast space between Stevie Nicks and Bad Bunny.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            But they do share something in common: being very, very, very popular.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>How do you think the popularity affects it?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I don\u2019t know. I\u2019ve never experienced their level of popularities, but it\u2019s nice to be an observer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>Do you really not think you have?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Not really. It\u2019s just not quantifiable like that, is it? I\u2019ve never been a pop artist \u2014 not that Fleetwood Mac were ever pop. And Bad Bunny, he\u2019s not pop. Pop has come to him. I don\u2019t feel like he\u2019s a pop artist. He\u2019s more of a phenomenon in pop, because he can write, sing; he\u2019s got very good business acumen, very cool, interesting outlook; from a small place, not from the mainstream at all, and an amazing totem for Latin American sensibility and culture around the world, which in my books is a very positive place to be.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>When you started Gorillaz, there was the idea of a manufactured band.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            At that point, it was very obvious when you weren\u2019t involved in the music making. And that didn\u2019t matter if the end result had that joy in it. I don\u2019t suppose it really matters actually how [music] is made; it\u2019s the outcome. But if you were in a band, you always thought, \u201cWell, do they play their own instruments?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            But now, because everything essentially can be made on a computer, people are not so discerning about how it\u2019s generated, to the point where we\u2019re allowing AI generation in music to seep in in quite an alarming way. But more broadly speaking, we\u2019re becoming synthesized. We\u2019re metamorphosing.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>But inherently, the main concern behind Gorillaz remains that it\u2019s really about the human connection of the music making behind it. It\u2019s a more authentic thing than any of the fake bands fronted by real humans.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            Music was a gift to homo sapiens and a way to carry them to far places in their imagination and communicate with things that were invisible. It\u2019s been used for so many different transportations. It\u2019s transcendental when applied properly. And it\u2019s there \u2014 I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s free for everyone because it clearly isn\u2019t, but it is in a way. You can hear all music for free if you want to find it. I don\u2019t recommend you doing that, obviously, not when it comes to this new album. Fine if you do, but I\u2019m just saying I don\u2019t recommend it.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>Gorillaz were ahead of the curve with even the notion of having you standing behind a screen early on and your characters being the live performers, and now you have this ersatz reflection of that in holograms live holograms. There was an authentic idea behind it, and this feels like a tawdry recreation of that. All of these ideas you had, does it feel strange to now see them reflected back at you?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Why are people doing it? I think you\u2019ve got to <i>know<\/i> why you want to have a hologram, got to <i>own<\/i> that hologram, not just have one. Just because you\u2019ve got one doesn\u2019t mean shit.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div>\n<p>            <b>You close the album with quite an optimistic sentiment, this notion that we\u2019re all in this together till the end. 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