The song opens with a wonderful flute loop, accompanied by a group of strings before a catchy keyboard riff and drum beat play as Kano and Bashy rap. White Flag is a classy number with instrumentation by the Lebanese National Orchestra for Oriental Arabic Music and raps from Kano and Bashy. Kids gather around/I need your focus/I know it seems like the world is so hopeless, Snoop says in a dark set of lyrics which clearly go along with Albarns (or Niccalss) view on the world at large. The beat is reminiscent of Doggfather-era Snoop and his rhymes flow with the smooth eloquence his fans are accustomed to. Snoop Dogg joins the gang on Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach”, the laid back, horn ridden, and true opener to this record (Orchestral Intro is track one). Welcome to the world of the Plastic Beach. So now, the Gorillaz are hanging out on what looks like the coolest Play Mobile set of an island I have ever seen and have created a record that is just as amazing as the previous two. Russell, the clever and large drummer that he is, dives after the boat and swims off to the beach as well. He does this by knocking him out with sleeping gas and stuffing him into a suitcase. From what I can gather from the trailers, Murdoc Niccals has kidnapped 2D and taken him to the Plastic Beach. However, its hard to discuss one entity of the Gorillaz without discussing the other, as the cartoon bands story is just as important. Albarn still knows how to write amazing songs and pull in collaborators that span the vast scope of sound and Hewlett still knows how to create perfect images to accompany the song and cryptic storyline behind the band. But, the music video art form is almost dead to the televised world, and still, the Gorillaz have managed to stay on top of the popular music scene. They have always had a distinct animated style that set the aesthetic to numerous music videos with bizarre premises and very different song styles. The Gorillaz revolution certainly was indeed televised at first. The revolution will be televised, Snoop Dogg informs us within the first two minutes of Plastic Beach, the third and final album from Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewletts creative masterpiece, the Gorillaz.
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