"5/4" | |
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Song by Gorillaz | |
from the album Gorillaz | |
Released | 26 March 2001 |
Genre | Rock [1] |
Length | 2:42 |
Label | |
Songwriter(s) | Damon Albarn |
Producer(s) |
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Music video | |
"5/4 (Animatic)" on YouTube |
"5/4" is a song by British
virtual band
Gorillaz and is the second track on their 2001
self-titled debut
album.
[2]
[3] According to the Gorillaz biography
Rise of the Ogre, "5/4" was originally intended to follow "
Clint Eastwood" as a single, but was instead replaced by "
19-2000" at the "last minute."
[4] The storyboards
Jamie Hewlett had started for the accompanying
music video before the switch were later included on the DVD
Phase One: Celebrity Take Down.
[4] The title is a reference to the
5
4 time signature of the
guitar riff that appears throughout the track. The song was performed live by the band on
their first tour, and was subsequently brought back on the
Humanz Tour, with
Jehnny Beth taking lead vocals.
Although production for the track's music video was never finished, a storyboard from Gorillaz' 2002 compilation DVD, Phase One: Celebrity Take Down, includes an animatic for the scrapped "5/4" music video. [5] The video opens with a brief image of a woman masturbating that is censored by the Gorillaz logo. Each of her breasts is covered by a blue star. It proceeds with Gorillaz performing for a crowd upon a raised platform (the platform is in the shape of a bone). Murdoc is playing with the band when he sees a group of women on a platform next to theirs; however, the platform is too far away to get to. Murdoc then takes off his clothes until he is in completely nude, then attempts to jump to the platform with the women on it, but he instead fails to reach it and he falls into the crowd below. [6]