Hello, guys!
Today's song iiiiis: Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz!
I guess that regarding the contemporary musical scene, we can enhance this band as one of the best. Not only concerning the band members musical abilities or their frontman's (Damon Albarn) compositional skills, but also their originality regarding their performances levels (their use of the technologies, and the creation of the characters, which was very inovative). This particular music video introduced most of the world to the four animated band members of Gorillaz (2-D, Noodle, Russel and Murdoc) - created by comic illustrator Jamie Hewlett.
The reason the song is called Clint Eastwood is because of the strange harmonica-like instrument (called melodica which is a keyboard instrument that is played by blowing a tube and pressing it's keys) used in the background. The Same instrument was used in Eastwood's movie A Fistful of Dollars.
As for the lyric's interpretation , I always thought that maybe something bad happened to him but he can't do nothing about it so he puts on a "fake smile" that he always uses - "sunshine in a bag".
But then, as I got to do some research, I found a more likely interpretation: the video and song is a reference to the famous western starring actor Clint Eastwood, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", arguably Clint Eastwood's greatest film. The yell from the film's theme song can even be heard at the beginning of the video. Closeups of the bandmember's faces are featured throughout the video (something that is often used in spaghetti westerns). Midway through the film, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien summons a graveyard from the ground, which is a reference to the ending of this Eastwood's film. Although often mistaken for referring to drugs such as marijuana, LSD, or shrooms, the song's famous chorus, "I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad. I got sunshine in a bag", is a reference to the gold in the bag Clint Eastwood's character rides off with at the end of the film. I guess this view is taken in a more literal sense. I never saw it that way but it sounds pretty right.
The reason the song is called Clint Eastwood is because of the strange harmonica-like instrument (called melodica which is a keyboard instrument that is played by blowing a tube and pressing it's keys) used in the background. The Same instrument was used in Eastwood's movie A Fistful of Dollars.
As for the lyric's interpretation , I always thought that maybe something bad happened to him but he can't do nothing about it so he puts on a "fake smile" that he always uses - "sunshine in a bag".
But then, as I got to do some research, I found a more likely interpretation: the video and song is a reference to the famous western starring actor Clint Eastwood, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly", arguably Clint Eastwood's greatest film. The yell from the film's theme song can even be heard at the beginning of the video. Closeups of the bandmember's faces are featured throughout the video (something that is often used in spaghetti westerns). Midway through the film, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien summons a graveyard from the ground, which is a reference to the ending of this Eastwood's film. Although often mistaken for referring to drugs such as marijuana, LSD, or shrooms, the song's famous chorus, "I ain't happy, I'm feeling glad. I got sunshine in a bag", is a reference to the gold in the bag Clint Eastwood's character rides off with at the end of the film. I guess this view is taken in a more literal sense. I never saw it that way but it sounds pretty right.
Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz
I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.I'm useless, but not for long.
The future is coming on.
I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
The future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on,
It's coming on, it's coming on.
Yeah, ha ha.
Finally someone let me out of my cage.
Now time for me is nothing 'cause I'm counting no age.
No, I couldn't be there. No, you shouldn't be scared.
I'm good at repairs and I'm under each snare.
Intangible, bet you didn't think, so I command you to.
Panoramic view, look I'll make it all manageable.
Pick and choose, sit and lose, all you different crews.
Chicks and dudes, who you think is really kicking tunes?
Picture you getting down in a picture tube,
Like you lit the fuse.
You think it's fictional? Mystical, maybe.
Spiritual hero who appears in you to clear your view when you're too crazy.
Lifeless, to those the definition for what life is.
Priceless to you because I put you on the hype shit.
You like it? Gun smoking, righteous, with one token psychic
Among those, possess you with one go.
I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
The future is coming on.
I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
The future is coming on.
The essence, the basics, without it, you make it.
Allow me to make this childlike in nature.
Rhythm, you have it or you don't, that's a fallacy.
I'm in them, every sprouting tree, every child apiece,
Every cloud at sea, you see with your eye.
You see destruction and demise, corruption in disguise,
From this fucking enterprise, now I'm sucking to your lies
Through Russel, not his muscles, but percussion he provides
With me as a guide.
Y'all can see me now 'cause you don't see with your eye.
You perceive with your mind. That's the inner.
So I'm-a stick around with Russ and be a mentor,
Bust a few rhymes so motherfuckers remember
Where the thought is. I brought all this
So you can survive when law is lawless.
Feelings, sensations that you thought was dead.
No squealing, remember that it's all in your head.
I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
The future is coming on.
I ain't happy. I'm feeling glad.
I got sunshine in a bag.
I'm useless, but not for long.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on, it's coming on.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on.
My future is coming on.
It's coming on, it's coming on.
My future
xoxo, Lucy