Where we're at as a species on this overpopulated planet ( "Coming on to the Overload. With 'Stylo', I wanted the music to feel euphoric, whilst still putting across how precarious our tightly packed situation is now, worldwide. An electro-ish 'crack funk' sound, with a little bit of politics and a lot of soul going down. Music and lyrical content įictional band member Murdoc Niccals stated the following about "Stylo" in a track-by-track commentary: He was sat down and given a banana, before waking up minutes later. After an hour of recording, Womack, a diabetic, started to pass out. "I was in there for an hour going crazy about love and politics, getting it off my chest", said Womack. Womack was told to sing whatever was on his mind during the recording of "Stylo". Explaining that the electric love depends highly on itself to stay alive, therefore it needs to grow to live.(This idea i came up with last, not 100% on it.Bobby Womack knew nothing about Gorillaz and was initially unsure about the collaboration however, his granddaughter liked Gorillaz and convinced him to do it. Human Nature wants her to be happy, but he knows she doesn't love him, but wants to give her what she wants.
Stylo/The Electric, the one 2D/Human Nature loves, is asking for her to follow her dreams of electricity, fakeness, and plastic. 2D aka Human Nature, has noticed how powerful Stylo/The Electric/, has become to powerful, and theres too much of it to control. My guess it means that Human Nature purposely gave Stylo power, then it became incredible, and in a way became part of nature. He basically gives you the whole song, or the of the story, in a metaphor, and tells you in the end to "work it out", telling you to figure it out. Mos Def is a sort of spokesperson for Stylo, saying how all the power and electricity is good or a completely metaphorical voice. 2D in this case also loves Stylo, but its noticing that shes getting too big too bare and its becoming a problem. General CommentI believe in this world of The Plastic Beach, Bobby is Nature, seeing everything happen, but also falling for Stylo, or The Electric. The lyrics suggest to me the message that our love of electricity and energy has changed us fundamentally as human beings. The stylo car which represents our society careens off the cliff and is transformed into something else and swims away. This is the point the stylo car careens off the cliff. When you factor in the lyrics with video, I think it's saying the system is overloaded and its coming to an end. The stylo car then careens off of a cliff into the water and is transformed. The shadowy figure(played by Bruce Willis) gleefully shoots at the stylo car from different angles, terrorizing it's occupants and forcing them to speed faster. The sky's darken when the shadowy figure begins his chase which symbolizes and suggests that he has some supernatural power or controls some supernatural power. Then another figure chases the car(our society) in a similarly fast car(another society). At first the car(our society) is chased by inept police who fail to catch us.
The car in the video is already shot up and damaged. The car is our society, average people, being chased. Song MeaningI think this song and video together paint an interesting picture. Towards the end the stylo car speeds up (like how technology is increasing at an exponential rate) and then magically transforms in to a submarine shark thing over the cliff and escapes whilst bruce willis is left behind thinking they are dead. It's a race against our current condition, the authorities and then some other element which Bruce Willis represents, possibly the love of violence, you can see he takes great joy in trying to catch them and shooting their mirror whilst the cop crawls desperately for his doughnuts. General CommentI think this song is about the race to freedom through technology and specifically the singularity.Īt the beginning of the video the car marked with stylo is just looking down at the floor and can't really see where it is going and then you see its smoking already damaged and one of the cartoon gorilla guys has been shot and he smokes like a machine, I think that represents freedom and technology and the idea that we don't really know where we are going and are in pretty bad shape at the moment as a society. It's got a way of passing through man and woman Sing yourself out of depression, rise above Then I'll know the twilight skies are not so broken hearted When the mako flies up from the bottom in your eyes
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