Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Lyrics

this is one in millions of songs what i like of gorillaz , sorry i am learning english, but really i love it viva! Damon Albarn

i love this song n_n

kinda sounds like he's saying "it's ezio from assassins creed"

I think this about 2-D's dream of escaping the Plastic Beach that Murdoc has him captured on. From the Song lyrics, it sounds like try to he's trying to express himself through he's singing...

actually the line is "It's Automated Computer-Speech" (I know cos it was on the screen when i saw them live in london) I think it means that the whale is some plastic creation that's not quite a living thing (i.e. made of plastic, robot talk) but nethertheless has become part of nature. This would also, i guess, tie in with the meaning behind "Pirate Jet" which Murdoc said was about a future were everything is made from plastic.

"the only whale" is a referance to the whale the Murdoc hired to make sure 2D doesnt escape from the beach.

And the initial inspiration was from the discovery that our trash doesnt destroy nature, it becomes a part of it. A direct example was a snake living in decomposing plastic and liking the warmth of it.

I ♥ this song! My new obsession ☺. I can hear this song every morning and start out with a happy mood till the rest of the day :D

The band has already said that the point of this song and this album are not ecology centered. Its a viewpoint as from living on the island portrayed in the album.

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is indeed the topic of this song and plastic pollution is one of the primary themes of this entire album. Essentially, all the plastic bottles, bottle caps, and whatever assorted junk littering in streets, when it rains, gets washed into storm drains which empty into larger bodies of water and all the plastic garbage eventually drifts out and collects in the ocean which has now grown to a giant island of floating plastic bits that wild sea birds eat and perish from. Look it up. There are some amazing photos online. Especially of the seabird skeletons filled with bottle caps and other rubbish.

It has a bit of The Good the Bad and the Queen style. Especially bass. Also the GBQ has a song about whale as well

I love this song!! I just picture 2D walking around the plastic beach singing this song.... that would be the sickest video!!!!!

It is indeed about all the plastic in the pacific. I wonder how much of that plastic a drift is from Casio products. Cruel reality, lets just ignore it.

Casio is a company than makes plastic-framed electronics -- including the first synthesizer-guitar. The song covers the theme of environmental destruction caused by discarded plastics: "the only (remaining) whale," "Styrofoam deep sea landfill," etc.

amazing sound...but I can't figure out what the hell it means!
D: I'm stumped...a casio? that's a company that makes keyboards, because I own one from when I was little...(plus person below me said it, lol) but what do they have to do with anything?! and a whale? styrophome landfill? WUT!?!

does anyone get this?

Casio is technically a brand of consumer electronics, but yes, along with cheap digital watches, they are also well known for making cheap electronic musical keyboards.

A casio is a piano/ keyboard with fake instruments sounds that can be generated from it. My guess is this song (and perhaps album) has an enviornmental theme to it... Also, perhaps the "plastic beach" theme is a reference to question what is real and what is not... Feelings, people, life, motives, instruments, music, the land, etc.. I am not 100% on the meaning, but absolutely love this record!!! It's very rich and flavorful!

This song is about the plastic island in the pacific ocean that's the size of Texas.

Sh't man. Killer sound that killz. I'm glad i bought this album. I can't quite get the meaning to the song though, and what's a Casio?? Still. >|KILLER SOUND|

this song is crazy! me likey! this song is crazy! me likey! this song is crazy! me likey!

gorillaz is the sh&#039t i&#039m seriously impressed with the new tune. its kinda like nintendo 8bit sound with acid lol