Gorillaz | Demon Days | Plastic Beach | Humanz
- Throw It In!: According to interviews, the title of "Dare" came from the fact that the guest singer, Shaun Ryder, couldn't pronounce "there" because of his accent. The original lyric was "It's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up, it's there!", but it was changed after a few takes proved it impossible for Ryder to record that understandably.
- What Could Have Been:
- As revealed on D-Sides, "Don't Get Lost in Heaven" was originally going to sound a lot different
, vastly more like a snappy acoustic joint rather than heavenly gospel-pop. - Around 2003 and the preamble to Demon Days, Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett teased the existence of an upcoming feature-length Gorillaz movie with DreamWorks Animation referred to as Celebrity Harvestnote , whose plot was about "the end of time, brought out by the sickness of celebrity culture". It was scrapped as DreamWorks kept insisting on making it family-friendly, and many of the aesthetic and story elements (such as backstories for Noodle and Russel) were repurposed elsewhere throughout Phase 2 media.
- As revealed on D-Sides, "Don't Get Lost in Heaven" was originally going to sound a lot different
