Gorillaz: Feel Good Inc. Meaning
Song Released: 2002
Feel Good Inc. Lyrics
Feel good(x8)
City's breaking down on a camel's back,
They just have to go 'cause they don't know wack,
So all you fill the streets it's appealing to see,
You wont get out the county, 'cos your bad and free
You've got a...
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I think this song is about how everything that "feels good" is marketed by huge corporations and becomes commercial. "Feel Good Inc" represents everything that has been reduced to merely its value in money, a world where people starve for power. The windmill is just happiness found in simplicity, and as shown in the video, it is like an island cruising around looking for those who seek salvation from corporate greed.
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it is about people in a place where they tell themselves everything is safe, happy, and ok when it really isn't. they see this island where everything really is great,and carefree. they want to be there.they know they can't be there but they desprately wish they could!!
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The parallels might be coincidental, but I wonder if this song is inspired by George Orwell's Animal farm, where the windmill symbolizes attaining a better life, and self serving forces try to reap benefit and destroy it in an effort to enrich themselves and gain control. It seems like this song builds on the idea... revolutionize and take the windmill to higher ground to a place of love, away from power hungry control forces and their enslaving dependencies.
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This song is primarily about how music entities (and other entities, I will explain with music corporations) are selling things that will make people happy, for maximum profit, and defining happiness with ownership of money, products and other 'desireables'. If someone decides to produce something that they think will make people happy, the corporations will crush them, hence "with yo' sound, you kill the inc."
I think that the song is about how companies and the overall population find products, money and "desireables" to be a source of happiness, when the world's real happiness, in the mind of gorillaz, to be friendship, love, and doing what you like. -
the tower represents the media trapping everyone (including Murdoc,Russel and 2-D)in a world full of corruption ,which ,at first, was made by US,the free people.
Muds is actually content with feel good inc.
and doesn't mind being trapped. Whereas 2D has finally came to realise that he should be free . Russel doesn't really care for either freedom or being trapped. The windmill represents free thinking and individual ideas. The 2 rappers on-screen can be interprated as the media ,trying to dumb down 2-d amd make him think he is too weak to retialate. the end(where he sits back down and repeats the phrase "feel good")represents those with a free will succumbing to the urge to be dumbed down and just quitting altogether. the choppers are either : A)chasing noodle away so not to encourage free will or B) trying to make her give in to the media -
This song definatly focuses on the world falling apart and not being able to controll yourself ( they say "Steady, Watch Me Navigate" but after comes in sacrcastic and even insane laghter because noone is every in complete controll. The windmill symbolizes morallity and as it fall down love becomes free, this shows that love has come to mean nothing, and because it is free we have no incentive to keep it because we didnt have to work for it
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i find the wind part easy to under stand 2d talking about he want to be free from life he has and he see noodles who out the and that she is free.
other say that 2d talking about his love for noodles because he starts sign after he see her through the window also windmill what could mean never ending so he want his love to never end.
this song very hard to actually understand is has like more than one meaning. like feel good inc people think its related to sex.
funny thing most of gorillaz music would be impossible to under stand if they didn't have the fake band it would be impossible to actually under stand any of the meanings because you need to know the characters like murdoc is enjoying the type of life while 2d wish to get out of that type of life -
DRUG ADDICTION
it's oddly talking about the good effects drugs have on you
there is no literal phrases here
"cities breakin down on a camels back"
"they just have to go there because they don't know whack
means the your given in to drugs, and they don't know better
"windmill" means your minds constantly spining -
(MUST SEE VIDEO TO UNDERSTAND!!!) This song is about all the bad things in life people get caught up in. A lot of people choose the wrong path; murdoc (guitarist in tower) is liking it still, russel (big drummer) just goes a long with it, but 2D(singer) realizes hes made a mistake, but he cant go back-- he sees the outside world-- The REAL world-- and evies it. The rappers on the TV represent the media infecting our mind with all the bad things in life. Noodle (girl on windmill) is representing an innocent, clean life full of happiness. The windmill is a sort of metaphor for love and peace, if no one new.
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To me i think the people on the ground in the bulding represent people that have already been "dumbed down" and are in a tranced state,but 2-d,murdoc,russel have woken up from the tranced state and are trying to wake everyone up from the trance by telling them through a microphone type device. the building represents what the gorrilaz have created which was once a nice place until it got out of hand and they couldnt control it anymore and eventually were dumbed down themselves and were trapped in the structure in which they created.also de la soul are humiliating and making fun of the band in their attemps to get everyone to wake up and eventually 2-d and the other 2 members fail in their attemps and are laughed at by de la soul and the band returns to its dumbed downed state as 2-d tries to make himself believe everything is alright by saying "feel good" over and and over to himself. the windmill noodle's on represents freedom in mind and is not corrupted by the things around her.And near the end you see she looks like she is attempting to rescue them.
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I mean I think it's a song about irony. They have this big tower with all these people laying around like fans or hot chicks and stuff like that and the laughter at the beginning makes it seems like that they had a good time that everything was cool but in reality they really weren't thus when the spolight went on 2D he finally got it like it clicked in his head that the tower really wasnt a place for happiness in was really like a mental prision like having writers block. So when he got up he tried to talk some sense into everybody including murdoc as you saw in the music video when he turned to talk to him he was still playing his guitar not paying attention to him. As he went toward the window and glances out of it he sees the windmill island that noodle is on and seeing all of that he feels free but when those dudes on the screen came up it was like there were telling him that no matter how you want to leave you know you can't leave thus the dancing of 2D because he may want to leave but in his heart the inc is always going to be there and the only way to get rid of this feeling is to find inner peace and guidence.
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Mk here's what I think. I think the guy singing created this tall tower to get away from all the destruction and chaos going on under him. But in this tower they have nothing, so they dread it. And as some said before, the singer on the screen is talking about how sex and drugs will help everything, but then the windmill symbolizes hope. It is the only beautiful thing left from the chaos and the thnigs going inside the tower/ how the dread it.
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The windmills in the song symbolize the universal goal, to feel good. The need for the positive emotions is manifested through sex, drugs, etc. The windmills are the out of reach goal, something unobtainable. The wind has been associated with delusion also, so the windmills could alternately symbolize the delusion of being satisfied by the feeble attempts at happiness.
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I've read all the interpretations and some are really close - at least to what I think.
This song is about the tower of lies and corruption 2-D has built around himself. He's lying to himself, telling himself that he 'feels good'. But he longs to be on Noodle's peaceful floating island with the windmill where love is freely given and taken, and everything is simple and innocent.
2-D is sickly and small - he is caught inside this pillar of corruption that even though he does want to get out of sometimes, he can't. He watches Noodle on her island and longs to go there, but has to resort to returning inside his tower.
Till the end - he is still telling himself he 'feels good'
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