Some brief notes I have made to support how Gorillaz are postmodern (or not...)
- Virtual Band
- 'REJECT FALSE ICONS'
- Hyperreality
- Simulation/simulacra
- Intertextuality
- Virtual Identities
- Eclectic genre style (bricolage of different styles such as R&B, electro, reggae, rock..) Far from being original?
- Japanese anime and holographic technology - bricolage
- Style over substance - image identity...
- Voyeurism
- Media saturation
- Globalised!
- Self Reflexivity
- Political collective, Metanarratives...
- Consumerism and Technology
- Challenges modernism... Manchester Opera house.
- "if you watch MTV for too long, it's a bit like hell – there's nothing of substance there. So we got this idea for a cartoon band, something that would be a comment on that," Hewlett said. (STYLE over substance)
... I believe it can be strongly argued that this band is postmodern as it challenges modernist views/beliefs of media and our world as the band includes many postmodern aspects such as hyperreality, simulacra, intertextuality, globalisation, consumerism and technology, virtual identities.... etc!
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