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The planned next music video for Gorillaz was for Rhinestone Eyes. That's been canceled now. Apparently the other singles (excluding Doncamatic) haven't done too well. So that brings a few things to question:

1. Will there be any other singles at all?
2. Will there ever be another video?

Doncamatic was a single that came out of nowhere. It wasn't on any CD (outside of it being a single and therefore earning its own) and the fact it has a video over all of the established songs was even more confusing at the time.

At this point it seems likely that it was produced to try to bump Gorillaz up.

Most people are villainizing EMI for this. I don't agree with this at all. Gorillaz costs a hell of a lot of money. Concerts keep costing the label money because they come in the red. Roskilde cost the label so much that it seemed like they might be considering dropping Gorillaz because of it. They keep having to do things like cancel entire tours and then reschedule several dates of what's left. If Gorillaz isn't making them money, then why would they fund a video? We can't expect them to perform charity. That's not how the music business works.

I'm glad that, at least, nobody is villainizing Jamie or Damon. That happens a lot and then people conveniently forget it the next time around. They're bad! They're angels who you shouldn't dare to touch! There's a middle ground here, folks. I'm sure there's ways that either of the two could cut corners to make Gorillaz cost less. It's not just EMI who's responsible for the music. Of course, I'm never going to say that on any Gorillaz forum. I'd get threatened, literally!

Both sides are going to need to learn how to compromise better, or Gorillaz is going to die. It's already dying, you could say that Doncamatic is life support. There's been a lot of signs for awhile. It's possible that Gorillaz could do well on, say, an independent label - the artists that contribute to the project would probably be okay with contributing to the funds, too. But it's a question of whether anything could raise enough money to support Gorillaz as an independent, if even EMI is having trouble with the problem.

This is why I was so upset about not being able to see a concert. It's possible that this tour will end up as the last tour. Therefore, it would have been my last chance.

From Twitter 11-20-2010

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Apparently Damon has started recording another new Gorillaz cd. (Keep in mind he just finished a tour diary CD). This is puzzling for one reason.

He plans to release it "before Christmas", but only started it recently.

......books take at least a year to get to print, could a CD really make it by then, even if he did finish this quick? Let alone that he's going to have to be choosing what goes on there. There's so many b side CDs each round because he and Bruce Springsteen have one thing on common: they record too much! Each Boss CD has at least 30 hours of extra music. Damon is pretty similar. We know that with each Phase, the main CD and the b sides CD are still not all the material. And there is several hours worth of extra music that never got put on Plastic Beach.

I would think he's using the extra Plastic Beach recordings as a base, but apparently it's all from scratch. It's a 'follow-up' to Plastic Beach, so it would make sense if this is the P Sides cd, but it's all new music. Unless a lot of material was just on paper and he's recording it now, but is that really how a b sides CD works? I honestly have no idea here. Perhaps the rules are changed by Doncamatic.

November 13 is when he "just started it".

It's now November 21.

Christmas is December 25.

I actually don't doubt he could finish it in time. Plastic Beach was recorded last year. He's recorded a new Blur cd and a new Gorillaz cd this year, before this one. He then recorded a brand new single. This all while he's touring. I realize there are American bands who record while touring and tour constantly. But this doesn't mean that Gorillaz works less hard. What they do is engrossing on a different level - it's like comparing the production of a car to the production of a train. You just can't judge one based on the other. This is not just from fan perceptions - artists who have worked with them on tour have said it's completely different than what they're used to. For example, that one reason Del has limited his affiliation is because he simply does not have the time for it that this particular commitment requires. Phase II also used at least two different replacements for his parts. But part of that was less time commitment and more 'this singer is getting us in a lot of trouble'.

But I digress.

It's possible that his idea of 'finished' is not what we interpret it as. But everything makes it pretty clear that this is a separate body of work, not dependent on anything he's called finished so far.

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...I think my PS2 is broken, which I really do not need right now, because it is still expensive to replace.

While it runs it makes loud noises most of the time. Sort of like a whirring noise mixed with a fan, but more pronounced (in that you can hear it in any part of my house, no exception). Then it either won't run the disc I put in it, or it will pop the disc off and start grinding it against the top. And will keep doing this until it's stopped. Yeah, that doesn't make my discs very happy.

I am hoping against hope that there's a way to fix this, but I have no idea. Any ideas, guys? :(