Home | Songs By Year | Songs from 2020


Pac-Man (Gorillaz song)

Buy Pac-Man (Gorillaz song) now from Amazon

First, read the Wikipedia article. Then, scroll down to see what other TopShelfReviews readers thought about the song. And once you've experienced the song, tell everyone what you thought about it.

Wikipedia article




{{Infobox song

| name = Pac-Man

| cover = GorillazPacMan.png

| alt =

| border = yes

| type = single

| artist = Gorillaz featuring Schoolboy Q

| album = Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez

| language =

| released =

| recorded = January 2020

| studio = Studio 13

| genre =

* Funk

* hip hop

* G-funk

* downtempo

| length = 3:13

| label =

| writer =

| producer =

| chronology = Gorillaz

| prev_title = Friday 13th

| prev_year = 2020

| next_title = Strange Timez

| next_year = 2020

| misc =

}}

"'Pac-Man'" (stylised as "'PAC-MAN'") is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz featuring American rapper Schoolboy Q. The track was released on 20 July 2020 as the sixth single for Gorillaz' seventh studio album, 'Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez', and the fifth episode of the 'Song Machine' project, a web series involving the ongoing release of various Gorillaz tracks featuring different guest musicians over the course of 2020.

Background



The song was recorded in London, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was released to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the arcade game, 'Pac-Man'.

Music video



The video, directed by Jamie Hewlett, Tim McCourt, and Max Taylor, features the band members inside Kong Studios, the band's fictional headquarters. 2-D is in the game room playing the 'Pac-Man' arcade game, Russel does some boxing with a punching bag, Murdoc is in the basement, sitting inside an orgone accumulator, and Noodle is on the recording studio couch with her mobile phone while Schoolboy Q records his verse. As 2-D continues to play the arcade game for nine hours, all of his bandmates feel the effects of the arcade game, such as Murdoc looking outside his accumulator, Russel pausing from punching as though he heard something, and Noodle changing art styles, switching to an anime-esque style and then a 'Peanuts'-like character. Eventually at the end of the video, Noodle goes down to the game room and unplugs the 'Pac-Man' arcade game, leaving 2-D confused.

The video incorporates many references to the arcade game, including:

* The arcade cabinet artwork is sightly redrawn with Murdoc as the ghost and 2-D as Pac-Man.

* Murdoc is wearing 'Pac-Man' underwear.

* The arcade game portrays the band members as 8-bit characters, with 2-D as Pac-Man and Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde replaced with the faces of Murdoc, Russel, and Noodle.

Track listing



Personnel



'Gorillaz'

* Damon Albarn vocals, backing vocals, instrumentation, director, keyboards, bass, guitar, synthesizer, drums, percussion

* Jamie Hewlett artwork, character design, video direction

* Remi Kabaka Jr. percussion, drums

'Additional musicians and personnel'

* Schoolboy Q vocals

* Prince Paul backing vocals, engineering

* John Smythe guitar

* Weathrman bass, keyboards, synthesizer

* Stephen Sedgwick mixing engineer, engineering

* Samuel Egglenton engineering

* John Davis mastering engineer

* Elvin "Wit" Shahbazian engineering

Charts



References



Category:2020 songs

Category:2020 singles

Category:Gorillaz songs

Category:Songs written by Damon Albarn

Category:Songs written by Remi Kabaka Jr.

Category:Parlophone singles

Category:Warner Records singles

Category:Pac-Man

Category:Funk songs

Category:G-funk songs

Category:Downtempo songs

Category:Electropop songs

Category:Schoolboy Q songs

Category:Songs written by Prince Paul (producer)

Category:Songs written by Schoolboy Q

Category:Song Machine

Category:Music based on video games

Category:Songs about fictional characters

Buy Pac-Man (Gorillaz song) now from Amazon

<-- Return to songs from 2020



This work is released under CC-BY-SA. Some or all of this content attributed to http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1069903961.