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Gorillaz

MLS

Release date: 23rd October 2020

From Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
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About This Track

JPEGMAFIA and CHAI join Gorillaz on a track that moves between confrontation and levity. JPEGMAFIA's verses arrive with swagger and edge, moving from boasts about his own resilience to pointed critiques of industry gatekeepers and hangers-on. The production sits somewhere between trap and something looser, giving him room to spit without constraint. CHAI's presence is the counterweight. Their chorus floats above the verses in a higher register, mixing English and Japanese, anchoring the track around the phrase "super gorilla" and a kind of playful defiance. There's a lightness to their delivery that keeps the whole thing from settling into pure aggression; the repeated refrain "it's so fun" suggests this is as much about pleasure as it is about proving a point.

"MLS" is a track by Gorillaz, from the album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, released 23rd October 2020. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Gorillaz.

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Gorillaz

Lyrics

MLS

[Chorus: CHAI]

Do you know what a beautiful creature

How happy you look?

Do you know what a lazy culture of gorilla?

会いたい自分

ちょっと臭い it's so fun

いい感じ beautiful day

ちょっと臭い it’s so fun

いい感じ beautiful day

Super gorilla

[Verse 1: JPEGMAFIA & CHAI]

How you gon' tell me how to do and how to do it? (Yeah)

Maneuver with this Ruger, these bullets is for the hoopers

You niggas is stupid, Peggy been broke for a long time (For real)

Only dirty niggas around me like my own kind (Grr)

I feel like Tom Jones, (Huh) I feel like Dev Hynes (Yeah)

I got a fresh Gat', I test the new iron

Hold me, chains on my neck like a slave

Fuck a will, better bury me with an O in my grave

(Super gorilla)

I got too much to say, labels tried docking my pay

I’m like, "Ooh"

Compress me or check me, I'm Peggy Bae

Divine, feel like I'm blessed but I never pray

Twisting at my shows, niggas think I'm doing ballet, uh

I wish a nigga would claim that I'm a phase

I'm a wave, (Wave) sayin' that shit that you scared to say (Shit)

(It's nasty)

[Break: CHAI]

Gorilla, this is [?]

Gorilla

Super gorilla

[Verse 2: JPEGMAFIA & CHAI]

Clean house, clean bathwater, and clean mind

I’m such a positive nigga, throw up a peace sign

Get to the bridge, give ’em lead time

They be gunning for me (Gunning for me)

Put on a face for the critics 'cause they beneath me (Oh, oh, facts)

Never met an A&R that I wanted to be (It’s so fun)

Begging for plus ones drink tickets and VIP (いい感じ beautiful day)

These niggas get fat blow money, and lose beefs (Super gorilla)

It's tragic, shake my head when I hit the ballot (Yeah)

Shake my head, niggas got more money than talent

Mmmm, niggas know I shoot above the average (Pssht)

Young Peggy keep whippin' wiggas till I kick the casket

(Super gorilla)

They think I'm fixing matches, the scope came with attachments (Yee)

We at your house, we staking out, we eating rations

Expensive habits, it’s gas

I told that bitch to jump the ship, only room for the captain

(It's nasty)

[Chorus: CHAI]

Super gorilla

It's so fun

いい感じ beautiful day

Super gorilla

Ha, ha, ha, ha-ha-ha-ha

Ha, ha, ha, ha-ha-ha-ha

Super gorilla

[Outro: JPEGMAFIA & CHAI]

Ooh

Thinkin' bout ooh

Thinkin' bout ooh

Thinkin' bout ooh, thinkin' bout ooh

Thinkin' bout ooh

Thinkin' bout ooh

Thinkin' bout ooh

(Super gorilla)

Gorilla, this is [?]

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From Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez

2020
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Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
Gorillaz
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2020
  1. —How Far?
  2. —Opium
  3. —With Love to an Ex
  4. —The Valley of the Pagans
  5. —MLS
  6. —The Lost Chord
  7. —Dead Butterflies
  8. —The Pink Phantom
  9. —Strange Timez
  10. —Pac-Man
  11. —Chalk Tablet Towers
  12. —Friday 13th
  13. —Aries
  14. —Momentary Bliss
  15. —Désolé
  16. —Simplicity
  17. —Severed Head

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Production & Engineering

Writer
Damon Albarn, JPEGMAFIA, KANA (CHAI), MANA (CHAI), Remi Kabaka Jr., YUNA (CHAI), YUUKI (CHAI)
Producer
Gorillaz, Remi Kabaka Jr.
Engineer
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Drums
YUNA (CHAI)
Guitar
Damon Albarn
Keyboards
Damon Albarn, MANA (CHAI)
Vocals
JPEGMAFIA, KANA (CHAI), MANA (CHAI), YUNA (CHAI), YUUKI (CHAI)
Drum Programmer
Damon Albarn, Remi Kabaka Jr.
Mastering Engineer
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Melodica
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Mixing Engineer
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