Feel Good Inc.

"Feel Good Inc." is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz, featuring American hip-hop group De La Soul. The song was released as the lead single from the band's second studio album Demon Days on 9 May 2005. The single peaked at No. 2 in the United Kingdom and Europe and No. 14 in the United States. "Feel Good Inc." made the US Billboard year-end top songs chart in 2005 and 2006. It also topped Billboard's Alternative Songs chart in the U.S. for eight consecutive weeks, a first for the band. This is the only song in Damon Albarn's career to reach the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. It peaked in the top 10 in 17 countries, reaching No. 1 in Spain and Greece. "Feel Good Inc." has been certified platinum in Australia and double-platinum in the United Kingdom.

"Feel Good Inc."
Single by Gorillaz featuring De La Soul
from the album Demon Days
B-side
  • "Spitting Out the Demons"
  • "Bill Murray"
  • "68 State"
Released9 May 2005
Recorded2004
Genre
Length
  • 3:42 (album version)
  • 3:28 (radio edit)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Gorillaz singles chronology
"Lil' Dub Chefin'"
(2002)		 "Feel Good Inc."
(2005)		 "Dare"
(2005)
De La Soul singles chronology
"Rock Co.Kane Flow"
(2004)		 "Feel Good Inc."
(2005)		 "Thou Shalt Always Kill"
(2009)
Audio sample
  • file
  • help
Music video
"Feel Good Inc." on YouTube

The song was listed in Pitchfork Media and Rolling Stone's Best Songs of the 2000s. It was nominated for three Grammys at the 2006 Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year, but winning for Best Pop Collaboration.[4] Popdose ranked it 26th on their list of 100 best songs of the decade.[5]

Music video

The main themes of the video are intellectual freedom and the media's dumbing down of mass culture.[6]

At the beginning of the video, the camera rises up to the top of the Feel Good Inc. tower, and a sample of the Spacemonkeyz dub of "Clint Eastwood", entitled "A Fistful of Peanuts", can be heard. The camera focuses into the tower, where 2-D yearns for the freedom to join Noodle on her floating island. The characters lying on the floor represent those who have already been "dumbed down", while the band members are the ones who have awakened. 2-D is trying to wake all the people from their half-dead state by yelling at them through his megaphone, in the style of a political activist.[7] The floating island is chased by ominous helicopters, which closely resemble Korean War era Bell H-13s, monitoring the behaviour inside and ensuring that no one escapes. It is unclear whether they are preventing Noodle's escape or are chasing her away.[8] Back in the tower, De La Soul appear as larger-than life, seemingly omnipotent images on surrounding television screens, laughing at the Gorillaz band members.[9] Their taunting drives 2-D into a wild, hypnotic frenzy as he tries to resist the urge to be dumbed down. At the end of the video, 2-D, beaten by his surroundings, returns to the state he was in when the video began, repeating the words "Feel good" until the video finally ends, in an exact reversal of the intro. The repetition of "Feel good" represents that 2-D is convincing himself that everything is OK (as if he is brainwashing himself to believe it), instead of facing the harsh truth of the situation.[10] The music video for "El Mañana" is a continuation of this video, depicting two helicopter gunships catching up to Noodle's floating windmill island and attacking it.

Jamie Hewlett said in an interview that the inspiration for some scenes in the video came from Hayao Miyazaki; specifically, the windmill-powered landmass, which has been compared to that of Miyazaki's Castle in the Sky.[11]

Usage in media

The track was included in the respective soundtracks of SingStar Pop, Dance Dance Revolution Hottest Party 3, DJ Hero, Guitar Hero 5, Fantasia: Music Evolved, Grand Theft Auto V, and Watch Dogs: Legion; the single has also been included as downloadable content for the soundtracks of Rock Band and SingStar. Additionally, the track was utilized in one of Apple's "silhouette style" iPod television advertisements.

Track listings

UK CD single

  1. "Feel Good Inc." – 3:42
  2. "Spitting out the Demons" – 5:10

UK DVD single

  1. "Feel Good Inc." (music video) – 4:13
  2. "Spitting out the Demons" – 5:10
  3. "Bill Murray" – 3:51

UK 7-inch single

  1. "Feel Good Inc." – 3:42
  2. "68 State" – 4:48

UK digital download

  1. "Feel Good Inc." – 3:42
  2. "Spitting out the Demons" – 5:10
  3. "Bill Murray" – 3:51

European CD single

  1. "Feel Good Inc." – 3:42
  2. "Spitting out the Demons" – 5:10
  3. "Bill Murray" – 3:51
  4. "Feel Good Inc." (music video) – 4:13

Japanese CD single

  1. "Feel Good Inc." – 3:42
  2. "Spitting out the Demons" – 5:10
  3. "Bill Murray" – 3:51
  4. "Murdoc Is God" – 2:26
  5. "Feel Good Inc." (music video) – 4:13

US digital EP[12]

  1. "Feel Good Inc." – 3:42
  2. "Spitting out the Demons" – 5:10
  3. "Bill Murray" – 3:51
  4. "Dare" (Soulwax remix) – 5:48
  5. "Feel Good Inc." (music video) – 4:13

Personnel

Charts

Sales and certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[59] Platinum 70,000^
Denmark (IFPI Denmark)[60] Platinum 90,000
Italy (FIMI)[61] Platinum 50,000
New Zealand (RMNZ)[62] Gold 5,000*
United Kingdom (BPI)[63] 2× Platinum 1,200,000
United States (RIAA)[64] Gold 500,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Awards and nominations

Awards

Nominations

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