![]() ![]() After disappointing sales for their previous album Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife returned Blur to prominence in the UK, helped by its four hit singles: 'Girls & Boys', 'End of a Century', 'Parklife' and 'To the End'. cover THIS WEEK of all weeks it has been easy to forget what a daft, wonderful thing pop music can be. Blur : Album : Parklife listening party on 22:00 TimsTwitterListeningParty. Parklife Parklife is the third studio album by the English rock band Blur, released on 25 April 1994 on Food Records. In less than 24 hour of upload, the video gathered more than 270,000 views (shown below). Blur - Parklife Reviewed by NME, April 1994. On November 10th, Russell Brand released a self-parody music video in which he sings about anti-consumerism and class strife to a cover performance of "Parklife" by the Irish comedy hiphop duo The Rubberbandits. Taylor Parkes marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Blur's Parklife by exploring the album in the context of the huge changes wrought on British life in the mid to late 90s by Britpop, Blair and the death of Princess Diana. Throughout that week, several news sites reported on the #Parklife hashtag phenomenon, including BuzzFeed, The Independent, Express, Metro and Reason. By November 5th, Brand himself had presumably embraced the joke with the following tweet: Within the first 24 hours, the Vines accumulated more than 200,000 plays. On November 4th, Viner Alan White posted a mashup video featuring select footage from Brand's BBC Newsnight interview and the original music video for Blur's "Parklife" (shown below). Within the first 48 hours, the title of the song was mentioned more than 10,000 times on Twitter, according to Topsy Analytics. Shortly after Barker's tweet went live, many Twitter users in the UK began tweeting "Parklife!" at the 39-year-old British actor-comedian's account and the joke quickly caught on among the anti-fans of the comedian as well as the fans of the 90s' Britpop band Blur. In the first 48 hours, the tweet gained over 8,100 retweets and 5,700 favorites. On October 14th, 2014, Random House published Brand’s political commentary book Revolution, which advocates a social revolution to bring about an end to "corporate tyranny, ecological irresponsibility and economic inequality." On November 2nd, British marketing consultant Dan Barker posted a quote from the book, noting that it reminded him of actor Phil Daniels’ narration from Blur's 1994 hit single “Parklife” (shown below). #Parklife is a hashtag inspired by the memorable narration featured in Blur's 1994 eponymous hit single and coined by British marketing consultant Dan Barker to make fun of British actor-comedian Russell Brand's tendencies to derail into anti-authoritarian tirades in his public appearances and interviews. Celebrity, twitter, parody, music video, hashtag, blur, russell brand, parklife ![]()
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