Gorillaz "Demon Days" [2005]

If there was ever a good time to make illegal the use of sampled loops by people who didn't know how to control them, it was the mid-Aughts, when snotty Brit junkies Gorillaz decided they'd infect the CD-buying public with their preciously gag-inducing mix of Coldplay-meets-hip-hop. Imagine Beck with even less shame and a douchey English accent to get the idea of what "Demon Days" sounds like. Digging their hole deeper is the inclusion of washed-up rappers like De La Soul; they coldly calculated that white kids wouldn't have the slightest idea what counted as hip in the 'hood anyway. Besides, nothing apparently was going to help Blur's morose limey Damon Albarn cheer up any, which he also probably calculated was fine, because getting happy would have probably hurt his street cred with other mopey transplanted Londoners like Morrissey. Why anyone outside the UK would give a crap about any of this is hard to understand, unless Gen-X'ers are actually so latently racist they'd rather hear sad, boring white party music than actually have to pay attention to anyone with darker skin than their own. Even worse, Gorillaz created all these fake cartoon characters to represent the band members. Fuck being scared of black people; Gorillaz fans clearly are uncomfortable with the very concept of reality.