The “one demand” Stevie Nicks made while working with Gorillaz

By editorial board on September 19, 2023

Nicks contributed vocals to Gorillaz’s 2023 single ‘Oil’ from their album Cracker Island.

The album  features the band’s recent Tame Impala and Bootie Brown collaboration, “New Gold,” as well as guest artists, including Beck, Bad Bunny, Thundercat, and Nicks, who appear on the track called “Oil.” (Americansongwriter)

Appearing in the clip, she told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 (via NME), was her "one demand" for collaborating with Damon Albarn in the eclectic project. “That’s how I know about the Gorillaz," she said. Because of all their crazy cartoon videos. …

“I love  'Oil’  so much,” Nicks told Zane Lowe in 2022. “But this is the only thing I asked for. If you make a video of this, because that’s how I know about the Gorillaz is because of all their cartoon videos, I want to be in the ‘Oil’ video. I want to be a Gorilla, and I wanna have like big false eyelashes… I wanna have blonde hair, right? So that’s what I said. This is my one ‘demand’ that I will make, so they’re doing it as we speak.”

Nicks eventually got her wish, appearing in cartoon form alongside the other digital members of the band in the visualiser for ‘Oil’. She didn’t quite get the big false eyelashes that were part of her deal, but Nicks does have the blonde hair she requested. The final result is a mix between Nicks’ 1970s persona and the crooked style of Gorillaz artist Jamie Hewlett.

Stevie Nicks enthused about being an "honorary" member of Gorillaz: both singing on the virtual band’s upcoming song "Oil" and popping up — in animated form — in the music video.

 

Stevie Nicks has collaborated with Gorillaz on a new track called “Oil” for their upcoming album Cracker Island, out February 24, 2023. Other artists involved in the project include Thundercat, Adeleye Omotayo, Tame Impala, Bootie Brown, Bad Bunny, and Beck.

“I think that song, Nicks added,  is like somewhere between love and war because when it’s on like, ‘interlocking cluster bombs,’ right? And then there’s like, ‘fill it up with love’ — my favourite part,” Nicks added. “It’s going from interlocking cluster bombs to fill it up with love, and I’m like somehow this clever songwriter… moulded these two sides of this, and I’m going like, ‘Is there a touch of Ukraine in here?’ I know, maybe, maybe not. Who knows. But [with] the whole ‘fill it up with love,’ I can still be this person.”

Formed by English musicians Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett in 1998, Gorillaz consists of four fictional band members drawn in the likeness of comic strip characters.

In a recent interview with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, Nicks said she was excited to become an “honorary Gorilla” while working with the Damon Albarn- and Jamie Hewlett-led band of four fictional characters and musicians.

“Well, I have to tell you, it was really great,” said Nicks. “Because  ‘Cracker Island’ co-producer Greg Kurstin sent [the song] to me. I call Greg back, and I go, ‘Oh, I think this is now our new favorite song, and I haven’t even sung on it yet. But yes, I would love to do this.'”

 

Nicks added, “I learned that song as if I had written that song and as if I was an Englishman, with that accent. And I love it so much.”

 

Speaking about the upcoming Gorillaz album, the band’s first since Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez in 2020, guitarist Noodle said, “‘Cracker Island’ is the sound of change and the chorus of the collective.” Drummer Russel Hobbs added, “When the reckoning comes, gotta be ready to step through the gateway. Cracker Island’s got the entry codes…”.

 

She added, “I can’t wait till it comes out because I’m so proud of it. Now, I was an honorary Heartbreaker. I was an honorary Foo Fighter. And now, I’m an honorary Gorilla. I’m so happy.”

 

 

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