Gorillaz - 19-2000 (Official Video)
The official music video for the Gorillaz song 19-2000, second single of the self-titled album Gorillaz. It was released on 25 June 2001 along with the single itself and was produced and animated by film production company Passion Pictures.
Synopsis[]
The video opens with the Gorillaz all boarding the Geep, as the word "Gorillaz" is painted onto the background. Murdoc turns the key to start it, and the song begins playing on the radio. He starts off driving, as the song cuts and no longer comes from the radio. Murdoc drives onto and begins to follow a raised road. They do various stunts such as a loop-the-loop and a big jump as 2-D sings along and snaps his fingers. Noodle, voiced by Miho Hatori, sings back-up as Russel Hobbs stares ahead blankly, obviously unenthused. Murdoc intentionally misses the exit marked 'Salvation' and pushes onwards past STOP markings on the road, causing a spacecraft to emerge from behind the church in the distance and chase them down, blowing up a gas station along the way. As the Geep avoids debris (namely flaming tires) from the explosion, they come face-to-face with a giant moose. Murdoc activates a secret mode of the Geep and fires two missiles at the moose, but it sneezes before the missiles hit it. The force is strong enough to make the missiles come hurtling back to earth on top of the Geep. The last shot is one of the Gorillaz looking worse for wear.
Other Versions[]
The Making Of The Video: Realizing The Dream[]
Making Of 19/2000 The Video "Realizing The Dream" (as written on the back cover track listing) is a 3-part Making Of video about the 19-2000 music video included on the Enhanced CD formats of the 19-2000 single. The video compiles 2-D's 19-2000 interview, the Computamatic Edit version of the music video and a short teaser trailer for the music video (which, by itself, is not included in that particular release).
Storyboard[]
The original illustrations made by Jamie Hewlett of the music video, released alongside the storyboards for all other Phase 1 music videos on the Phase One: Celebrity Take Down DVD. Interestingly, the video version of the storyboard cuts out the extended and scrapped ending to the video, present on the original set of drawings but cut, in which Murdoc gets out of the blown-up geep and hits 2-D in the head.
Animatic[]
Also known as the "Computamatic Edit" on the enhanced CD single. Other than the unfinished drawings and animations from the animatic, it doesn't have many notable differences from the final version of the music video. The only real difference is the animatic features an alternated ending where after the car has exploded and come to a stop Murdoc punches 2-D and then gets out of the geep and storms off leaving 2-D looking very angry with fire in his eyes.
Soulchild Remix[]
An alternate version of the music video, for the Soulchild Remix of 19-2000, was also made. This is an edited version of the original video, with no new animation, but with re-cut sequences to sync in with the new backing track and without the Japanese karaoke subtitles.
Murdoc & 2D Re-live 19-2000[]
A short, 22-second-long video with commentary by Murdoc and 2-D was released during the celebration period of the 20th anniversary of the band's debut album on 21 December 2021 on Gorillaz' official social media accounts. This version can be seen here.
An alternate, 16-secong-long version was uploaded to Gorillaz' official YouTube channel that ends before 2-D's dialogue is spoken.
Availability[]
Music Video[]
- VHS releases of the 19-2000 single;
- CD2 of the Rock The House single;
- The Phase One: Celebrity Take Down DVD;
- Certain Enhanced CD editions of the debut album Gorillaz;
- Enhanced CD of Brazilian version of G-Sides;
- DVD edition of the compilation album The Singles Collection 2001-2011;
- Official Gorillaz YouTube channel.
Animatic[]
- Enhanced CD releases of the 19-2000 single;
- The Phase One: Celebrity Take Down DVD;
- Official Gorillaz YouTube channel.
Storyboard[]
- The Phase One: Celebrity Take Down DVD;
- Official Gorillaz YouTube channel.
Soulchild Remix[]
- DVD edition of the compilation album The Singles Collection 2001-2011;
- Unofficial YouTube uploads.
Making Of The Video[]
- Enhanced CD releases of the 19-2000 single;
- Unofficial YouTube uploads.
Murdoc & 2D Re-live 19-2000[]
- Various official social media accounts;
- Official Gorillaz YouTube Channel.
Credits[]
- Directed by: Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland
- Producer: Sophie Byrne
- Executive producers: Andrew Ruhemann/Tom Astor
- Animators: Pete Candeland, Dave Antrobus, Chris Hauge
- Assistant and FX Animators: Dave Burns, Molly Sanderson, Michael Douglas, Rufus Dayglo, Nicola Perkiss
- Tracers: Sam Spacey, Angeline da Silva
- CG Animators: Chris Hemming, Stuart Hall
- Production Coordinator: Martin Wiseman
- Editor: Stuart Hutcheson
Videos[]
Gallery[]
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Trivia[]
- The music video was first screened for the UK press and selected fans on 8 June 2001.[1]
- The Brazilian 'Exclusive Edition' of G-Sides claims to include the Soulchild Remix version of the music video on the back cover. However, this is not actually the case, and the actual CD has the regular version instead.
- In the wake of the September 11th attacksW, Gorillaz were forced to re-edit the video for the US market. Jamie commented:[2]
| “ | We had the video for '19-2000' done ages ago. It was going to be released in America in the next couple of weeks, but because of what happened on September 11, we've had to change loads of stuff that appears in the video. We've got explosions and missiles and stuff blowing up, and MTVW can't show stuff like that at the moment because it's of a sensitive nature. So we have to re-animate half of our video. So '19-2000' will be slightly delayed. | „ |
| ~ Jamie Hewlett on the delay of the US '19-2000' video |
- This version is currently considered "lost media", as no recordings of it are available online.
References[]
- ↑ "The World Is Spinning Too Fast". fans.gorillaz.com (8 June 2001). Archived from the original on 13 April 2003. Retrieved on 25 March 2025.
- ↑ "D12 Monkeys". NME (10 October 2001). Retrieved on 25 March 2025.