El Mañana ("The Tomorrow" in Spanish) is the seventh track and fourth single (alongside "Kids With Guns") on Gorillaz' 2005 album, Demon Days.
Information[]
The song was released on April 10, 2006 in the UK as a double A-side and is the final singles from their album Demon Days. "El Mañana" along with its other A-side "Kids With Guns" reached number 27 upon its release in the UK, a significantly lower position than its predecessors.
Recording[]
In the autobiography Rise Of The Ogre, Noodle mentions that "El Mañana" was one of the last songs to be written for Demon Days. She describes the track as the mid-point of the record, providing "the calm at the centre of the storm".
The beat came about when Russel accidentally sat on his drum machine, giving the song its erratic percussion.[1]
El Mañana - Bananaz Recording Sessions[]
Music Video[]
- Main Article: El Mañana (Video)
In the U.S., El Mañana is blocked/banned. The reasoning is unknown. "El-Mañana" was a full-budget video from Passion Pictures, directed by Jamie Hewlett and Pete Candeland. It was released on March 11, 2006. The video is a continuation of the "Feel Good Inc." video. Noodle is floating along peacefully in the sunshine on her floating island. Suddenly, two helicopters (resembling the RAH-66 Comanche) catch up to the island and begin to fire upon Noodle with machine guns. As Noodle flees into the windmill, the helicopters smash into the sails and destroy them. When Noodle comes out of the windmill, the windmill is now in flames from the onslaught of the attacking helicopters, and the ground, once lush, green and full of life, is now barren and empty. The helicopter pilots see her and start to attack again, and she is forced back inside the windmill. The stricken island then starts to lose altitude and falls down into a canyon. Then one of the two helicopters drops a bomb and they fly off. Though it may appear that Noodle is seen parachuting to safety during the crash sequence at 3:27 of the video, the parachute-like object is actually a shrub that is torn from the ground to the left of the windmill as it falls towards the earth, as seen at 3:21.
Lyrics[]
Summer don't know me no more
He got mad, tiresome
Summer don't know me
He just left me low in myself
'Cause I do know Lord
From you then, just dyin'...
I saw that day
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine
Don't stop the bud when it comes
It's the dawn, you'll see
Money won't get there
Ten years past and now you'll flee
If you do that, I'll be a song to find you
I saw that day
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine
I saw that day
Lost my mind
Lord, I'm fine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine
Maybe in time, you'll want to be mine
Video[]
Trivia[]
- "El Mañana" is, ironically, Noodle's favourite song on Demon Days[2]
- At some point before its release, this track was titled "Maybe In Time". [3][4]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Gorillaz. Page 196 Rise of the Ogre. Penguin Group. Published 26 October 2006.
- ↑ "Gorillaz Interview Kit", located at 2:13. Lily Townsend (26 June 2019). Retrieved on 3 January 2025.
- ↑ Gorillaz – Demon Days – CD (Album, Promo), 2005 [r7926263] | Discogs
- ↑ "gorillaz, Pop animado y rebelde", Los Inrockuptibles Argentina, June 2005 issue