21/07/2026
Chris loves Gorillaz. He thinks your kids, or your pupils, will love them too... Here’s why. 🎶🎸
💿 Contemporary Sound
We’ll put it this way: Classical songs are rarely recounted as a starting point for a person’s musical journey!
Gorillaz have a wonderful, playful quality to their music, which seems both progressive and yet very simple at the same time.
Their sound doesn’t feel like it’s been designed to be very challenging or exclusive to certain listeners, but instead is very accessible and inviting.
🤝 Collaboration
A core premise of the whole Gorillaz project is the collaborations with other musicians. If you look at any of their albums, you’ll see there’s a new musician that they’re teaming up with on practically every other song.
This can bring people down interesting musical paths so that the listener now has a basis to discover these new artists outside of their appearance on a Gorillaz song.
🥰 Clean and Positive Lyrics
We often have trouble trying to find clean, modern songs to use in our music programme. Thankfully, the Gorillaz discography is full of child-friendly tracks.
Not only are they clean, but often the song themes have poignant or positive messages.
For example, ‘We Got The Power’ about encouraging unity among people, whilst ‘Dare’ is all about dancing and letting go of your inhibitions.
🎨 Mixed Art Forms
Gorillaz was created by musician, Damon Albarn, and artist Jamie Hewlett. The project combines fun music with exciting cartoon visuals - it’s not just a band, it’s an entire universe, with entire storylines and characters to enjoy.
This kind of world-building can really expand the kids’ perceptions of what’s possible with music, creating enriched experiences that they’ll fondly remember.
You can read more, and get some song recommendations over on our blog! Link in bio 💃
