Dare (song)

The track features Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder, and is sung by Rosie Wilson (also known as Roses Gabor) as Noodle, with backing vocals from Damon Albarn.

It also reached the top 10 in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Iceland, Ireland, Poland, and New Zealand.

[9] For this song, English vocalist Roses Gabor (birth name Rosemary "Rosie" Wilson) took over the role of Noodle from Miho Hatori, who had previously sung as the character on the first Gorillaz studio album.

Chris Evans stated at the 2006 Brit Awards that the song had initially been titled "It's There", but was changed due to Shaun Ryder's thick Mancunian accent making it sound like "it's dare".

[10][11] In August 2019, Ryder told NME that the claim about the title being changed because of his accent was "an urban myth": Don't forget, I'm dyslexic and I've been writing in text since I was fuckin' four years old.

They are shown performing the song, while Russel reads the newspaper on a toilet directly below and 2-D listens into the room by pressing his ear to the floor.

The video was later recalled from other websites and the final scene was tweaked slightly; Murdoc's Confederate Naval Jack flag was replaced with that of the Jolly Roger.

In the very beginning of the video the Gorillaz' 'reject false icons' statue is shown, which is Pazuzu, the figurine from The Exorcist (1973) and son of the devil.