Shaun Ryder explains the story behind Gorillaz' Dare vocal

Shaun Ryder joined the Chris Moyles show this morning and chatted all about how Damon Albarn and he penned the Gorillaz hit DARE. And it's absolutely blown our minds...
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[@AverageArtz]

Love the studio, looks like they are sitting inside an xbox 360 lol.

[@violenceisfun991]

Mate 😂😂

[@discoveryshuttle]

Oh yes, Radio X more like: Radio XBOX

[@thesquadrun8386]

@@discoveryshuttle Underrated comment. I died!

[@SarahTheBreadGod]

666'th like. Murdoc would be proud.

[@nzgkilla]

Thats hilarious lol

[@joeloxig6872]

Say what you want about Shaun but at least he did no arm

[@tomynaumann]

Joe Xigol NEVA DID NO ARM

[@chloemarston]

「one」 lol 😂 love Shaun Ryder he doesn’t give a fk what people say Manchester’s finessed happy Monday’s top band👍🏼😂

[@SofaPop.]

He did a lot of harm when he got drunk

[@kottonkandy0962]

issssss DEHH! is’schuming up, schuming up, is’schuming up... isss deh!

[@spotliker123]

@@SofaPop. woosh

[@skumomcbee1255]

I think alcohol is addicted to this guy.

[@tw3rkonthehaters]

Skumo Mcbee other way around

[@ShadowHwkX7]

@@tw3rkonthehaters r/woooosh

[@tw3rkonthehaters]

ShadowHwkX7 hahaha!! look, an overused joke!

[@ShadowHwkX7]

@@tw3rkonthehaters haha! Look! Using uwu in the name is very original!

[@l0sts0ul89]

@@ShadowHwkX7 Where

[@noibon1873]

we need the story of the 2005 preformance of DARE

[@asleepabyss6679]

Alcohol.

[@origamikatakana]

Alcohol

[@origamikatakana]

Alcohol white light

[@tmac326]

Shit tons of Alcohol

[@jhonki_47]

it would be like.... "I was in Manchester we some lads... and I have been drinking some rounds of whiskey, and one of these lads had some coke...."

[@nandernugget]

That doesn’t explain why he actually sounded good in studio.

[@raccoonchild]

Witchery

[@skxlter5747]

It's called auto tune and voice amplifying

[@_omega420]

Probably helped that we was younger too

[@Strummie]

They just took the best sounding “It’s coming up” and repeated it 6 times. Heavy editing.

[@greenaum]

Er... have you heard any Mondays songs? Say what you want about Shaun's singing, but it's consistent! Never fails to hit whatever it is he's hitting. And nah I don't think the Autotune's been invented that could re-create the gift Shaun Ryder has brought to music.

[@moonlogic1986]

Shaun: "It's dare! Okay, I'm ready to begin!" Damon: "That's a wrap!" Shaun: "Huh?"

[@denisehiggs8938]

The lyrics are ‘it’s there. Also, Noodle sing ‘hold it down there’ Dare just sounds like a better song title than ‘There’

[@LucyWest370]

“Hold it down there” is the only time where noodle sings it like that, the other times she just saying “dare”

[@plutolunaplays]

They probably would’ve called it “That’s What You Do”

[@perf7015]

@@plutolunaplays or probs a couple of unrelated words or numbers knowing gorrilaz

[@TC-vu9wv]

He keeps saying ''that's my story'' because he literally has no idea/can't remember what's going on 95% of the time

[@NoahWalter-tc2hp]

He’s old 😞

[@deeannchesebro]

​@@NoahWalter-tc2hp it's the alcohol

[@tw3rkonthehaters]

mans really saying “dUÆR”

[@blueice735]

ITS DEH

[@billiedeadkid3374]

it DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH

[@holamiyu]

💀

[@pennythecatsalt4154]

Forgot the part where he was drunk during a concert

[@ethandowse9145]

When hasn't Shaun been drunk at a concert

[@thedipperdapper3806]

EES DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH

[@pisserandkisser2078]

wasn’t a concert, it was every concert

[@DerHerrMitR]

This guy must have loads of fun waiting for elevators to take him down.

[@beebopvroop5218]

👏👏👏👏👏

[@TheKingBJ]

so they invited him into the studio and they didn't even tell him what to sing he just went coomin up, coomin up, it dae

[@danielduarte9238]

he always like a drunk man

[@theisbetterthanyou8400]

He would, he's from manchester I believe.

[@Mario-vt2dy]

He's saying it was the first take not an outage because this is what making music really is

[@cleesely]

yeah, just a freestyle while setting the levels

[@kmw5100]

Pretty sure I've heard Shaun spin this a similar but somewhat different way so I believe that the "it's comin' up" bit was definitely something Damon was just like "hey wait, do that again", and was initially never intended as a part of the song in the concept stage. I've heard him say that he did actually say dare or "dere" rather. We can be sure he was definitely too out of it to remember for certain but I'm sure it was something similar. He noted once that the never did no harm bit was taken from a poor attempt at a freestyle on the track, and they just kind of ran with that.

[@asterios4888]

0:53 that's what noddle said as well. noodles told the same story as shaun did

[@Evercreeper]

thought he was gonna ask why he was drunk before the live performance

[@AnchorOfTime]

Ryder saved this song from being called "There"

[@thatoneguychad420]

It's nonsense anyway. Everyone of their songs is just gibberish that they make purposely difficult to understand

[@HOTD108_]

​@@thatoneguychad420Skill issue.

[@asleepabyss6679]

TDTHHH DEYARUEEEEEEEEEURUR EDITHHU DEEEEEEAAAURRRRR

[@arvidtheander9049]

Next i'd like to see him explain that live performance

[@masonrobertstv5917]

He looks like a British alex Jones

[@bisnieto]

and sounds like a british will arnett

[@SatansFire]

Porrim Homestuck

[@StartsWithACee]

he looks like Peter Hook

[@JohnnyMac95]

That "outtake" gave Gorillaz their only ever number-one single

[@neganstains5745]

Bez: Shaun, where's me other maraca? Shaun: It's dere.

[@Poopscipade]

I love reading all the typos in the comments. Shaun seems to have some kind of mush-mouth aura that can even travel through the internet.

[@IlliterateIdiot]

EEEETS DAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRREEEEEEEE

[@rondon1981]

DARRRRREEEEEEEEE

[@alfr_ruiz]

that makes the song so much better

[@pauldavies4119]

please show the full interview

[@shraylo.]

I kinda get a feeling he's lying, he said 'they may tell a different story, but that's my story' He's like Cartman trying to convince himself that he had more of a hand in writing than he did 😂

[@inchiostra6893]

Hmm noodle told the same story he did in a 2005 interview so I think he's being honest

[@pauloricardo-wn6ps]

he's not lying tho

[@puffpuffpassmako]

You do know he's gotten better at English over the years right?

[@kierandonaldson54]

Do you like fishsticks?

[@cleesely]

youre reading into things mate

[@andreytasalmon359]

Imagine a world where dare turned turned to be Bingo

[@plutolunaplays]

What is Bingo?

[@kats.5958]

When I first heard the song before even learning the name of it, I thought he was saying "each day".

[@RAZER6928]

Were fookin flying were fffllllyyyyiiiiinnnnngggg

[@RastaSaiyaman]

LEGEND!

[@partysnaxx]

's comin' up.. 's comin' up... 's comin' up.. _IT DAAAAAAAAAREEEE_

[@Bowzerz9001]

ess comin up ess comin up ess comin up eh daaaaaaaaeeeeeeeeee

[@darthbaldious1332]

Anyone from Shaun's generation knows exactly what's coming up, coming up, coming up, its DARE.... means!

[@plutolunaplays]

?

[@miscellaneousmedia3753]

@@plutolunaplays probably means drugs in the sixties, the high, coming up, coming up, it's there, meaning you hit the peak

[@ndesdsadfd]

@@plutolunaplays When pills are 'comin up' ...

[@wheeliebonus]

@@miscellaneousmedia3753 Not the sixties but the 80's. Look up "Madchester" and Ryder's group "Happy Mondays"

[@st4g095]

Legend has it that he has still never did no harm

[@ixWoodziee]

I can’t listen to him without it reminding me of GTA San Andreas

[@Fishfishfishfishfishfishfishfi]

EIITTTTTT DAYAHHHHH

[@johnslade9751]

I need to see the story behind the live performance of dare

[@gawne87]

I feel like I needed this explanation

[@Wriggs74]

Got to admit that it is one cool tune 😎

[@mb9339]

The only time he sang it sober

[@warshipsatin8764]

i believe it 100%. just look at how many autotuned meme songs there are on the internet of people saying literally anything

[@Lvsca]

Maccer ❤️

[@ryderbusta8245]

I remember this guy says he Loves Maggie in Madd Dogg Mansion

[@HuntChicagoHomes]

IT DEEAAAAAUGHHH

[@distressedmegan3364]

I DIDN’T KNOW IT WAS HIM OML

[@flyfe]

Yeah fookin awesome

[@mattherbert6781]

I could tell he said there from the first time I heard it

[@Nobody-si4mo]

IT'S DEEEEEEEEEH

[@gurrrn1102]

Up and at them!

[@BubbaFishin16]

Eeeee dih no AUERM eeee dih noh AUERM IIIITS DAAAAAARE!

[@chonkehh7832]

ITS DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARE

[@axelgonzalez5844]

Iiiit daaaaaeeeeeeh

[@fezmel]

We love enabling an alcoholic! We got one of the best songs of all time!😊

[@Albanus35]

Omg, I'm so old... =/

[@matbritton6816]

I thought it was about a pill starting to kick in.

[@violenceisfun991]

😂😂

[@matbritton6816]

@@violenceisfun991 it never did no harm

[@tasyalolgiriloveinksans213]

hi guys

[@nneann]

can somebody please explain what he said?

[@Ojdaweedmane]

pretty cool

[@northamsaint]

Had someone disagree with me on this once even after I explained I had seen Shaun on an “Evening with”.

[@Leo-dr4qm]

It dare there I'm coming up

[@harrygreenfeld4964]

Turn on closed captions on this. Hilarious.

[@kokonots]

DaaaaaaaRReee eE eE DARE

[@TheHappyKamper]

You can pretty clearly hear he does say "it's there"

[@ColeEdits]

I WISHHHH people would ask him about his time working on GTA San Andreas... He was fucking hilarious in that... "I'm a fucking raspberry, our P!" ahahaha!

[@tecrubio]

ET DEEEHHH!

[@UELLEPLAYTHATBACK]

*its dahhhhhhhhhhh*

[@champ8605]

It's paprika in up, paprika in up its bear.

[@decker9058]

0:47

[@BolaGatoPraOntem]

Is there

[@toasthead]

ET DAREEEEEE

[@guangyuanwei7771]

Maccer!

[@alexandriaiii84]

LITTLE ULTON SALFORD MANCHESTER LOVE YA SHAUN REPRESENTING THE ENDZ

[@fritz3663]

¿Que dijo?

[@pinbaIlwizard]

it.s dEEEGGGGHHHHHHH

[@NibberKSmooth]

Don't believe him, he was clearly feeling the beat when he said it in 'tune', nice story though.

[@Mooondoggy]

chop any audio up and you can put it in time with a beat mate

[@greasyphilip]

@@Mooondoggy generally not without speeding it up or slowing it down

[@Mooondoggy]

@@greasyphilip Wrong

[@nagualdesign]

@@greasyphilip We have no idea what speed he originally said it, how many times he said it, how much space he left between words, what the pitch of his voice was or any of that. Who's to say they didn't alter the speed? To my ear, they could have taken a single sample of him saying "It's coming up" and just repeated it. They sound indistinguishable to me.

[@Mooondoggy]

@@nagualdesign This is a complete waste of my time, but, 'It's Dare' has a cut between *It's* and *Dare*, whereas 'it's coming up' sounds like it's as it was when recorded. If any of it was sped up you would likely hear it, either in artefacts or in pitch

[@asenetaoliver]

ets deeeeee

[@imakecontent2206]

there dare or yanny

[@truesuce_blehh]

Why does he sound like a pirate?

[@Gambit771]

He doesn't.

[@megafrankenstien8049]

It's DDDDDDEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHRRRRRRRRRRRR

[@cool_sword]

Iz deh

[@eva2602]

eeeeeiiiiitse daaaaaaaeugh

[@ACSP_1188]

Anyone think he sounded like a garage MC when he said "It's dare"??

[@jenwhite8832]

Hmmm...

[@Cacodemon-vk3zt]

Where's Sage ???

[@jasonbennett5279]

and onion

[@RennieAsh]

It's DAEHR!! ... It's DAAEEYYYRRRHHH!!

[@thatoneguychad420]

Dddhheèeeeaahhĥærr

[@teashorts2310]

Guys I think he originally said it's there but they mad it into its dare

[@teashorts2310]

*made*

[@southerndiy1]

Up and at them

[@richeturbo21071982]

Could also say "cut me up"

[@putraradhitya3579]

No one talks about maccer?

[@T-Rex-nm1se]

Oh yeah I remember him. I remember when he said "come on you bunch of wankers" 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂

[@christoroppolo8742]

When in the moment we always default to the energy. Not perfect phonetic phrases. Peace Christo 👽🐕🎶🛸☮️💀🙏

[@ld5704]

Que pasa

[@lifeofpablo2642]

yo!

[@paralite22]

A bit higher A bit higher A bit higher BINGO!

[@maxyourmusic3395]

Who remembers the live show in Harlem? Yeah, that didn't go well.

[@Horse_Puncher]

A drunk man stole the stage.

[@MultiWolfstorm]

Iueeeiuuat daeeeeur

[@joshuamorris412]

Dankpods?

[@Darkrunn]

iz dae

[@paytonyoder6937]

Bit higher bit higher bit higher bingo

[@kotsaris87]

Didn't know Microsoft Excel has its own studio