Editing Demon Days (section)

==Background==
While [[Jamie Hewlett]] was working with his team on a script for a possible Gorillaz movie, [[Damon Albarn]] was still recording [[Think Tank (Blur album)|''Think Tank'']] with [[Blur (band)|Blur]]. By the time Albarn was ready to start writing and recording material for the Gorillaz movie, the whole idea had already been scrapped, although ideas from the movie's script were still used, including the themes of being driven by [[Id, ego and super-ego#Ego|ego]] and the world being trapped in an endless night. Despite this, the album's main source of inspiration actually came about as a result of Albarn's train journey from [[Beijing]] to [[Mongolia]] where he, his partner and six-year-old daughter spent a day travelling through what Albarn describes as a "weird, unspoken, forgotten part of China. It was basically dead trees as far as the eye can see." Albarn recalls:
{{quote|Dust bowls, loose earth rapidly turning into desert. There are little satellite towns in the middle of these semi deserts that are absolutely on their knees. And it's the size of Europe this area. And then you wake up in the morning with this nightmare in your head and it's blue sky and beautiful sand, which looks fantastic now but was probably something else millions of years ago. And that will happen to us in our lifetime.<ref name="gorillaz-news.livejournal.com">{{cite web|url=http://gorillaz-news.livejournal.com/96999.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709034459/http://gorillaz-news.livejournal.com/96999.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 July 2012 |title=gorillaz_news: New Damon interview in Notion magazine - talks Gorillaz |publisher=Gorillaz-news.livejournal.com |access-date=19 August 2014 }}</ref><ref name="Making a Gorillaz movie">{{cite web |url=http://www.gorillaz-unofficial.com/article/both.html |title=Website Suspended - Pickaweb |publisher=Gorillaz-unofficial.com |access-date=19 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318041813/http://www.gorillaz-unofficial.com/article/both.html |archive-date=18 March 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rhino.com/article/once-upon-a-time-in-the-top-spot-gorillaz-demon-days|title=Once Upon a Time in the Top Spot: Gorillaz, Demon Days|publisher=[[Rhino Entertainment]]|date=29 May 2015}}</ref>}}

Albarn stated in an interview with [[MTV News]] that "Gorillaz make dark [[Pop music|pop]]; that's what they always set out to achieve. The whole album kind of tells the story of the night — staying up during the night — but it's also an allegory. It's what we're living in basically, the world in a state of night."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Perez|first=Rodrigo|date=5 April 2005|title=Cartoon Gorillaz put a muzzle on Danger Mouse, Damon Albarn|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/1499626/cartoon-gorillaz-put-a-muzzle-on-danger-mouse-damon-albarn/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160214101011/http://www.mtv.com/news/1499626/cartoon-gorillaz-put-a-muzzle-on-danger-mouse-damon-albarn/|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 February 2016|publisher=[[MTV News]]}}</ref>

Hewlett was excited by the prospect of a second Gorillaz album, saying, "Let's repeat the same process, but do it better. Because everyone thought it was a gimmick. If you do it again, it's no longer a gimmick, and if it works then we've proved a point. And instantly, all of us got excited".<ref name="Making a Gorillaz movie"/>