| Love and Fame By Jade |
| Jade Murdoc Russel 2-D Sheika Noodle Del Satan Draco Other It had been a year already. Sheika and 2-D came back from their honeymoon in time for everything. Murdoc and Jade have been together for six months now. Sheika was also signed into the band to sing with Jade and 2-D. They had the second album coming out and �Mystic� was to be released as a single. The video was to be made today. It would start off with the seven of them animated and then transformed into their human selves during the video. They were to shoot in Ireland in the cliffs and waterfalls. Jade also played her guitar in this song. 2-D and Sheika had no real singing part in this song, so they and Murdoc sang the chorus with Jade. They arrived at the cliff first. Each wore three different outfits in the four scenes to give it an effect as they changed scenes. The first scene was on the cliff. Jade and Sheika dressed alike somewhat once more. They both wore their metallic black flares and boots. Sheika had on a see-through purple shirt over a black bra. Jade wore a jade tank top that had Gorillaz written on it in black letters instead of red. 2-D wore his shoot to ill shirt and old dusty blue jeans. Murdoc had on his usual black shirt. Noodle wore black lose fitted pants and a white shirt with a red sun on it. Russel wore his Thing vest just for laughs. The only one who didn�t change was Del, who was standing behind a DJ table. The director had set up a large fan to get a wind effect. After that they changed. There was a green screen put up to do the black sky and black-silver clouds Jade had in mind, which had to be done digitally. When they came back their outfits where entirely different. 2-D had on his #23 shirt. Russel wore his brown pants and shirt, with his shades on. Sheika wore black jeans and black t-shirt that had lucky 13 written in purple metallic letters. Noodle wore her jacket. Jade had black JNCOs with a flame belt and her black tank top (that was a guys) with flames going all around it. Murdoc just threw on his green shirt. They did the scene where Jade did her small scream and Del rising above them at the same time, and then them jumping down from the cliff. While that scene was going on they would digitally put in different colored lightning bolts as well. Then they went to the waterfall and changed one last time. Russel wore his Dark Pop shirt, Noodle wore her usual shorts, 2-D his Virus T shirt, Sheika wore all purple, and Jade wore here black cargo pants and her surf dragon T-shirt, which was navy blue. They were waiting for Murdoc to come out. When he did they were all in for a surprise. He wore black jeans, no shirt, and the red metallic T-shirt. He had it so it was unbuttoned. �Hey sexy!!!� She went up and kissed him. They got into the water but had to put platforms up for Russel, Del, and Noodle. Del because the DJ table couldn�t be under water. Same thing with Russel�s drums. Noodle had to be up to her knees. The other four were fine. None of the electrical equipment was plugged in except those mini microphones you could pin on shirts. They were to make it look like they were playing while really singing. After that they dried off and headed back for the highway. There is where they would �jump� from the cliff into the Geep or Firebird with the roof off. Jade would drive the Firebird with Sheika in the passenger�s seat, and Noodle in the back, while the others were in the Geep with Murdoc driving. They made it look like the jumped onto the vehicles with Del standing in front of them like he was starting a race, which was the idea. Del then disappeared into Russel�s head and then they were off. There was a nice close up on the back of the vehicles to show the smoke coming from the tires. Then while racing they would jump off a twenty-foot ramp and the Firebird would land in front of the Geep nearly missing it. Well that was an accident but they kept it. Near the end they would floor it even more and turn back into cartoon characters and on the last hit ending the song, the cars crash together in the distance making it look like an explosion. They put it all together, starting off with their cartoon selves playing against an animated waterfall. That changed in sections during certain hits of the song to them in the waterfall. Then once again changed to them on the day cliff. Then the dark cliff coming in, then the race. After the explosion of the animated part it would fade out and then back to the cliff where Blizzard and Atlas were standing on the cliff opposite of each other roaring into the black sky. It was the best video yet. But it wasn�t to be released until after their first concert this year. ~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~�~ It had been a month since the video was made. Their first concert was tonight. They were all psyched up about revealing themselves for the first time. Jade, Noodle, and Murdoc were all tuning and retuning their guitars. �Time to go.� One of the people working on the set had come out to let them know they had to get started. They took their places behind the large screen, listening to fans screaming for them. Noodle started by playing �M1A1�, hyping the crowed up even more. 2-D, Jade, and Sheika shared the screeching part together and took certain verses. After �M1A1� was �Mystic�. This was where the screen would fall. They all played a bit nervously but got hyped up from the crowd. Finally the �bo� part came up and the music dropped. On this last hit before the music dropped, the screen fell finally and the lights dimmed. All you could see were dark figures on the stage and flashing white lights. When the music started back up the lights came on and revealed the band. All except Del, who was inside Russel�s mind, and 2-D. 2-D had gone under the stage through a trap door. After �Mystic�, �The Sounder� started playing. At this Jade asked the crowd if they were ready to meet 2-D as D-12 came out saying he was missing. Murdoc acted like he was pissed and then a black curtain appeared as the piano part started playing. When 2-D�s verse came up the curtain fell revealing the singer. Jade and D-12 were down near the end of the stage. When 2-D came out a bunch of girls came flying forward screaming. They heard a loud thud and were ready to run. They continued their concert and finally �Clint Eastwood� came. Instead of D-12 rapping, Jade was rapping Del�s part. After the second chorus started, Del took a microphone and raised it in the air, but he was invisible. Jade turned towards the crowd. �Who�s ready to meet Del?� The crowd went nuts. They rapped the second chorus together as Del appeared to the crowd. They thought they were going to run or something, but instead they just screamed louder. After that Del rapped �Rock Da House� and they finished their concert. They sat in the back in the band room celebrating. �Did you see all those fans go nuts when 2-D came out?� �I heard them over the drums clearly.� �I was ready to run with D-12.� They got their equipment together and went back to the hotel for rest. |
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