Gorillaz — Lyric Analysis

LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 132 songs across 9 albums by Gorillaz. They use 3,402 unique words out of 14,198 (lexical richness MATTR 0.63), with an average of 108 content words per song. Emotional tone: 8% of songs positive, 84% neutral, 8% negative.

Most used words by Gorillaz

1. ape (158)
2. know (118)
3. love (115)
4. po (104)
5. light (88)
6. time (86)
7. money (85)
8. world (74)
9. coming (73)
10. take (73)
11. see (72)
12. day (72)
13. back (70)
14. little (68)
15. say (67)
16. alone (63)
17. come (62)
18. good (62)
19. life (61)
20. sun (61)

Signature phrases

• “stop money stop” (33)
• “money stop money” (31)
• “cha charger” (27)
• “little skinny little” (24)
• “skinny little skinny” (24)
• “jellyfish superfast jellyfish” (22)
• “sha ba ca” (20)
• “ba ca feel” (20)
• “sha sha ba” (20)
• “ca feel good” (20)

Colors in the lyrics

• white (42)
• black (26)
• gold (23)
• blue (17)
• red (14)
• green (13)
• silver (7)
• yellow (5)

Albums analyzed

• Gorillaz (2001)
• Demon Days (2005)
• Plastic Beach (2010)
• The Fall (2010)
• Humanz (2017)
• The Now Now (2018)
• Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez (2020)
• Cracker Island (2023)
• The Mountain (2026)