“Baby Queen” by Gorillaz

"Baby Queen" took the scenic route: it first turned up in the FIFA 23 video game in September 2022, then went out that November as the third single from Cracker Island, the eighth Gorillaz album. Frontman Damon Albarn got it from a dream about a 1997 Blur show, the one where a 14-year-old Princess Siribha Chudabhorn left her throne beside the mixing desk during "Song 2" and stage-dived into the crowd. As he told the Los Angeles Times, the song relives that dream, with Albarn back at the gig as 2-D and the princess grown up, the two of them spending time together.

Albarn wrote it with Greg Kurstin, who co-produced with the band and Remi Kabaka Jr. and played almost everything else, from bass, drums and electric guitar to piano, vibraphone and synths. Mark "Spike" Stent mixed.

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