Russell Brand Twitter Parklife Revolution - Russell Brand "wanted to kill someone" Alan Carr
Russell Brand has revealed he was so annoyed about the Parklife meme over his book Revolution that he "wanted to kill someone".
It all kicked off when a Twitter user compared his flowery use of speech to the famous Blur song Parklife - and led to thousands of Twitter users writing "Parklife" under every tweet Russell posted from then on.
Speaking on Alan Carr: Chatty Man, Russell said: "First of all I wondered what is that? What does that mean? Then I looked at it and thought 'that's people digging me out because I'm using long words with my accent', and then there was a bit where I wanted to kill someone.
"Then I thought, hold on a minute - I'm a troublemaker, a mischief maker, embrace that, that's a right laugh - don't take life too seriously, soon we'll all be down in the grave. No-one's said nothing snidey to me this whole time."
But Russell defended his book, saying that he has "never felt more happy [than I do] at this time".
"I've never felt more connected to people," he mused. "Being involved in campaigns to help people with their housing, helping people get reasonable pay and that, I really enjoy it. I'm not saying I'm perfect, I'm just like, all I'm doing is the thing that I can do - if I write a book and people read it, that's a positive thing.
"I still wanna have a laugh. I don't know because I'm not putting myself forward as any sort of leader, I'm just a bloke from Essex who's being given a chance and what's to do something worthwhile with it, that's all."
Alan Car: Chatty Man airs tonight at 10pm on Channel 4 - and to find out more about the whole Parklife story, scroll down...
On Monday 10 November 2014, we wrote...Oh, you've got to love Russell Brand - he's quick, we'll give him that. After being mocked on the internet with #PARKLIFE, he has now responded in an excellent way.
It all started when user Dan Barker tweeted: "Russell Brand's writing feels like someone is about to shout "PARKLIFE!" at the end of every sentence", referring of course to the legendary Blur song.
Well, Russell has now poked fun at himself by creating a parody of the track, and he even sings. The short track was produced, mixed and mastered by the Rubberbandits and contains a sample of Parklife by Blur.
Watch it here…
The Internet can be a funny place sometimes. But one of the funniest things to emerge this week (apart from #alexfromtarget, of course) is Russell Brand and "PARKLIFE!"
The new Twitter trend was started after user Dan Barker tweeted "Russell Brand's writing feels like someone is about to shout "PARKLIFE!" at the end of every sentence", referring of course to the legendary Blur song Parklife, where a pompous lyric is read out, with Damon Albarn immediately shouting "Parklife!"
We have to say, we think Dan's observation is spot on. Just look at the extract Dan posted from Russell's book Revolution. Flowery and overly verbose or what?
"This attitude of churlish indifference seems like nerdish deference contrasted with the belligerent antipathy of the indigenous farm folk, who regard the hippie-dippie interlopers, the denizens of the shimmering tit temples, as one fey step away from transvestities". It all sounds very impressive, but the same message could have been conveyed with half the word count, eh, Russ?
Dan later tweeted a kind-of apology - but we think he loved being the one to start the trend.
Obviously getting a bit sick of everything he wrote receiving the answer "PARKLIFE!" (even some reviews of his book on Amazon), Russell retorted: "It's weird how highly paid, privately educated journalists who work for the corporate media attack my book Revolution."
There is even a vine. We love it.
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If you have no idea what anyone is talking about because you didn't grow up listening to Blur, listen to Parklife below.
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