"Humility" is a single by British

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Gorillaz featuring American jazz guitarist

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. It was released on 31 May 2018 along with "Lake Zurich" as the first single from their sixth studio album, ''

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''. On 12 July 2018, two remixes of the song by

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and

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were released. It charted in a total of 8 countries reaching number 85 on the US Billboard Hot 100, with its highest position in any chart being number 7 in Billboard's

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Promotion and release

The song was first announced on 30 May 2018 when

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confirmed ''The Now Now''s release and stated that Damon Albarn would be debuting the song on the Beats 1 program the following day. The next day, the song debuted with a music video featuring Jack Black and was digitally released along with another single, "Lake Zurich". On 13 May 2022, the music video was re-uploaded to the Gorillaz

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channel with commentary from virtual band member

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Music video

The music video for the song was filmed in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California and features Jack Black. It begins with footage of 2-D roller-skating around Venice Beach interspersed with shots of Black playing a guitar. This sequence appears multiple times throughout the video, mainly in between the appearances of the different Gorillaz members. After the opening sequence,

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is shown checkmating

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, one of the producers for ''The Now Now'' and the voice actor of Russel, during a round of chess. Ace Copular (who replaced

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while the latter was incarcerated) is then seen observing two men play basketball in front of a mural of

. When the ball lands in his hands after a successful dunk by one of the players, he deflates it using a pocket knife, making it impossible for the game to continue. After this, various video clips of local residents are shown. Near the end of the video, Russel can be seen standing on the side of the boardwalk. When 2-D skates in his direction, he extends his leg and trips him. When 2-D recovers, his white eyes turn black, and he attempts to skate again, only to end up falling. The video was produced by

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in collaboration with Blinkink and Ruffian, with rotoscoping by Trace VFX. It was directed by Gorillaz co-creator

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and co-directed by Tim McCourt, Max Taylor, and Evan Silver.

Remixes

On 12 July 2018, a single containing two remixes of the song by British indie pop band

and German EDM producer

was released. The Superorganism remix adds lead singer Orono Noguchi's voice to the song along with a snippet of rap lyrics from another Gorillaz song, Clint Eastwood, while the DJ Koze remix is mostly instrumental.

Personnel

* Damon Albarn – vocals, synthesizer, guitar, additional drum programming *

– guitar, additional vocals * James Ford – bass guitar, synthesizer, drums *

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– percussion, drum programming *John Davis – mastering engineer *Mark DeCozio – additional engineering *Samuel Egglenton – engineering assistant * Stephen Sedgwick – mixing engineer, recording engineer, engineering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

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