Rock It (Gorillaz song)

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"Rock It"

Music video by Gorillaz
from the album Phase Two: Slowboat to Hades
Released	2004-12-08 2006-10-30 (DVD)
Recorded	Kong Studios
Genre	Rock
Length	3:44
Label	Parlophone
Writer(s)	Gorillaz
Producer(s)	Gorillaz, Danger Mouse, Jason Cox, James Dring
Phase Two: Slowboat to Hades track listing
	"Rock It" (3)	"Feel Good Inc." (2)

"Rock It" is a song by virtual band Gorillaz. This video was released exclusively as a promo video on the band's website on December 8, 2004. Unlike the other Gorillaz videos, which were produced by Passion Pictures, Rock It was made by Jamie Hewlett's own company, Zombie Flesh Eaters. The video was released the same day Kong Studios reopened, and is the first official music video of Phase Two: Slowboat To Hades. It is also the only song to be made as a music video to not be released as a single, and is the only Phase Two video not released from the Demon Days album.

The video itself is a tribute to the 1973 horror film The Exorcist. It begins with a close up of the eerie face of Pazuzu, the demon statue from the beginning of The Exorcist. The camera reels back to reveal a red sun shining over the statue, when vines spring forth. We then cut to Gorillaz, walking near Kong Studios in the graveyard. As 2D sings, zombie heads pop up and land on the ground below them. The heads are a direct reference to Terry Gilliam's stream-of-consciousness photo-montage animations in the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus (complemented by texts in the similar style), and seem to look like sell-out celebrities. The band apparently neither cares nor notices these heads and continues to walk on. When the chorus begins, we zoom up to the Pazuzu statue, who says Rock it over and over while 2D sings. This repeats twice more until the third time, where Pazuzu says the words as we slowly reel back, quite alot of the song's lyrics consists of "bla bla". Also, we can note that 2-D's eyes are strangely white in this.

The video was the beginning of the Reject False Icons campaign.