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“El Mañana” is the seventh track on the Demon Days album. The song was released as a single on April 10th, 2006, along with Kids with Guns.

El Mañana is Spanish for “the future” or “the near future”. However, “mañana” by itself can be translated as “Tomorrow”, leaving certain people to believe the title translated to English is “the tomorrow”, despite this being proven false.

In the music video, we see the Windmill Island from Feel Good Inc. being destroyed, and the fictional band member Noodle purposely made to look as if she was deceased.

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What did Gorillaz say about "El Mañana"?
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Here’s a quote from Damon about the song before it came out. Apparently it’s from an interview with Rolling Stone Latin America and translated from Spanish. So it might sound a bit wonky:

There is a new song that’s called “El Mañana”, a Spanish name, and I believe that brings together some ideas. My daughter is going to a Spanish school because I love this culture, I want her to speak in Spanish, and to live with Latin culture, that seems vital to me. And the language has influenced me.

I picked this title because “mañana” in Castilian means many things: the future, the dawn, the morning… it has many levels. It’s a song that’s sad but optimistic, because in order to make something positive you have to move away from the negative. If our present is negative, at some point there’s a duty to try to stop it being that way. We’re not going to sing hymns to naive happiness for this, but the future is our responsibility. And Gorillaz is our contribution to the mañana.

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