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"Friday 13th"
Single by Gorillaz featuring Octavian
from the album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez
Released	9 June 2020 (2020-06-09)
Studio	Studio 13
Genre	Neo R&B trip hop downtempo
Length	3:35
Label	Parlophone Warner
Songwriter(s)	Damon Albarn Octavian Godji Remi Kabaka Jr.
Producer(s)	Gorillaz Kabaka
Gorillaz singles chronology
"How Far?" (2020) "Friday 13th" (2020) "Pac-Man" (2020)
Octavian singles chronology
"Poison" (2020) "Friday 13th" (2020) "Rari" (2020)
Music video
"Friday 13th" on YouTube

"Friday 13th" is a song by British virtual band Gorillaz featuring French-British rapper Octavian. The track was released on 9 June 2020 as the fifth single for Gorillaz' seventh studio album, Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez, and the fourth episode of the Song Machine project, a web series involving the ongoing release of various new Gorillaz singles and music videos featuring different guest musicians over the course of 2020.

Music video

The video, directed by Jamie Hewlett, Tim McCourt, and Max Taylor, was recorded while Gorillaz' virtual members were in quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic and features their likenesses, which are noticeably scarred and bruised which Jamie Hewlett stated was the result of their fight in the music video for "Aries", as well as footage of Octavian performing the track set against footage of moving roads and tunnels. The video ends with a quote from playwright James Baldwin.

Tracklist

Personnel

Gorillaz

• Damon Albarn – vocals, instrumentation, director, bass, keyboards, guitar
• Jamie Hewlett – artwork, character design, video direction
• Remi Kabaka Jr. – drum programming

Additional musicians and personnel

• Octavian – vocals
• John Davis – mastering engineer
• Samuel Egglenton – engineering
• Stephen Sedgwick – mixing engineer, engineering

References

1. "Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez is the finest Gorillaz album in a decade – review". Independent.co.uk. 22 October 2020.
2. ^ "Gorillaz: Season One - Strange Timez: Album review". 18 October 2020.
3. Blistein, Jon (29 January 2020). "Gorillaz Detail New Music, Video Series 'Song Machine'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
4. "Official Everythin' Gorillaz on Instagram: "There is a storyline guys, they started a fight in Aries and then they had to pull themselves together to make the next video. Episode 5 will continue the story, so stay tuned"". Instagram. 10 June 2020. Archived from the original on 25 December 2021. Retrieved 20 July 2020.
5. Blistein, Jon (9 June 2020). "Gorillaz Team Up With Octavian for Woozy New Track 'Friday 13th'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 9 June 2020.

• 2020 songs
• 2020 singles
• Gorillaz songs
• Songs written by Damon Albarn
• Parlophone singles
• Warner Records singles
• Songs written by Remi Kabaka Jr.
• Neo soul songs
• Downtempo songs
• 2020s ballads
• Song Machine