I think it's coincidental. The Gorillaz when first set up listed artist Jamie Hewlett as a band member who created the cartoon band characters. Prior to Gorillaz Hewlett was famous for Tank Girl with characters such as Kangaroo/human hybrids. Anarchic animal/human characters are his signature.

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I saw Blur in Dec 1995 at sold out Cardiff arena, then in Feb 1996 at a dumpy club in St Louis, MO with a crowd of barely 200. We were upfront, knew every song & sang along - Damon handed the mic to us on several occasions, then invited for drinks backstage afterwards. BEST NIGHT EVER.

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I would like to remind the world that your success is not dependent on breaking the US market. Blur is a magnificent example of brilliant writing, performance and musicianship (and yet somehow people still bow down to Oasis).

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I was doing workshops with 4th class kids recently and one of the classes had a little cohort of total Blur fanatics

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In the wild, I have seen multiple American Gen Z fanatics of Gorrillaz, learning in the YouTube comments section that there is this other band called Blur that they might enjoy

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