“If I’m honest I think he’s done a great job of turning it round from a PR point of view, and hopefully boring people so much with the word ‘PARKLIFE!’ that it may limit the amount of times people shout it at him in future. “The tweet that went viral had nothing to do with either - just an observation about his writing style (though I’m sure the state schools I went to in Whitley Bay would love to be compared to Eton, they were sadly lacking that kind of money). And mockery can be avoided if you take a route straight through what is known as. “I was surprised the video content is all about politics and class though. Russell Brand: PARKLIFE Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as, Parklife. The word is Parklife as in the in the 1994 hit song by Blur. One word, and all his pompous verbosity and over-weening self-aggrandizing vanity is turned to great comic effect. “I enjoyed the video and found it pretty funny, though I’m not totally surprised that a week of difficult brainstorming with his vast PR army, and a Hollywood-sized production budget resulted in a funny response to a mild 140-character observation. (BBC) I'm starting to feel bad for Russell Brand now, Parklife might have proven the perfect rebuke for his sesquipedalian rants, but he must not have. It has taken just one word, one word to burst Russell Brand’s revolutionary bubble of being some kind of modern day Che Guevara.

It may be a week late, but Russell Brand has eventually responded to tweeters who commented on his political writing style with the tag “Parklife!” by singing his very own version of Blur’s 1994 hit single.ĭan Barker who has been credited with starting the Russell Brand “Parklife” meme reviewed the video for BBC’s Newsbeat where he said:

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