![]() Throughout that week, several news sites reported on the #Parklife hashtag phenomenon, including BuzzFeed, The Independent, Express, Metro and Reason. By November 5th, Brand himself had presumably embraced the joke with the following tweet: ![]() ![]() Within the first 24 hours, the Vines accumulated more than 200,000 plays. On November 4th, Viner Alan White posted a mashup video featuring select footage from Brand's BBC Newsnight interview and the original music video for Blur's "Parklife" (shown below). Within the first 48 hours, the title of the song was mentioned more than 10,000 times on Twitter, according to Topsy Analytics. Shortly after Barker's tweet went live, many Twitter users in the UK began tweeting "Parklife!" at the 39-year-old British actor-comedian's account and the joke quickly caught on among the anti-fans of the comedian as well as the fans of the 90s' Britpop band Blur. In the first 48 hours, the tweet gained over 8,100 retweets and 5,700 favorites. On October 14th, 2014, Random House published Brand’s political commentary book Revolution, which advocates a social revolution to bring about an end to "corporate tyranny, ecological irresponsibility and economic inequality." On November 2nd, British marketing consultant Dan Barker posted a quote from the book, noting that it reminded him of actor Phil Daniels’ narration from Blur's 1994 hit single “Parklife” (shown below). ![]() #Parklife is a hashtag inspired by the memorable narration featured in Blur's 1994 eponymous hit single and coined by British marketing consultant Dan Barker to make fun of British actor-comedian Russell Brand's tendencies to derail into anti-authoritarian tirades in his public appearances and interviews. Celebrity, twitter, parody, music video, hashtag, blur, russell brand, parklife ![]()
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