British virtual band Gorillaz made millions of fans’ heads turn as they made an astonishing return to the music stream after a six year hiatus!

Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett, British creators of the virtual band, released the music video for the song ‘Hallelujah Money’ on Jan. 19, the first song the band has released this year.

The band’s 2017 album will come out later this year. Albarn and Hewlett have yet to release the name of the album.

‘Hallelujah Money’ was released onto a YouTube channel called UPROXX. This video was released 24 hours before Donald Trump’s Inauguration.

To say this was a coincidence is an understatement. This brave and bold political stance against Trump was seen as bizarre, confusing, and disappointing to many Gorillaz fans worldwide.

The song itself was created for the means of Donald Trump. Although, the creation of this song was not to honor or praise him, it was created for just the opposite. ‘Hallelujah Money’ is an anti-Trump song.

The message behind this song is simply a protest against the political vibe that was emplaced during 2016. Specifically, the song speaks about the influence of money and the 2016 Presidential Elections.

The song also describes the “perfect” and “all-American” picture that Trump has envisioned and promised voters. This even includes Trump’s most controversial and popular plan of building a wall on the Mexican border.

As stated previously, when first discovering that the Gorillaz had finally released music after their long and grueling hiatus, all Gorillaz fans were ecstatic to see and listen to the music released.

Or, at least that was the feeling they had felt before actually seeing the music video and listening to the song.

The song received an enormous amount of mixed feelings. Many Gorillaz fans felt as though the song was nothing close to the original sound of the band. Most felt as though the song and the music video was either very confusing, strange or just plain pointless.

Katie Tucker, a sophomore here at American International College, recently watched the music video and expressed her views on it.

“I think it was a weird way to come back after six years,” Tucker said. “It wasn’t a bad song. It was just different.”

The music video for ‘Hallelujah Money’ featured English poet and musician Benjamin Clementine standing in front of a green screen as various random and strange images flashed behind him as he sung. The ending of the video even showed a snippet of the infamous cartoon sponge SpongeBob Squarepants running away in fear.

Shiane Wilkins, also a sophomore at AIC, recently saw the music video as well and gave her thoughts.

“Benjamin ruined it, the song,” Wilkins said. “I mean, the instrumentals were good but his voice ruined it all.”

Much like Katie and Shiane, not many people were not big fans of the song. Many claimed that Clementine’s voice on the track was too dark and haunting compared to previous songs released by the Gorillaz.

In addition to this, a large sum of fans believes that the meaning and the intentions behind ’Hallelujah Money’ is far too eccentric and political for the band – which is completely false.

For years, the Gorillaz have always been known for their oddly, unique style and this song is not the first time we have ever heard politics being discussed in a Gorillaz’s song. Older released songs such as ‘Dirty Harry’, ‘911’, ‘Kids with Guns’, and ‘Plastic Beach’ all spoke about past political events.

With this being said, this does not stop people from disliking ‘Hallelujah Money’ any more than they already do. It looks like both Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett have a lot of work ahead of themselves this time around in order to really impress Gorillaz fans everywhere!