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Cee-Lo intones his frustration with relationships, life and the duality of human nature. Friday, November 12, Sign in. Forgot your password? Get help.

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Elsewhere ; prior to the release of that album they collaborated on the songs "What You Sittin' On? Danger Mouse explains that the name Gnarls Barkley came from "fictional celebrity names like Prince Gnarls and Bob Gnarley " parodies of Prince Charles and Bob Marley , respectively made up by their friends.

According to a Billboard article: "Burton and Cee Lo have been cagey about what the name of the act means, and each live performance is an opportunity to play dress-up as tennis players, astronauts and chefs, among many other get-ups.

The costuming extends to photo shoots, as Burton and Cee Lo would rather impersonate characters from such films as Back to the Future or Wayne's World. It truly is shapeless and formless. My style and my approach is still water, and it runs so deep.

So, with that project I got a chance to be a lil' zany, of course a continuation of eccentricity, abstract and vague, and all of those wonderful things that make art exactly what it is. And that's subject to interpretation. As far as the artiste himself, it does cater to and extend the legacy of Cee Lo Green, and showcase the diversity and range and intention of Cee Lo Green.

It is a great project that I'm very, very proud of". Records in the United Kingdom signed the band after several songs including " Crazy " were played for them by Danger Mouse 's management company Waxploitation.

The track is based on an Italian song named Nel cimitero di Tucson In Tucson's cemetery composed by brothers Gianfranco and Gian Piero Reverberi from the soundtrack of the spaghetti western Preparati la bara! In the United Kingdom, "Crazy" became the first ever single to top the UK Singles Chart purely on download sales as it was released online a week before it was released as a CD single. In late the song was voted as the best song of the decade by Rolling Stone magazine.