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"Dare" is a song by the English virtual band Gorillaz and is the second single from their second studio album, Demon Days (2005). The track includes vocals by Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder, and is sung by Rosie Wilson as Noodle, with backing vocals from Damon Albarn. It peaked at number one on the UK singles chart in September 2005, becoming the band's only UK number one. "Dare" peaked at number 11 in Australia and Italy. It also reached the top 10 in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Iceland, Ireland, Poland, and New Zealand.

Overview

"Dare" (stylised as "DARE" and " (DARE)") is a song by English virtual band Gorillaz and is the second single from their second studio album, Demon Days (2005). The track features Happy Mondays and Black Grape frontman Shaun Ryder, and is sung by Rosie Wilson (also known as Roses Gabor) with backing vocals from Damon Albarn. It peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart in September 2005, becoming the band's only UK number one. "Dare" additionally reached the top 10 in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Iceland, Ireland, and New Zealand. Background and release The CD single of "Dare" was released in the United Kingdom on 29 August 2005. It reached number one in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2005. In the US, it peaked at number 87 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 14 January 2006 and at number eight on the Modern Rock Tracks chart on 4 March 2006. For this song, English vocalist Roses Gabor (birth name Rosemary "Rosie" Wilson) took over the role of Noodle from Miho Hatori, who had previously sung as the character on the first Gorillaz studio album. Chris Evans stated at the 2006 Brit Awards that the song was originally to have been called "It's There", but was changed due to Shaun Ryder's strong Mancunian accent making it sound like he was saying "It's dare." In a 2017 interview with Chris Moyles on Radio X, Ryder confirmed his version of events that it was him requesting a change to his headphone level, "it's going up, it's going up, it's there!" and that originally there was no title to the track at all. In August 2019, Ryder told NME that the claim about the title being changed because of his accent was "an urban myth".

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Notable quotes

“The secrets of success are courage and be careful of all the people around you because treachery always comes from relatives and .not enemies.~~ March 8, 2025”
— Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
“It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.”
— Dinah Craik, A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 11.
“Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.”
— Samuel Johnson, quoted in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson, June 11, 1784 (1791).
“Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.”
— Eddie Rickenbacker, as quoted in Quote Unquote (1977) compiled by Lloyd Cory, p. 73.
“Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.”
— Courage in danger is half the battle.
“Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.”
— Samuel Rutherford, p. 253.

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