Russell Brand's Revolution Is Being Squashed By A Blur Lyric

Russell Brand's earnest attempts at inciting social revolution have been somewhat kneecapped in the past couple of days by a grassroots campaign of mockery based on the 1994 Blur track Parklife.

Twitter user paperclipracket (aka Earthman Johann) is, to the best of our knowledge, the first to have coined the meme before London man and overnight Twitter celebrity Dan Barker independently popularised the association between Brand's grandiose rhetoric and the Britpop outfit's 20-year-old single, in which actor Phil Daniels recites spoken-word passages (which could arguably fit right at home in any given Brand speech) before the infamous call of "PARKLIFE!" comes courtesy of Blur singer Damon Albarn.

The internet seems to agree, too, with Brand now being subject to a stream of tweets 'yelling' "PARKLIFE!" at him, in response to... well, almost anything he says, and sometimes not even in response, just unsolicited Blur yelling (much to the chagrin of paperclipracket).

You get the gist.

Naturally, several parodies mashing up Brand's wisdom with Blur's instrumentation have popped up online in the wake of the meme. Get amongst one such clip below, then maybe go record your dad ranting about fuel prices and stick it on top of a backing track to secure your next viral hit.

Or enjoy one in Vine form...

Or Amazon book review.

Brand is currently promoting his recently released tome Revolution, a 320-page examination and scathing critique of oppressive, restrictive and ethically questionable institutions and systems of Western society.

(Parklife.)