'PARKLIFE!' Twitter users hijack Russell Brand's 'revolution' with Blur lyric

THE Brit pop era gave the country some timeless hits, larger-than-life singers and now a bizarre way to poke fun at Russell Brand.

Russell Brand has seen people tweeting 'Parklife' at everything he posts on TwitterWENN

Russell Brand has seen people tweeting 'Parklife' at everything he posts on Twitter

The comic is being bombarded on Twitter with people replying to everything he says with the words 'Parklife' - taken from the classic Blur song.

The trend was sparked after a user on the social networking site compared the way Brand talks to the flowery language used in the verses of the 90s hit.

In the track British actor Phil Daniels reads out a pompous sounding lyric, which is always followed by Blur frontman Damon Albarn shouting 'Parklife'.

People compared the way Brand talks to purposefully pompous lyrics in the Blur songWENN

People compared the way Brand talks to purposefully pompous lyrics in the Blur song

Russell Brand's writing feels like someone is about to shout "PARKLIFE!" at the end of every sentence

Twitter user Dan Barker

The unorthodox way of making fun of Brand was instigated by Twitter user Dan Barker who compared Brand's way of writing to lines from the Brit-Pop hit.

He tweeted: "Russell Brand's writing feels like someone is about to shout 'PARKLIFE!' at the end of every sentence."

In the post he also shared a picture showing a few lines from the comedian's latest book Revolution, described in one review as a "smug, shallow manifesto".

It read: "This attitude of churlish indifference seems like nerdish deference contrasted with the belligerent antipathy of the indigenous farm folk, who regard the hippie-dippie interlopers, the denizens of the shimmering tit temples, as one fey step away from transvestities".

The tweet was re-tweeted more than 7,500 times and favourited by around 5,300 people.

It encouraged thousands of Twitter users to reply to tweets from Brand with 'Parklife', including the messages in which he gave his reaction to the viral craze.

He posted: "It's weird how highly paid, privately educated journalists who work for the corporate media attack my book Revolution."

That tweet was met with Twitter users replying with the Blur quote and people also posted reviews of his new book on Amazon which simply said 'Parklife'.

Mr Barker later took to the social networking site to ask whether he should apologise to Brand for sparking the craze.

He tweeted: "Oh dear- should I apologise to @rustyrockets that people are shouting 'PARKLIFE' at him?"

Would you like to receive news notifications from Daily Express?