Anyone else hear the new Childish Gambino record?

"redbone," does it sample connan mockasin? feels like it but i can't identify

ok it's not quite the same just similar. this is the tune i was thinking of, "caramel"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdCz7zqfvP4

pretty close

tour w/ Rae Sremmurd.

i know Glover is getting pretty famous but i guess i'm surprised Childish Gambino can play arenas, even with Rae Sremmurd opening. or am i underestimating him? or do these venues include a post-Solo bump?

09-06 Atlanta, GA - Infinite Energy Arena
09-08 Chicago, IL - United Center
09-10 Toronto, Ontario - Air Canada Centre
09-12 Boston, MA - TD Garden
09-14 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden
09-18 Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center
09-19 Washington, DC - Capital One Arena
09-22 Houston, TX - Toyota Center
09-23 Dallas, TX - American Airlines Center
09-26 Inglewood, CA - The Forum
09-27 Oakland, CA - Oracle Arena
09-29 Seattle, WA - KeyArena
09-30 Vancouver, British Columbia - Rogers Arena

That new video

...is really good. The SNL episode was better than average too.

i thought it was a really bad SNL episode actually, but his performances were good

childish gambino is karmin without the blackface

I still can't believe Redbone made it into the top 77 of our 2017 songs poll

I can, because it's fuckin good

Here's what showed up on my screen as soon as the last moments of the video ended:

https://i.imgur.com/USzSBZJ.png

The new song/video are 100% fire

^^^

childish gambino is karmin without the blackface

― carles danger mous (s.clover), Sunday, May 6, 2018 8:46 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh care to expand on that

yeah that's a pretty weird comment to lay out there. Is Glover/Gambino theatrical? Yes. otherwise I don't get what you're saying at all.

god there are so many bad takes on the video already and it's only monday morning

(not itt so much)

I took the Karmin comparison to mean "a showier, wild-appeal repackaging of popular contemporary sounds and ideas from an entertainer almost so good at it that it seems cynical."

except karmin are terrible and he isn't?

I was cringing at that Karmin comparison but didn't want to dissect what it means that a black person is not doing blackface.

I get that comment a little bit; I found the initial incarnation of Childish Gambino deeply, deeply unconvincing in sincerity of presentation; it always struck me as more of a “this is how a rapper would present this” pose rather than “I’m going to tell this story via rap” if that makes any sense. Karmin has a similar pose going on whenever Noonan raps and I find it super off putting and unenjoayble. CG on this track, both with the musical template, the story he’s telling, and the video he put with it, cleared a sincerity hurdle for me that lets me vibe without reservation with what he’s doing.

I feel similarly, early days CG felt a little theatrical, but now feels lived-in

The critical about-face on Gambino as the world’s most unnecessary punchline rapper to the world’s most important political auteur is staggering.

no question that the current incarnation of gambino is better than that initial incarnation. but donald glover is an extremely talented writer, and possibly the most gifted comic actor of his generation, and he should do that more and do music less.

Ok, I now understand that comment by reading it "prior to this weekend, childish gambino was karmin without the blackface."

"god there are so many bad takes on the video already and it's only monday morning"

are there?

remember when we didn't need an exegesis to enjoy a music video? those were the days

video and commentary aside, musically this is definitely one of the best songs he's ever done; catchy, memorable, excellent.

I mean on twitter the two duelling takes I keep seeing seem to be "zomg this is An Incisive Commentary and Everything We Need Right Now" vs "this is an Irresponsible and Problematic statement that emphasizes black-on-black violence and fails to address...[etc.]" and like honestly can we just not do this

anyway I want to echo everyone who said this song seems to represent a step up even if I'm not 100% convinced yet (by his music that is - Atlanta is amazing)

Teddy Perkins >>>>> this video, certainly

I mean on twitter the two duelling takes I keep seeing seem to be "zomg this is An Incisive Commentary and Everything We Need Right Now" vs "this is an Irresponsible and Problematic statement that emphasizes black-on-black violence and fails to address...[etc.]" and like honestly can we just not do this

― Simon H., Monday, May 7, 2018 7:37 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Was it ever not thus?

I really liked the other song he did on SNL too. Like an upgraded Bruno Mars. A whole album of that please, especially since I was always fairly lukewarm on "Redbone."

Teddy Perkins >>>>> this video, certainly

― akm, Monday, May 7, 2018 12:59 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh not sure that Teddy Perkins would make my top 5 of S2 Atlanta episodes

tbh the comment was in regards to the latest video too. i've been really put-off by the amount this thing has been lauded. as political statements go its not very impressive imho and the very on-the-nose frission between the violence and gospel, the wry "look i'm rapping about guns" verses, the mugging in the video, all feels very theater-school or try-hard art project to me still. And the degree to which this is has been singled out as somehow above-and-beyond typical rap and r&b rather than a sort of clever-clever pastiche of it is has been getting to me.

dang, that new video

lol, oops sorry s. clover, that wasn't meant in response to you!

glad to see someone else with some positive words for "Saturday", I thought that one was pretty cool too and "upgraded Bruno Mars" is very much otm.

I liked the song Saturday better at first, until I saw the video for This is America.

Bruno Mars is exponentially better at singing, dancing, performing and writing hits, please explain what this “upgrade” is

I've just never connected with Bruno whatsoever. I get why people like him, I just have yet to not get immediately annoyed by any of his singles. "Saturday" seems a marginally more nuanced pastiche than Bruno's glaringly obvious ones.

s clover otm

I mean I don't see how it's in question that donald glover's current music is several orders of magnitude better than his old stuff

upgrade from Bruno mars not Childish Gambino

Children go nuts when Bruno Mars' music comes on. That and Party in the USA.

my roommate loves old childish gambino. imo it is barely music

"try-hard" is a great imprecise label for justifying your dislike of anything anywhere ever

Dude was rapping like Copywrite like three years ago but now he’s better than Bruno Mars

but he is better than bruno mars in some ways. the way the snl performance was choreographed and shot, for example, was better than bruno mars.

Bruno Mars used to perform at the Ala Moana mall, so you know, people grow.

donald glover gawked pete wentz better

I keep re-reading sterling's criticism of the video trying to find something I agree with. Nope.