Anyone else hear the new Childish Gambino record?

^^ new borad description tbf

The video is so good. Wish the lyrics were as powerful but I’m all in for this new phase of CG after not being a fan of his previous works.

Like the song but Glover seems like a bit of an egotist

https://78.media.tumblr.com/12b64ae950e7310945e9941ae07863be/tumblr_ncc65lyqzQ1s2wio8o1_500.gif

This is America vid feels very Kendrick-lite to me

nothing wrong with Kendrick being an influencer IMO particularly for songs and/or videos that have this kind of wide viewership

"dimestore brechtian distancing"

as opposed to threepenny brechtian distancing?

Xpost: agreed. Idk if Kendrick-lite is meant as an insult but more rappers emulating him is desirable imho.

this is all reflected through so much artifice that it doesn't feel like it connects to me -- it represents connecting, and it simulates making a statement.

I guess this was my takeaway, too; the video had me thinking more about its production and technical aspects than it “connected” emotionally or intellectually (but seems I’m in the minority, and it’s not a hill I’ll die on). There certainly are a lot of “decoder rings” all over YouTube, etc. I’m sure that’s part of the point with all the signifiers, to get people learning about things they maybe weren’t aware of.

jfc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUWq_aBiE_s&feature=youtu.be

link doesn't work for me

doesn’t even sync up that well

I think the buy-in point is the gun firing when the chorus starts.
Anyway it’s a positive “jfc” from me

uuuh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW8whgmyTNU

oh my god

dying at the thumbs up/down ratio there.

https://i.imgur.com/xdIwcrr.jpg

It's terrible, obviously, but I also have no clue what she is "singing".

I browsed her youtube channel a bit and I think she may be a kind of career youtube troll, and a really boring one at that

#1 on the Hot 100.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUWq_aBiE_s

What about Gambino's version? x-post

Is this a reach?

This will largely be overlooked but it sounds like same damn song and this was released a few years prior.

Has this been discussed? https://t.co/kqTSH4fTrv

— Baby Freeway 🇧🇷🇳🇬 (@RappersRActors) June 24, 2018

Initial reaction was yeah but repeat listens has me questioning

I don't know, but it's a good track.

Great track that happens to have the same flow, same subject matter and strikingly similarly stripped down percussive trap beat with vocal chants.

Either way the artist seems to be cool with it so may as well leave it at that.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bkc_rJJg27q/?hl=en&taken-by=jaseharley

I feel like Weird Al needs to make a parody of 'This is America' (partly because the music video would be great).
What would it be titled?

I feel like he doesn't

i feel like he needn't make any more music ever again but i realize i'm in the minority on that one

This is Antarctica.

Love this is America

Love this is America Style

new video is neat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1B9Fk_SgI0

The aesthetic is kinda simpsonswave.

track really nails the sound it's evidently aiming for but the song could be better

guy rly does have a messiah complex but i liked the cheerfully slight guava island: v deliberate leftwing fable, indulgently pretty (loved the aspect and the fake? 16mm grain, but the rounded edges were a bit much), funny, short, casually zero white people. rihanna is underused i guess but i kind of admired the willingness to underuse rihanna. chops provided by nonso anozie, whom i recognized immediately but couldn't place-- he's done lear and othello so naturally it turned out what i'd seen him in is a bit part in s1 game of thrones. anyway, just nice to watch something tropical.

the first article i found while googling around to figure out if it was actually shot on 16 was an all-hands-on-deck DONALD GLOVER DOESN'T UNDERSTAND CAPITALISM. CAPITALISM HAS LIFTED BILLIONS OUT OF POVERTY. IN 1900 THE AVERAGE WAGE WAS ONLY $3. AS JONAH GOLDBERG WRITES IN "THE DECLINE OF THE WEST", etc., so well done there.

it's Murai, right? he does so much digital grading on his other stuff that I'd assume the same here. 16mm instagram filter.

yeah. too bad imo.

Apparently Donald Glover Presents was streamed this weekend. I haven't heard it yet, anyone have some thoughts?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/donald-glover-surprise-release-new-album-967548/

That article is out of date, as the stream apparently disappeared later in the day.

It’s back up. Listening now. It’s .... really fucking good?

This is amazing. One of the best records of the year on first listen, and quite the zeitgeist record at that.

finally hearing this and it is great. my fav stuff from this guy yet for sure.

I keep hearing Redbone in public and it's always a pleasure. Feels like it has really lasted beyond its time and become a classic

Me too!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj0drevGOgA

nothing exemplifies the vapid posturing of a lot of “creative” types during the trump era better than childish gambino dropping this and then joining the andrew yang campaign the following year https://t.co/06pLCPZWwm

— Fred Barrett (@fred_beretta) April 30, 2023