Childish Gambino - This Is America (Music Video)
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Donald Glover is gonna have people talking about this one.
Spoiler for the music video: I thought he was gonna shot the school kids too and he never did.
I'm still not sold on his music gimmick. Since his last record anyway. The look and sound just don't work. The video is unquestionably well done though and makes the track bearable.
I didn't like the song and I don't really get the video, or more precisely, the fuss over the video I saw on Twitter earlier today.
By Apollo Go To PostThe video is so badI dont know if its bad but i dont see the fuss about it
I think it's a good song with an even better music video. The proper album release needs to have the gunshot sounds tho. The single without that effect isn't as effective.
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Torn on the actual song. The light parts are a bit ... meh.
The trap / hard part. Really dig.
Think the video is p.great though. The amount of refrences he makes visually is p.amazing.
The trap / hard part. Really dig.
Think the video is p.great though. The amount of refrences he makes visually is p.amazing.
Song is good
A lot of interpretations are fucking stupid though, specifically the attempts to paint it as him saying fuck trap music despite him using 21 and Thugger as samples throughout the song
If your interpretation doesn't involve talking about how the video puts black entertainers in the forefront to mask the atrocities happening in the background...you fucking wrong and missing out tbh
A lot of interpretations are fucking stupid though, specifically the attempts to paint it as him saying fuck trap music despite him using 21 and Thugger as samples throughout the song
If your interpretation doesn't involve talking about how the video puts black entertainers in the forefront to mask the atrocities happening in the background...you fucking wrong and missing out tbh
By HottestVapes Go To PostThe song has grown on me.yes.
By Mariosalic Go To Postyes.Still no J. Cole to me, but the way the beat of the verses meet and blend with the chorus around 3:14 is incredibly well done. Like the whole song is building up to that. Still don't get why people thought the video was leading to Glover shooting the kids. Before the prior two shooting in the video, the chorus played before being interrupted by bloodshed. There's no chorus when he's dancing with the kids. It's telegraphed explicitly that the video isn't gonna go that far.
A friend just told me Childish Gambino is Glover lol.
I thought Glover was just starring in the video
I thought Glover was just starring in the video
By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostA friend just told me Childish Gambino is Glover lol.Lol
I thought Glover was just starring in the video
By FlutterPuffs Go To PostHoly.
Shit.
a lot of messages in his video... Song is pretty well put together...
I love how they protect the guns every time he uses one...
I love how they protect the guns every time he uses one...
By FlutterPuffs Go To Post
FFS. They should have never given you all Adobe premiere. 😂😂😂
By s y 2.0 Go To Postliterally a couple posts before yoursLeaving it up as a monument to me being late
So yeah, song/video has grown on me considerably over subsequent views/listens. In the video, the care added to how the gun is handled after each shooting is a poignant touch.
For the song, how the chorus is presented and interrupted with each shooting and culminating in Glover dancing on a car above everybody else. Fantastic. Exactly how NRA hardcores act as if they're above everybody/above the law. It's fucking beautiful. I love it.
Overall? Fucking fantastic. Add to that, the visual metaphor of a white (pale) horse running in the background around the 2:30 mark. It's undoubtedly a better video than Sober, but I feel it can be only appreciated when taken as a whole (video and song together) whereas Sober is great as a song, and just as great viewed and listen to together.
For the song, how the chorus is presented and interrupted with each shooting and culminating in Glover dancing on a car above everybody else. Fantastic. Exactly how NRA hardcores act as if they're above everybody/above the law. It's fucking beautiful. I love it.
Overall? Fucking fantastic. Add to that, the visual metaphor of a white (pale) horse running in the background around the 2:30 mark. It's undoubtedly a better video than Sober, but I feel it can be only appreciated when taken as a whole (video and song together) whereas Sober is great as a song, and just as great viewed and listen to together.
By s y 2.0 Go To PostStill think the song is ass.
Complete ass. People have just bought into because they like Glover
So this won Song and Record of the year at the Grammys?
Don’t think I ever heard it other than the first time when this thread popped up. Although, I don’t follow music much.
Deserved winner?
Don’t think I ever heard it other than the first time when this thread popped up. Although, I don’t follow music much.
Deserved winner?
By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostSo this won Song and Record of the year at the Grammys?I'd say so, especially compared to the other noms, but also fuck the Grammys
Don’t think I ever heard it other than the first time when this thread popped up. Although, I don’t follow music much.
Deserved winner?