Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[epilogue]

I don't think shallow is the best word for the artistic statement being made. Simple, perhaps, but not shallow.

[tragabigzanda]

[LoathedVermin72]

Nah, it’s shallow AF. And totally undercooked. And unearned. And, ultimately, I’m not sure it’s even a statement at all.

[epilogue]

I have no idea what it is to be black in America. But it seems to me Donald does and has a few thoughts on the matter. And I can't imagine why it's a problem for any artist to wrestle or engage with those questions and conflicts even in a simple, straightforward way.

[LoathedVermin72]

That kind of segregated curve grading for black artists is so condescending and anti-art. I reject everything about that approach.

[tragabigzanda]

[VinylGuy]

ey white people can have opinions too.
WE ALSO SUFFER YA KNOW?

[HeyGuys]

I asked my black coworker what he thought of this song and his main issue with it was how gay Donald was acting.

[LoathedVermin72]

Just a bunch of white dudes on a Pearl Jam message board spending four pages arguing over whether a black artist's latest work is impactful, amirite?

This kind of repeated comment isn’t constructive either. Again, segregating black artists into a category that no one who isn’t a POC is allowed to analyze is absurd, and hardly what I would call progressive.

[run2death]

ey white people can have opinions too.
WE ALSO SUFFER YA KNOW?

Seriously.

I had to put together an Ikea TV stand this weekend.

[tragabigzanda]

[LoathedVermin72]

Just a bunch of white dudes on a Pearl Jam message board spending four pages arguing over whether a black artist's latest work is impactful, amirite?

This kind of repeated comment isn’t constructive either. Again, segregating black artists into a category that no one who isn’t a POC is allowed to analyze is absurd, and hardly what I would call progressive.

Sorry, this was just my lame/snarky way of saying that if we're still arguing the integrity of the art, then Glover must be doing something right; otherwise we would have just collectively yawned and moved on.

Would we? Black Panther is the best movie ever made according to Rotten Tomatoes.

[VinylGuy]

As a big Glover fan, i was really tired with the song. Nothing new here. More of the same. I agree with LV´s view on how this is just another complaint from a left millonaire about ¨america¨
Its pretty narrow and safe at this point.

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[LoathedVermin72]

As a big Glover fan, i was really tired with the song. Nothing new here. More of the same. I agree with LV´s view on how this is just another complaint from a left millonaire about ¨america¨
Its pretty narrow and safe at this point.

Okay well to be fair I didn’t say that. Rich people and leftists are allowed to have opinions and complaints just like anyone else.

[bune]

Dime, I'm not responding on twitter because it's more direct for you:

I had a truly terrible day yesterday. When I said that that mash-up was the first thing that made me laugh, it was true. I wasn't laughing at the idea, I was laughing at how well it synced up. Kind of like the first time watching Oz with Pink Floyd.

[VinylGuy]

As a big Glover fan, i was really tired with the song. Nothing new here. More of the same. I agree with LV´s view on how this is just another complaint from a left millonaire about ¨america¨
Its pretty narrow and safe at this point.

...and yet you love U2's Pop.

Pop is more creative and bold than ¨this is america¨..i would say this song compares to whatever u2 did after 9 - 11 maybe.

[Dev]

it's just not a good song.

[Dev]

just not a good song.

and the vid is meaningless too.