Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love

[BurtReynolds]

I think this is legitimately a more powerful statement than the song itself

[epilogue]

That's pretty special.

[tragabigzanda]

[bune]

I think this is legitimately a more powerful statement than the song itself

That's the first thing that's made me laugh out loud today, thanks Burt.

[Teeeeeekay]

The song is interesting but not something I'm totally blown away by. The video, however, is fucking amazing.

I love the song a lot. I love how it goes from this uplifting vocal feel, to that filthy, paranoid bass track. There’s not much there for lyrics, which has never been his strong point anyway. He gets the point across with minimal lines. The production is stellar. And the video brings it all together perrfectly.

[spike]

I love Glover as an artist, but everyone going crazy for this is america..mmm

i'm not familiar with his stuff much, but this is america is fantastic.

[epilogue]

The song is interesting but not something I'm totally blown away by. The video, however, is fucking amazing.

I love the song a lot. I love how it goes from this uplifting vocal feel, to that filthy, paranoid bass track. There’s not much there for lyrics, which has never been his strong point anyway. He gets the point across with minimal lines. The production is stellar. And the video brings it all together perrfectly.

Yeah, that's fair. I think that's right. I still haven't heard the song outside of the video so I don't have fully formed thoughts about it yet.

[Jorge]

It's so flat

[tragabigzanda]

[Jorge]

And I like that in theory -- one of my favorite "alternative" hip hop songs in recent memory is exactly that, Zebra Katz's "Ima Read"-- but it's punctuated by all these garish touches like the acoustic fingerpicking and that awful choir that makes this an ugly mess that resolves in nothing. I really dislike this song.

[spike]

And I like that in theory -- one of my favorite "alternative" hip hop songs in recent memory is exactly that, Zebra Katz's "Ima Read"-- but it's punctuated by all these garish touches like the acoustic fingerpicking and that awful choir that makes this an ugly mess that resolves in nothing. I really dislike this song.

i'd say it's reasonable this song be lost on a wealthy foreigner

[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

[spike]

those flourishes/changes are big part of what makes the song work and makes it so great.

[LoathedVermin72]

The song is just like the video - lots of gimmicky flash with no real meat. It sells the illusion of meaning without actually saying anything.

[VinylGuy]

I really like Childish Gambino. I think Because The Internet and Kauai are wonderful and Awaken My Love! is his greatest album. This song is good, i like it, i appreciate the video well enough, hell im a big big fan of Murai´s work...But the praise is getting..mmm not that much.

[tragabigzanda]

[LoathedVermin72]

It just seems like a lot of really basic juxtapositions and evocations that are not new or insightful at all. “Impressionistic” is a convenient way of saying “incoherent.” He just runs through the greatest hits of American black imagery in a way that is totally safe and comforting, trying to look superficially confrontational while ultimately pandering to easy liberal ideology. It’s meaningless. It’s tired. It accomplishes nothing except attracting attention from easily impressed liberals who lavish this kind of eye-rollingly overblown praise on some variation of this same thing seemingly every few months. We get a new “genius,” everyone looks woke, nothing moves, repeat.

[VinylGuy]

I agree.

[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]

So what? Anything can be insightful or new if you don’t know anything that came before it. Seems like the lowest form of praise we could give to any work of art.