Since everyone else in America has seen it
You might as well too. Warning: Certain images are cartoon graphic.
Contrary to what's already out there, I don't think after the first gunshot that is an electric bass that takes over, I think it is a bass synth. I could be more on board with this whole project if the music matched the choreography and the concept. No one will be humming this "Afrobeats-derived" tune or dancing to it in nightclubs, rather, it is already more of a social commentary experiment, a "did you catch X or Y in the background?" water cooler game.
But you have to admire Donald Glover's (as Childish Gambino's) unapologetic "nakedness" about tackling this subject. Yes, we know, the entire video is slightly derivative of the Kenzo World extended contorted commercial directed by Adam Spiegel/Spike Jonze, but Glover's wild-eyed "whites of the eyes" terror as he flees (from all the chaos he's/we've unloosed?) is a way, way better ending than a white girl diving through a papier-mache eyeball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOjWnS4cMY |
But you have to admire Donald Glover's (as Childish Gambino's) unapologetic "nakedness" about tackling this subject. Yes, we know, the entire video is slightly derivative of the Kenzo World extended contorted commercial directed by Adam Spiegel/Spike Jonze, but Glover's wild-eyed "whites of the eyes" terror as he flees (from all the chaos he's/we've unloosed?) is a way, way better ending than a white girl diving through a papier-mache eyeball.
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