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![]() It was published on YouTube several weeks before the album was released. The two went on to write this, in my opinion, masterpiece.Īnother song that was, to an extent, unavoidable was the opening song, Me and Your Mama. Redbone is an incredible song, and it started out as just a simple drum beat that Donald Glover thought of and suggested to composer and producer, Ludwig Göransson. Donald Glover even acknowledged the meme in a concert as an introduction before performing the song. It was featured in the brilliant psychological horror movie, Get Out, and has been host to one of the more popular memes this year, where the song would be remixed comedically, sometimes, at least. It’s likely that you’ve heard of the album’s headline song: Redbone. Kauai is the album most like “Awaken, My Love” in that it’s a lot less rap and more vocal and, by far, more experimental. Some of the later songs in the album, especially the interlude tracks, are a good hint to his subsequent project “Kauai”, an EP released in 2014. His 2013 album “Because the Internet” followed well despite seeming like a huge flip in style with it’s very chill hip-hop vibe. But if you repeat it and really listen, even though this style of music isn’t new, it does bring a change to the mundane chart heavy music. You might feel deterred from his music from one listen of this album. His first, incredibly aggressive Rap and Hip-Hop album, “Camp” released in 2011, portrays well his anger and strong emotions through his music. But it’s very easy to argue that Childish Gambino isn’t your bog-standard R&B artist.ĭonald Glover has released 4 projects under his musical alter ego Childish Gambino, and each of them has been very different from each other, but if you listen to each of them in order, you can see where a lot of the ideas of his songs spawned, and then the rather strange songs on “Awaken, My Love” don’t seem so weird. ![]() ![]() Right… Awaken, My Love… Where to start?… A general umbrella opinion of this quite musically controversial album is that it’s great the album envelopes so many genres and styles and uses so many techniques that you wouldn’t expect an R&B artist to use.
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