Did Childish Gambino's Attempt At Being Mysterious and Pretentious Backfire?

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  • Apr 15, 2020
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    radiant child

    The way after hours was received sums up what people look for in music these days

    this is such an awful take though

    are we really going to say that albums like Thriller or Purple Rain, in which a big component of their success came from the visual component that accompanied the music, are lesser albums because they utilized these mediums to advertise their music?

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    chili
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    this is such an awful take though

    are we really going to say that albums like Thriller or Purple Rain, in which a big component of their success came from the visual component that accompanied the music, are lesser albums because they utilized these mediums to advertise their music?

    RT

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    Also I feel like Gambino just dropped this to do it. It wasnt some complicated plan behind it.

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    Smacked Voodoo

    Because he didn't drop a single, name his tracks or album, didn't have a proper rollout, didn't have album artwork, and released it at 3AM on a Sunday instead of Friday!

    He was trying to be mysterious and was just pretentious by just releasing the music with no strings attached or bundles and he flopped!

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    he sucked at Coachella last year too. Talk too dam much, we just want bangers bro. Forget being mysterious, your Donald.

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    I will never understand the hate this album gets on here, yall talk about everything but the music just because of the song titles.

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    I AM LOVE

    Ay so I'm dropping an album right.... But get this.... It has NO title, NO cover art, and NO song titles This the one right here

    Bro really thinks he’s prince or something
    Sad because he’s most like icejjfish

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    Bruh is so s***ty
    My friend tried to get me to watch Community and I could only make it through 2 episodes couldn’t take seeing that cornball in the show

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    I dunno i thought there was some really good tracks on there.

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    :skinnerpathetic:

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    chili

    this is such an awful take though

    are we really going to say that albums like Thriller or Purple Rain, in which a big component of their success came from the visual component that accompanied the music, are lesser albums because they utilized these mediums to advertise their music?

    No, I'm just saying that people are more swayed by visuals than they were before. Which makes sense because of the rise of digital media

    Plus what I was saying applies in the case of albums that are decent/mid. Obviously great albums can have great visuals to accompany it and still hold their own musical value

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    cherry

    it’s gotta be deeper than that. only his biggest stans even saw it

    RCA took all the screenshots and reddit posts down but summaries are still up everywhere and they spread pretty wide. idk.

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    World keep turnin

    RCA took all the screenshots and reddit posts down but summaries are still up everywhere and they spread pretty wide. idk.

    think that rollout leak was w/ a different record label. was a proposed rollout if he did sign with them i think.

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    innuendo

    i dont think he cared about numbers for this album

    dropped on a monday, no album title, no album cover, no real tracklist (hid ariana and 21 savage features) and had zero promotion, besides his core fanbase playing the rip of the livestream he did a week earlier

    i thought this was apparent + pretty obvious?? lol

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    lmaoo facts

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    You guys can’t just listen to the music and focus on all this extra s*** that doesn’t even matter

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    Uhoh

    The album was terrible imo

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    Fiddy

    Thread did 3.15.20 numbers

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    SHAQUILLE

    He clearly doesn’t care

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    LilDrip

    y'all care more about the numbers the album did than Donald

    he got that Atlanta bag ya goofies

    Star Wars too

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    World keep turnin

    RCA took all the screenshots and reddit posts down but summaries are still up everywhere and they spread pretty wide. idk.

    i don’t think the average music listener has any idea that even happened.

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    ThomFork

    Seen more people complain about the rollout than the music itself lmao

    folks wanted an album cover and word titles so f***ing badly

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    Saturn

    he sucked at Coachella last year too. Talk too dam much, we just want bangers bro. Forget being mysterious, your Donald.

  • Apr 15, 2020
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    You know you did something when niggas complain about everything else more than the actual music

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    Troy Ave Stan

    He really thought he had one lol

    Let Frank do Frank and you stay in your own lane bruh

    Ima be real Frank is corny when he does it too

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