Tbh, I'm glad it was cancelled. I got to create my own utopia, as corny as it sounds. I got some money back for the tickets I couldn't get rid of, which went towards enjoying Egypt and learning so much about their culture. Also it just reinforces a lot of his bars about people calling him a satanist, everyone hating, etc.

what reinforces his bars im confused

His concert being cancelled after the Egyptian media outrage about him being a satanist, performing rituals at his shows (I am assuming that thats what ultimately led to the cancellation, but that seems to be the most likely possiblity)

ohh tru

Which is anti black if we being honest

rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/travis-scott-utopia-review-1234797544

You know what else is anti-black? Attacking a black man baselessly on a white man's platform and using the n word casually while doing it.

at the Pyramids

Rolling Stone

Pretty solid nuance there by Fantano. Loved the little dig at Drake for continuing to speak on a beef that he backed out of.

My critiques are the following:

1) He chooses to ignore/not speak on 2nd half of MY EYES (in my opinion the most personal and vulnerable art on the project)
2) The repetitive festival-festy-fest-val thing went over his head (for explanation you can go to my twitter @AK83956)
3) His opinion on PARASAIL (being fake profound) is valid i guess, except that those mantras are literally the same that do the heavy lifting in most forms of therapy
4) The shot at Travis for rapping he's got Ye over Biden after the SICKO MODE line and continuing to work with Kid Cudi is definitely not valid, he has not idea what's going in their relationship. Life is not that black and white, neither should the interpretation of art.
5) His dislike of TIL FURTHER NOTICE reflects a lazy attempt to interpret the art in front of us. I'll give an example of a half assed take - he took inspiration from Never See Me Again and Runaway by Kanye. He's rapping about how "he can't keep a b****," meaning Kylie. 21 is portraying a character, someone who would never settle down, much akin to Pusha T in Runaway. He is doing this to show that that's not even what he did, he did what he believes was the right thing- have Stormi, chose to settle down in a sense. Despite that, she left. We don't know why she left, but she did and this is what the song is about in my opinion.
6) His overall takeaway is that there is no takeway -> disrespectful and again lazy a***ysis

I know it may seem like I'm having an impossibly high standard and I recognize that I am. But these guys have huge platforms and can really affect sales, awards, etc. I just wish they tried a bit harder.

Lmaoo wait a minute, I knew about the event but never really new any details of it. Was he about to perform literally in/by the pyramids?????

Yeah it was supposed to literally happen at the Pyramids. I was on my flight to Cairo when the news broke that Live Nation announced its cancelled. There had been speculation it was going to be cancelled basically since it was announced, lot of stuff about Travis being a satanist and doing rituals at his shows. It was all over Egyptian media. I knew there was a possibility it wasn't going to happen, but I took the opp to make a nice trip to this area. So i wasn't like devastated when I landed and my phone blew up.

ppl actually believe that s***?

american evangelical moral panic memes making it to egypt is crazy

Right? And travis addresses it on the album throughout, but none of the critics mention that cause it doesn't feel the "souless" "druggie" "careless" "passionless" narrative
Like what? If he was really that simple, you think Ye would invest so much into him?

what if, they just feared they would ruin some structural integrity of their cash cow monuments? after seeing what the fans did in Italy (a literal earthquake) they might have worried about vibrational impact especially from audio terrorist travis scott

Idk if you’re trolling or not. But the pyramids are literally already in shambles relative to their prime. The tomb raiders and people ransacked it over thousands over years. A magnitude 3 or 4 even earthquake also isn’t affecting the remaining pyramid, those stones are heavy as hell.

okay bro I'm sorry I didn't knew I was talking to an architect specialized in ancient Egyptian monuments

Why you gotta be so negative. I’m in Egypt rn and I feel very connected to the history. Sorry if I make you feel some type of way

well you thought I was trolling and then proceeded to talk like you’re an expert in pyramids

😁

btw whatever happened to his live performance at Pompeii ?

Lol im not an expert in pyramids, that's just how I talk

Lmaoo Trav goated but hell nah. The way he does his shows and doing them AT the Pyramids of Egypt definitely some satanic s*** 💀