New video (hip-hop) from Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover

[Snowboarder_Bo]

@ftg

What is going on here? I guess it’s all about streaming/online now. Everything is instant.

Aye; you got it.

[WordMan]

[Chris Rock]

Here Today. Gone Today.

[/Chris Rock]

[ZipperJJ]

@monstro

My opinion about that white woman’s rendition of “This is America”:

AW HELL NAW, Karen! Keep your bland ass potato salad to yourself!

I get what she thought she was trying to do. And we all had a good laugh of “remakes” of “Blurred Lines” when it came out. But she completely missed that “Blurred Lines” was shifty and deserved to be mocked and “This Is America” is … not that. She just kind of “All Lives Matter”'d this video and it’s not cool at all.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

@ZipperJJ

I get what she thought she was trying to do. And we all had a good laugh of “remakes” of “Blurred Lines” when it came out. But she completely missed that “Blurred Lines” was shifty and deserved to be mocked and “This Is America” is … not that. She just kind of “All Lives Matter”'d this video and it’s not cool at all.

Are you sure you get what she was trying to do? :dubious: This is the same lady who tweeted on 4 May 2018:

@Nicole Arbour

I’m so sick of people mad at slavery. It’s the past, we weren’t there. We didn’t do it. But what we CAN do is fix economic slavery. Focus on the now.

For me, that alone calls into question the sincerity of any “parody/satire attempt” argument.

[ZipperJJ]

Hey now, i didn’t say I agreed with, sympathized with or thought it was a good idea. I just meant I see what she is doing in a sense of “I remember seeing this before.”

[BigT]

@friedo

I didn’t mean to invalidate anyone’s opinion. I was speculating more on the internet reaction to the song than the (very good and eloquent) explanations and opinions in this thread. I do think it’s important to consider that cultural trends also inform peoples’ opinions about stuff to a degree. I was just stating my reasons for not liking it, and not making any judgments about people who do. You do you, pal.

And your speculation on the Internet inherently presumes that those explanations are wrong and that people only really like the video for reasons that have nothing to do with its merit. Because you don’t like it, the majority must also not actually like it, but like the guy who created it, and so are pretending to like it.