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you call analysis broken into short digestible episodes. I'm your
scottish today. We continue. Our sea relies analysis that, because the internet, by childish, Gambino last episode, we explored
and pink toes, which found Gambino expressing sincere emotion and hope unless the limits of his place in society and time
earn saw him, make peace with letting go of his past by symbolically spreading his father's ashes into the sea newly and touch
this brought our ability. The boy was open to connection and met Naomi play.
Johnny I go there. Love played out across
the screenplay musical projects in the public sphere in a grand performance,
emphasising the power of love, but also the limits of our time here. Just like the high
Drugs at his metaphorically intertwined with the relationship outside forces will prevent their law
from being eternal things are
can the world and that prevents
then from staying in the euphoric bliss relapsed left off.
In the script with the scene, which the boy and I owe me, lose their connection
the boy headed out to oversee a drug deal at the mansion,
Naomi warned him not to go by
does, anyway, the script hills
that they'll never see each other again, and then
to a scene of the boy driving down the item. Highway. Listening to the song, Danny Lover by young son
as this is my life
well imagine
and twenty three
team? This is an early reference, a young thugs who had just been signed by gucci made. The title of this too
Danny Glover indicates
like lover may have chosen to include in the script.
for nearly his entire career. People have confused Donald,
however, as either Danny Lovers, son or as the elder,
clever himself, even though
have no relation whatsoever now no download of love or how many people still think Danny
Is your dad or I wonder if he hears that from me like. If he's just like this guy cursing yeah, I mean it's funny and people think he's my dad, which is really funny. Besides the tracks
minced, both the boy and dollar, clever, the notion,
a fake father. A false inheritance also fits the magically the scene, the boys had
back to the mansion. A symbol of
inherited constructed identity and an attempt
make money and maintain the lifestyle afforded by his father. Shady dealings,
and given that we know the boy will never see Naomi again we're tense.
What might happen. The upbeat flow and cadence of you,
third and play the boys feeling good. But that's going to end soon
boy pulls up to the mansion, the script notes
playing the song made in America by Conny Western Jazzy featuring Frank Ocean sleep, sleep, sweet Jesus made in America examines black history in America. Franco
compare civil right there, icons to the biblical Mary, Joseph and Sweet baby Jesus and notes with pride that
made it in America, the song the fuels
triumphant as if the strike
a black Americans and resilience is victory and that now,
they ve made it as in David,
give the necessary freedom and equality.
the boys things, his own altered version of the hook: sweet cream of Arta, sweet mozzarella, sweet Jesus
their made in America sweet bull of cheese it at first. This is
course a funny plan words, but remember
the boys of the mansion to make money, cheese, chatter,
and evoking money as a replacement of civil rights and religious icons. The boys
Oak illuminates the way our system has commodified and replace eating a survival need with economic struggles
we ve got more than enough food for everyone. We can make the table bigger
systems isolate and separate instead of United as Glover can t
used to try and highlight the ways are system needs to change. This job, which is
a quick we might miss. It shows that the
is caught up in the rat race. Trying to
money and game freedom. But as you look,
to the door of the mansion. He sees men with guns and he knows it
I'm is up. You see the jokes on us weak
get out of the rat race until we remove the racetrack until then were all trap.
racing loops trying to get ahead and some
have distinct disadvantages. The guys
mentioned or see the boys alone and pull out their guns.
it's here that were instructed to play, because the internet's next track, the subject
episode today, earth the oldest computer, the latter
night,
first, the oldest
Peter was produced by childish, Gambino and leave the gourd said the track features of four corpse
Russian played on a synthesizer and later
accompanied by a foreign the floor, danced style based from true to its dance, music. Invalid
is the song? Is one big build up trading too
Jim throughout until finally explodes, and we can't help it
of our bodies and satisfaction of this release. It makes for a perfect if unexpected soundtrack too
Ten seen between the boy and the arm, drug dealers,
and soon
night.
can be no begins the track singing. Now I don't want to see an era see now
they want to live for ever and ever maybe
the last night, the excess
Jill stresses of the human experience have been alluded to throughout because the internet
here they are stated quite plainly, Gambino
doesn't want to die. He fears death
This fear that unites us is a conscious species in error.
Is a period of history typically defined by a particular characteristic.
Gambino wishes to move beyond that. To experience the growth change and progress that occurs across multiple areas, besides the passage of time,
This also speaks to his widespread rejection of labels and desire to.
experience. Freedom beyond current limits to exist beyond definition,
His pronunciation of era, also insinuates. The hominid error, which relates to the
out of web language throughout ATI,
forces his desire to not see an end or death, maybe
last night refers to both the eminent death. The boy faces in the script as well
the general feeling that any day could be our last there's an input.
asian here and throughout BT, that we need to understand how to act. Given this incontrovertible truth as lovers
in interviews at the time we could die at any moment. I love away. He was like he's like you know, we're all gonna die like
like that, like no one less like that, we have like the ability to do then. No one does it. It's crazy is like a really weird,
what's the time in piston that I was going to know the whole the fact that we hear when the world something else, could we even need a call back out with the guys nobody was a puppy,
no begins wrapping when the world was discern with this. In that I was young.
no to hold back
here Gambino speaks retrospectively about his inability to hold back, which could refer to its own public presence
his own social media activity or the trolling of the boy. But as we see,
and he's growing up and realising more of what's going on around him. He wraps. Now we hear
the world is something else.
taking on the universal perspective, the we
Something else is the current condition we find ourselves in props.
to the new environment of the post internet world, the vague qualities
exacerbated by the following lines. We could leave any day and call for help, leaving
here, could be a reference to death or suicide as a way out of the problems that we face. This idea
in turn, a call for help both enter
of saving the individual as well as this
for something else. Some better way to live.
Get me outta than issues a statement of unified power. We were gods. Nobody was above me in a single breath.
speaks both to the ego of our technological capacity to build worlds for ourselves as wells, mass egalitarianism that were all equally gods.
the we and me here- are interchangeable, as
be no assumes a universal applicator status.
We covered and exploration of because the internet secret track lovers.
the act of creation as the spark of God by creating,
something and making connections, we can experienced
I'm in power of God, how
It seems that, in this instance, campaigners
wrapping about using this power to put once individual self forward ass conveyed by the nobody was above me,
then continues to prioritize this fabrication of himself with the string of similes that a my chest like adultery that ain't my chest put your fist up that a on my chest like a chipmunk, Alvin Theatre,
First, he references the scarlet letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a classic novel
grappling with societal, shaming and the Institute of Marriage and the new
a woman gives birth to a bastard. Child is condemned
society and then is banished
forced to wear the letter, a as a constant reminder of her adulterous status. The EIA my chest put your fist up refers to end
key a state of society without authority or government. Video lodge
the pursuit of equality and freedom without bounds. Having connected
Two images challenging the structure of our society. The am I just like a chipmunk appears to be a punch line. Referencing the cartoon musicians Alvin in the chipmunks
avenue. The chipmunks was created as a novelty, acted nineteen, fifty eight their high pitched,
bet up singing eventually becoming the term chipmunk voiced. This technique has been a d
did by other musicians for different effects and perhaps most relevant too clever, for
the basis of Conny was early music, which is affection.
described as chipmunk saw. You can't tell me
disregard this possible reference. Giving lovers constant claim
of being Conny son as we covered throughout the season. It's a reckoning
at the truly infinite and disparate influences that shape or we are from classic literate
We read in high school to political ideologies to cartoons which also have been
as in therapy tie its wild to think of ever
That plays a role in shaping, for we are that brand.
identity so to speak as indicator,
by the various aid on his chest that seems to be
exploration of the way various entities affect the way we come across to the world of the way we claim influences and Glover here is tying them.
together setting the stage for his life flashing before his eyes. At the moment of his possible death, Gambino
chinese wrapping breathing
Bree. Thou me more,
Sensation. Breath is a call for presence in mindfulness summit,
We do and were in a panic which ties into the script and the boy being
held up by a gunman, but given the likely
since two colonies, early music in the previous line,
This also seems to be a reference to the song breathing breathe out, featuring ludicrous from commies debut up on the college drop out.
there was wrong, we may allow the second generation of campaigners. Breathing breathed out is followed by never mind can be.
Recognizes that he can't stop that history.
Its incessant and it's his time to go. This coincide.
But the boys impending doom. It was time,
Number nine lives feline with a death wish the boys,
reaching the end of his time, unable to escape the death at his doorstep.
of the old saying cats have nine lives. Gambino, who
internally went to the mansion. Despite Naomi warning, is the cat with the death wish unable to
of a death any longer
No, then laments his fate. Wrapping eating right didn't help shit,
name on the guest list. Firstly recognise the Joe
Gambino says he is eating right, but it didn't help is shit but, more importantly, this continues. The motel
of eating as symbolism for consumption. We recognized throughout BT
the boys evolution from popped hearts to fast food, too vague in mere
evolution as a person, and here he is
You're frustrated. That is, recent changes, didn't make things better for him. He still going to die as he faces this day
he sees no name on the guest list here, like
his position as a party and in the end, in death, she's alone,
either he's not on the list anymore or he does
have any one to put on the list to accompany him when he dies
this line will also tie into the forthcoming scene in the script as the boy,
up in the mansion will be renewed,
of the parties hosted there, the boys
not being on the guest list at his own party thus represents is
Pending death
Those time is up, he then says hold on. We were destined
Here he switches again from I too. We see me to speak
for humanity as a whole.
His own name may not beyond the guest list, while his time
maybe up the grand
we is destined to go on a thread that will be picked up,
later in the track as earth continues, Azalea
thanks interests, attract a single rephrase,
Your name
azalea. Banks begins repeating the songs intra like all the
Jews in the world. A pity I is highly
likely her appearance is symbolically tied to a real life identity here on earth, the oldest computer, twice
So she was chosen because of her infamous association with the internet. While she was
relative newcomer back in two thousand. Thirteen. Her prey
it's on. The web has been a constant media. Lightning rod
she galvanizes audiences and grappled with topics such as mental health, sexual orientation, race and more with almost a terrifying candor, simply put
is the maelstrom of the web, personified around the time
He appeared on BT, stereo gum
published an article titled, the tender
Miss Azalea Banks, Pisa, two thousand thirteen.
while Gambino and banks is relationship, was one founded in the web. It also extend
in real life
and I know I like what I do: a bunch of drugs. Azealia banks does drugs with me. Like we do drugs again, she's actually supposed to be doing like mushrooms,
responsibly and when I come back when she's, making mushrooms movies means understanding, banks is contextual, presents unlikely character, ruler BT, we might,
If the lyrics about her wanting to live forever, come from the web itself from all of
scrambling to leave a permanent trace on the net to certify org
since an eternity gamble,
then punctuates each line of maybe it's the last night with romantic
beautiful symbolism, he sings you and me fireworks all the stars and Superman
reminder of the presence of celestial entities throughout BT, specifically
the stars and moon that seem to represent masculine and feminine energies respectively. The peers, Gambino US
appearing to unite with the universe, as becomes a part of the all encompassing we after death. This
universality is continued, as banks takes the lead, Spinks officers
of more vulnerable to the grand we singing. All that I have all I dont have. The future.
take on my soul. All night is a powerfully unguarded offering.
In the light of understanding that tomorrow's not promised that death is going to happen,
keep us from seeing the future. Banks offers all
but I have and begs the universe to take on my soul
total surrender in the face of the terrifying unknown denies them. Whenever you never know the consequences reaches. The message about the lab name can be no place,
of banks is plea to unite with the universe. Wrapping break free from
the insides this
indicates the release occurring of achieving freedom and death,
insides here seem to be the limits of physical life and realising his oneness with the universe, realising all of our unity, Gambino Break free of
restrains, as if becoming God
those who would deny this are godless. Hence
the following mine, the godless denied us can be.
And recognises the limit of our finite mortality so far wrapping. But we don't
a damn about the next day. We were never hear, never know. If the world change
the way we use our world and resources? It appears we don't care about tomorrow.
and don't act sustainably and the grants
the aim of the universe or individual lives, or so short, it's as if we weren't even here, and we can't really
comprehend the long arc of history beyond our own era. If Arkansas
with only ourselves and our present moment we lose sight of the future,
and the changes that will occur. We think about me and not. We
Four has explained this more directly in a recent interview with Mikhail Coal, saying quote,
generation has a job they need to do. The job is always the same wishes to
The tree you won't eat from period. If you can't do that job, it doesn't keep going, which is, I think,
hard for us to really grasp, I think
your quest to understand is this: you need to plant a tree right now and you don't get to eat from it
maybe your kids don't even get to eat from it. You just tee
them to water it, but their kids get tee from it and you d
or you go on you transition. Knowing you do
The right thing unquote as the boy
his death. He comes
The realisation that he didn't always do the right thing. He didn't always plant the tree
can't be northern wraps common sense, the consequences retreat. The truth, then regret the mention.
We are aware of the results of our actions. There often common sense.
we can see the science and data indicating our current systems are causing irreparable damage. We know
Economic system and racial biased make it impossible for everyone to get a fair shake to experience. Real freedom quite often,
Content we spread on the web is indicative of the horse with created. We retreat the truth, but
engage and continued conversations or hold ourselves truly accountable campaign.
It identifies the current situation, offering a diagnosis for problems. He wraps
We are the wireless survivors of things gone here,
seems to identify the generation of people born before the internet became pervasive, having experienced with humanity.
Before the web. It's an important, pivotal, transitory perspective, too clever. I think, like learning unique position that that we have a responsibility:
Let's do this, but let's do right like we, we were member what humanity's with low
Like we remember those feeling remembered ass, it ring that good shape with us good shit leave those abortion as glow
explains. This puts a sense of responsibility on our generation. Who would also tell complex quote
I don't know what I'm doing now, but everything is being recorded were the first ones to have to deal with this kind of stuff
So we have to be aware of that and be aware of the repercussions on quoth. He then
jobs, slaves to the unnamed. Never live long live in
the line never no fear slave
So the unnamed appears to mean those who work for something unidentified
essentially those who live life without an existential purpose are doomed.
if humanity doesn't act with our unified survival and progress as our purpose, we're not going to be here long. Quite
literally, will use up our planet to quickly. The seems too,
and, as a result of living and dying by the line, never no fear that
the dishonesty of not recognising and grappling with problems and insecurities instead living and ignorant bliss. It was this
everything that Glover rejected and posting a series of notes detailing is most intimate. Fears on Instagram, as Glover would explained device quote fear is the only connecting factor,
these. For me, every time I say something that I think someone else should know this, that's the thing that
really gives the biggest response. Unquote fear is universal, something that connects us all
It's also extremely motivating fear causes action, and if we want to spur
action toward connection. We need to reckon
as the true terror of isolation of not grappling with our problems of law.
Without regard for the ways that we kill each other, we can recognise each other's fears, empathize and identify common fears. We can act to make it safe for each other.
It is certain, and each one of us listening to this, isn't going to make it, but if we can cure,
but each other.
Can realise that we need to make a place for those after us and plant the tree,
can utilise our fear and connections for good progress. Only thing that, alas, three thousand of acting as a back seat,
Gambino levels with us. Wrapping, even I won't survive, is an unfair casino.
Care, when I step on it and on the grass Donald
further Emmy Grammy Golden Globe winning artist, the artists who made a world we ve spent hours exploring on the show offers
an ultimate truth that he's
and die the boys going to die.
Irish Gambino, is going to die. Donald Glover is going to die that unfair,
If someone can achieve as much as Glover has according to our systems, should they be
but transcend mortality. Shouldn art provides
web everlasting life, if only in memory. No, it doesn't
only guarantee in life is death,
for everyone, no matter what you do and we're all connected, throw
shared mortality.
but this also seems fair. We don't
mortality of others as Glover points out when we step
answered, the grass we don't recognize each life lost. Similarly earth does not care,
when each of us dies it's a humbling thought, but the fear that this
little truth evokes, could be used to motivate and connect us
Gambino than wraps progress, only thing that last more than
Individual lives on earth is to unify
forward, movement of humanity as a whole. That makes a dent in existence
Gambino stated in an earlier interview. We have to plant a tree for them.
future and contribute to humanity, survival and sustainability. We should think bigger about our purpose again,
thinking less about me and more about the youth
Firstly, we can be no continues three thousand five the year that we fear only God will survive,
Of course, campaigner makes an internal reference to the song three thousand five,
If you remember our analysis of the song music, video and accompanying seeker check, you know that three,
and five as a concept comes to represent infinity in this instance,
at the end of time, Glover states that only God will survive room
were this, isn't a westernize religious concept of a singular removed God? This is the concept of we.
while we are now becoming God, the continuous
progression of time means that if we want to survive, we will have to create to enact a spark of God
laughter sustainably, build a world that we can inhabit and make it a space
For all of Us
Gambino then says to be alone is alive, but also
To be alone is a lie in many ways:
This dualistic line encapsulates the global message, because the internet explorer
says the loneliness inherent to the human experience, but also the fat,
that this loneliness is a lie that were all connected, recalled
phone line from lovers, Instagram notes
really lost last year. But I can't be lonely, though, because we're all here raw stuck here, unquote.
independence is interdependent
We rely on each other to exist. If we, the collective. We want to make it any further. If we want us this week
connections to live forever than we have
recognises connections and act with them in mind. The under
I'm feeling a Gambino song as a reaches. This point is that things will get better because we're here together as Gamble
explain to Time magazine quote. I think the future is progress if we treat it right, but
a lot of other people are afraid, because it's a lie
scary. This is how it is
have to be ok with it. Lets fix those things
there's something wrong, but this is the way
future is seen
soon
and
after delivering the final version of the song Gambino in banks, single hook together offering intent
repetition and evolving further and further, as the boy approaches death
during life shows. These repetitions of the hook were swapped out with more improvised, intimate please from Gambino. The specific lyrics might
ancient small ways from night tonight
covered the same thematic idea that he didn't want to die
among
Alternate lyrics are statements like I dont want to leave this place. Don't take this from me, I don't know where to go, and I just one
understand this. In my heart, understand,
gotta understand my soul, its desperation.
Fear of death in the moment of death, a sincere
singing to life, the pursuit of,
understanding and the unifying fear.
the unknown Gambino
was to survive, and I see gloves
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can't be no express that you didn't want to Jesse an error that he wanted to live forever, that he didn't want to die.
regardless, the boy in the script is meeting his fate and musically
here, Gambino Life Flash before his eyes.
maybe I e all I gotta pee all lie the build up of the beat takes an annex
active turn here and get me
has distorted voice wraps. She got that body o me. Oh my send them pigs to my phone JP or why,
at first, it seems like a big departure from deems addressed thus far in the track he fixed aids
Physical Lust and desires connection through a phone leaning in
the hedonism of the first half of the album
p p a wise and acronym popular and sites like Tumblr standing for gratuitous
sure of yourself
epitomizes, the indulgence of narcissism of the internet by posting,
exorbitant amount of photos of yourself, given that this
frank comes directly after a song full of beautiful but tragic insights, and please in the face of death, it's a bit puzzling but
if you were an artist attempting to portray your life flashing before your eyes, how could you do it? Well
One thing you can do is reference your password and assign a collage and receives
be exactly what Glover is doing here
here's the song- you see me from Gambino previous album camp,
and everywhere
on the hook.
Has the same syllabic structure, the same use of a four letter acronym as punctuation and similar content Gambino,
that makes a connection to tumblr and posting those JP a wise as Gambino
he needs to repeat the acronym. The bee continues to be
with synthetic hand, claps encouraging crowd participation as we prepare for the dance drop war. Perhaps the moment of death.
Why is that
encourages us to clap along Gambino, repeats JP a why the face of death. There is the feeling of part
like its ninety ninety nine, enjoying some momentary bliss before the impending doom and live.
Those during this section, the mansion bridge,
from behind Gambino and the ban crumbles apart and is sucked into
vector. Ask vortex of code as all hell breaks loose incrementally this is the climb
of the track we ve been working towards since the beginning,
Pino emerges. Crooning an unexpected loves here, begin an interpretation of another all Gambino son, this time it's so
fly off the mix, tape, cul De Sac
So
fly as an incredibly intimate and emotional moment early on in campaigners catalogue. In contrast,
but the crass braggadocio of you see me this inside reference Harkin's back further to a more vulnerable nostalgic, love and relationship
We think of the way the feminine energy has offered a source of symbolic comfort. Throughout b t. We
he searching for comfort in this moment of existential terror to connect
since he has lost and long for where
B as mother, Alyssa or Naomi seem to be coming back to him.
Understanding now there can be no is using past work to create a life flashing. Before his eyes experience. We have to note that the production of earth
resembles to order song from Gambino Career first, the
get it a dancer
from lovers, mix tape, utterances of the heart public
under the moniker empty deja vu.
They give you wanna movie, you wanna, get this be
altered and recycle, forget pianos track, the last
closing number on his two thousand ten weeks. State policy, really what I want to tell us why never faced right leg up, do not lie evils and I make brands in other ways- and I was somewhat always, but aside from the sonic similarities, even the song title. The last is a vote in earth. Parent
medical title and refrain the last night and so take
these three references to Gambino Back catalogue and totality. We see him
fighting back on his life and connecting the dots at the moment of death back to his previous out of camp even for
back to his mix tape, cul de sac and even further.
still to his college days at the embassy Dj Betake fittingly earth continues with a climactic calamity. Perhaps too
making the moment of death and the screenplay
in the script
The boys led into the mentioned by the men with guns they make him give up,
drugs in the house and sit on a couch
he immediately starts thinking of ways to escape but realized
that, even if someone called the police there isn't it
station and in the Palisades so would be too late. The script in red,
the feeling the boy had now a shockingly similar to the feeling he got at his own parties
people he didn't know or like casually walking around his home and him having to pretend everything is fine or that data
while the power, when club the boy thinks of tax
fan for help, but the guy's take his phone.
The two main guys are named dude one and due to the screen, play them
further bled the boy thought process. With the script quote it did
feel like the day. The boy was going to die, not to say that
Why didn't feel like he was going to die? He was certain he was going to die today, but here
I feel like today felt like a the last day night,
like a Wednesday that keeps feeling like a Friday, but them
he thought about it if the last station,
like the last day. The world
would be a different place
the order we have every day with vanish. If you are guaranteed a warning
People went live like they do. They won't care
but what you saw it be anarchy or a utopia
depending on how you ask unclear the script and says
if I was to director the one.
coded this world and allowed it to happen. They would play Thundercats track, will die.
Do you recall that Thundercats appeal
BT as producer based player and vocalist on shadows and pinkos the script and continues with bold italics,
indicate the boys internal thoughts quote: try
do your best. These
the final lyrics on the song we'll die dude
walks outside with the boys phone and do too
stays but takes his wallet. The boy
due to if the let him drown since
heard they're supposed to be a wave of euphoria when he drowned do too
it takes a seat next, with the boy and says we ve been watch
you for a while
boy realises these guys at the police. The boy asked I'm going to jail
And then he starts imagining his body floating lifeless and the infinity poor. Next, the script
as an aunt Bettie clip Campesinos Jaffee at Kyoto, a video and song that refuse to announce is forthcoming, Alan because the internet, the script, continue
by describing what the boy envisions quote eyes: wide bubbles
lean to his face orange yellow.
And brown leaves flowed above him. His
I've shoe floating far ahead, probably
struggling at some point. Next to the pool.
Naomi and Steve stand over him. Neither
crying or really seem to upset the just look on
as if the movie they are watching, took an abrupt turn and their mildly interested. Rather than satisfied. It looks peaceful, fitting he'd like to go out like that, and then the boy thinks what's that
the car screams to a halt pulling up outside the mentioned gunshots start firing. Do
to a startled and dude one comes in firing. He shoots duty.
It falls to the ground screaming and agony dude
and turns to the boy the script cuts out bid sentence.
Then in parentheses, indicates three breaths being taken. Then silence.
in this scene, the boy arrives at his mansion singing unaware of the day.
but he faces
enjoying the high life and became complacent, leaving him unguarded, making it easy for the cops or the crook step ahead.
We recall earlier descriptions of the house that foreshadowed the vulnerability of the mansion security, noting that quote, if
one made their way up there. It would be easy to get in his glass
house is innately exposed and much like our concern.
did identities, it can come crashing
down at any moment, interests
lay while hostage in his own home. The boy feels like
did at his party's before he realized the capacity for connection. If
alienated isolated and powerless. In the face of what's going on around him and a scene
directly after he in Miami disconnect over, not feeling fine to again has to pretend
things are fine, even as he knows he's going to die. This reinforces
lovers desire for us to all recognise and act with the knowledge of mortality, with the knowledge that
Things are not ok, he also implies
when he talks about how different we'd act, if we all could feel or comprehend or impending death? No,
when he says that, if we could, we wouldn't care what other people thought and the four
Some of that revelation alone would cause anarchy or utopia, depending on
you asked in this way
Where is proposing that currently most of our
mutations restrictions are caused by
caring about what others think of us. When the duke
this phone and his wallet they take his method of connecting with the world his mouth,
he and his identity. At this point, death feels inevitable.
as he's lost all of his power and sense of self the boy
If, though, let him drowned in the infinity pool as an act of mercy calling
attention to the possible symbolism of this type of death, but the dude stop
and tells him he's going to jail because their cops. The present
the police has hovered throughout BT from the shooting of world. Star and telegraph avenue to the site.
Since that ended pinkos as different.
people did their best to gain power or freedom. There are always
the deadly threat of state sanctioned police violence
in our analysis of these scenes. We recognise that
This brutality is an existential threat to the minority populations. These
Queries in our system compel attempts at fixing that very system.
Yet our society polices as a method of control of me
training. The system we built the status quo, their job is to protect
but all, but as we have seen, the way that we build capital prohibits everyone from eating the crap
drove the system is further reflected in the hypocrisy of these cops. As the
Coming shoot out reveals that some of them are also likely competing. Drug dealers
before the shoot out. The boy gets a reprieve, a vision and the FAO
The video and snippet Yankee at
it's here that we see his body flowing lifelessly in the infinity poor, his arms out
fresh wide, staring directly
The camera darling backwards, the selective clip of Jaaffier Code
is the first half of the song, a barrage of self deprecating bars, wherein he calls himself the worst wrapper and panic.
The fleet, nature of it all was rapporteur on the main one rabbit I ever so many like. I have a blow up overnight, Wilma well bred lacking, gave the boy he's tearing himself
partner track fitting for the moment of death of deconstruct
loss of self Ballistic,
moment to acknowledge what Glover just did here. Yeah here
Toto was a song that formally announced the Alps release in the first tangible piece of the because the internet world, at the time, its vision,
were extremely cryptic yet now in this,
green place final scene. We ve come full circle
in yet another loop cycle of beauty. I we knew that
and from the beginning and of course, like the story of everyone ever the end, is death
and then there is the infinity poor symbolism to consider recall that the infant
poor as the central image of the boys mansion tied into
his father's opulence, but also to the images of cycles related to Buddhism on the party
we described his house as having an infinity poor and a statue. That's Buddhist on
for the wrong reasons, the pool appears frequently at all times,
the boys repeating day the circular
misery throughout BT, such as the spiral staircase circular windows, the island in the middle of the poor and the infinity.
we'll terminology itself.
Keep us in on its connection to loops infinity and the concept of reincarnation recall
in the previous seen Naomi toxic
the idea of death as a moment of transition into the next day or life. An idea
reincarnation, and the boy agrees with her-
white light and shouted the boy in the pool, as was the boys white T shirt caused him
and purity in this vision of death as rebirth as the boy
succumbs to the water and then there
actual water inside the poor to consider water has been a thematic present throughout each year
typically appearing in art as a symbol of life, renewal or purity. Glover would do.
Rob his concept of water and multiple interviews telling tat.
magazine quote. I look at us.
like all the water droplets, every
of water on earth is looking for all the other droplets raw trying to get to the sea.
All trying to be the same water. I feel like that's people
to understand each other, where the
language or sex are all those things. That's what separates us,
from everybody else, were the only
I can look at something and see how it hurt somebody to be called a name or something and feel that empathy. That's what separates us really,
I feel like. Sometimes we lose that because the internet makes it hard to do that. We have to build that in unquote. To gloves
water presents a metaphor for us all for a dynamic,
natural poor for connection
as water moves to join other water as water.
as a source of life and seeks to connect. It comes to stand in for human nature waters.
Loan throughout b t I,
from the ocean where the boy serves and later pauses fathers ashes to the reawaken.
purpose it serve in the shower to spit
of his mouth ass. He tries to wrap, sing, speak, communicate and connect with us. Is this spit this act of communication that
comes up again with the infinity pool here, as the Althea koto begins, with Gambino wrapping worst rapid ever spent
On an open MIKE
as an imagined euphoric final resting place. Gambino
The boy seemed to want to stay in this state feeling the
inaction and humanity represented by the water as Glover was prepared
tied with the need for humanity to move forward sustainably in the time of the internet and his words to bring the
Good shit with us forward its
The water and its represent.
one of our life strive to connect is the life force,
need to survive in the future,
don't bring water are natural, pull for connection with us into the digital future. We won't survive
boy floats on the water, Naomi and Steve. Look on
if only mildly, satisfied between them
do they represent the boys romantic relationships and is hedonistic friends, both the so fly
JP or why sections of the ultra, the shotgun
boy floating in the pool also contains a few clear allusions to classic film and literature. As this,
on his underneath the water, a member,
the infamous opening scene of the nineteen, fifty film sunset Boulevard, wish
he's the narrator, Joe Gillis floating Dead and a Hollywood pool the shock,
made the dangers of Hollywood, excess and twisted love.
The narrator of the film, a writer attempted to move.
often order actress who acquired wealth from a long gone stardom in some
that boulevard shot the rule
Steve, and I owe me as onlookers, are instead policemen like F yet quota being the first
peace at the beach I world
poor scene and Sunset Boulevard was the first shot of the film and the rest
the film was conveyed through a flashback leading
to the narrators death. A narrative loops
you're. Much like we ve, discovered and b t. I
the poor shot, is also a clear allusion to the end of F, Scott Fitzgerald, nineteen, twenty five novel, the great Gatsby in climactic, conclusive scene,
Gatsby is murdered, while swimming alone in the pool of his grandiose Hamptons mansion, most notably the
Many thirteen film adaption includes a similar shot of Gatsby lifeless face from below the water, as he floats in the pool gets peace.
Suits in a novel became consumed with money, both in Essex
airing wealth and hearing is
his voice sounded money
pool is an artificial body of water and it
each year, Sunset Boulevard, an Gatsby. The pool is connected to it
I urge mansion and thus the death of Gatsby. The boy
and Joe Gillis hold similar symbolic significance of become
consumed by the structure society built around life instead of it
lily, pure source of water, something about that.
instruct the chemical additions and the wealth represented by a personal pool, taints the purity
water symbolism? Now we
serve to recognise the boys posed in the water like the album cover. He is staring directly at the camera
centering as identity, as are
or out stretch wide feet together below him in what appeal
to be a clear allusion to Jesus on the cross, he's even got.
two onlookers behind him into the sight of him, recalled it
ever tied. The death of the boys, father to the death of God, insult of Stockholm, in this case the
what would be the Christ figure, the Son of God, Glover was too
and to release because the internet, around Christmas time, applying public pressure
to his label with the support of his fans and using one of his seven instagram knows to address the situation quote
The label doesn't want me to release in December because it's not a holiday record and I'm not a big artist
started the record last Christmas. Christmas always may
you feel lonely, but to help me
restart the new year. I want
able to have this album when everything is closed when everything's
those down and quiet. So
start over unquote beyond the simple type Christ birthday
Glover focuses on the idea of a restart a rebirth.
are the loneliness who feel that the end of the year being a chance to start over this is of direct peril
for the ideas of reincarnation throughout BT and
his position as the Buddha like figured as we ve covered on a previous episode. In this way
Glover combines eastern and western notions
to find the universal figure of the boy, quite litter,
the bridging gaps and bringing varied religious symbolically together and to this threat
reincarnation, loops and cycles will recall.
the boys desire to drown because he heard it brings euphoria death
sensation of floating and release from consciousness is a mere image of birth. Of times
bent in the womb Gabby
when the boy experienced the sensation earlier on flight of the navigator when they had a dream, they were floating in envision. Utopia, universal connection, while in between life and death, do euphoria
Is it a time and presence that transcends life instead,
listing among the fluid the water.
The universe completely immersed and removed from the pain of physical life. The appeals
but he can go out the way began. Truly, this
death seem contains infinity indicative of the sin.
Of universal connection in life and death felt by Glover. But of course,
boy doesn't received. This idealized euphoric death as rebirth and
the sound of a car screeching outside breaks the vision and dude one whom he thought was a
comes in shooting killing me
their guy in shooting the boy. The irony
is that he was envisioning death, but then death
in crashing into his life. It's real,
sensation of the ever present unknowable threat of death, that instills fear and our souls. Given the brow,
of gunshots as the scripts
cuts out. We experienced the three breath
written into the end of the scene as the boys final breath. This appears to be
elected and in the song as well
A few solo snare drumhead at the end representing the shots and the pause after
its being the silence of the boy leaving her conclusions in my performances,
Webster Earth, the oldest computer, was the final song performed before an extended,
encore that span campaigners earlier musical catalogue
fittingly start with the performance of so fly. The very song interpolated north nostalgia,
The boys mansion falls into the avoided the went behind Gambino one stage, the visual,
Iser, the boys mother reappear, offering the final monologue at the shell.
you understand a kid people
afraid
the world tell your words.
The boys mother says, quote your father. Wanted you to go to camp for the summer's. I wanted you home. He thought it would be good for you
I need you to understand that kid's people theirs
afraid don't let the war
I'll tell you your worth, truth is the heart of God.
you are becoming God we are becoming God
here at the end of the show, the boys summer camp trip from his previous album camp is formerly acknowledge
just as it was at the start of the script with a boy got off the bus them.
reveals. A going to camp was his father's idea, even though she wanted him home a decoy.
me, highlighting the symbolism of both parents. We discuss throughout BT. I recall how the
boy was marked and humiliated for expressing his feelings for a girl at camp and here
his mother seems to comfort him explaining that
Actions are basted, fear that he
should rely on the world to tell him what he's worth she
and tells him way is what we are. Truth is the heart of God. You are becoming God we are becoming God.
this seems to tie into the final lines of earth progress. Only
thing that last three thousand five the year that we face
you're, only God will survive to be alone, is alive, like our indifference about,
and that die under our feet. The earth does not care about her.
individual lives, are lost.
there too short for one individual to make a significant debt and the grand scheme of the universe. Earth, like evolution, is only concerned
with progress as a means of survival.
The loneliness insignificance in fear of death. This grim reality inspires in us loom.
of the entire human experience and
The boys mother points out drive so much of our actions on earth and inspires
many to pursue the survival of me over the survival of the collective. We, as
simplified in the first half of BT, I
fear of the unknown can drive people to selfishly indulge pursue capital
access unconcerned with the survival of others, humanity and the planet,
Most extreme versions of this approach always end ended, bloodshed,
privatisation of the individual or small group over another finds us for
of a resources, ideologies and power. On the other hand, if required,
nice and understand our universal fears and the way that they connect us we can use,
them to inspire action that prioritizes the collective over the individual we can buy
to collective progress, as humanity's only great legacy. We can plant the tree for the future
and keep each other safe in the face of the existential dilemma. We can inject truth,
honesty and compassion into our systems and new technologies. So we can progress, so he can
move away from killing each other and move closer and closer.
Becoming God the
reversal, we earths computer code
individual droplets of water modernizing into a single body. If these
DE as that Gambino and the boy are beginning to figure out as they stared into the face of death here on earth, the oldest computer. The irony is just
he's on the brink of achieving a grander understanding. The answers he's been searching for
rocky tie, the boy dies and this
brings us to the title of the song earth, the oldest computer at sea,
this joint, a number of literary references and BT. This time,
the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, a series of creation
by Douglas Adams, and these works
The supernatural computer designed to answer the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything that is
This programme to solve the existential dilemma
after millions of years of calculation, the computer, whose name is deep, thought
famous. He says the meaning of life, the universe and everything is the number forty two
dismayed at its inability to even completely understand the question. Deep thought creates earth a superior computer
and designed to discover the true question after a ten million years, experience of life, this computer,
it is early, is destroyed. Five minutes before can finish its work, this
Duration appears to reflect the boys journey on BT. He tries to find it.
Answer to his existential crisis,
falls into a cycle of trying, again and again and here on earth the oldest computer
meet his doom, just as he was starting to feel a potential sustainable connection with Naomi, just as he was beginning to under
and his broader connection to others to life to earth to the universe is like some cruel, Joe
some sarcastic punchline, it's as
life itself told him where only the night air made thought, I said at the thought: TAT every guy seeds from a problem. The problem is the problem. Of course. This is life. The biggest troll Andrew aren't homer the sun
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