In the middle of his appearance as a host and musical guest for Saturday Night Live, Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) dropped a video for his new single called "This Is America." The music video is set in a chaotic warehouse and features a lot of symbolism, particularly Glover's commentary on gun violence.
The clip and song starts out nice enough, with a choral arrangement, lovely rhythms and a soothing guitar. It's a bop! Wait. It's a different kind of bop. It turns into a gore-ish spectacle that juxtaposes homeland terrorism and riots in the backdrop of outwardly happy people doing the latest dance moves with impeccable quality. Curiously, none of the dancing people, who are all in uniform, are seemingly touched by all the violence. They dance and dance, either willfully ignoring the violence around them or perhaps prayerfully ignoring the violence surrounding them. Or distracting from it.
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Watch the full music video below.
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