All America is discussing the new clip of Childish Gambino. Why?

Trying to unravel all riddles encrypted in it

The American actor and musician Donald Glover, known under the stage pseudonym Childish Gambino, released the video “This is America” - a reasoning about the life of blacks in modern United States. The director of the video is Hiro Murai, who worked with Glover on his comedy series "Atlanta" . In a four -minute video, Glover dances like Michael Jackson and kills people as a religious fanatic. The clip is not only phenomenally watching (in two days - more than 35 million views on Yetube), but also violently solve it. Medusa talks about the most interesting finds.

The creation of the new American school Young Thug, Rae Sremmund and 21 Savage participated in the creation of the track. The video also noticed the singer SZA. The image of the Glover, which appears in the clip to the waist with naked and in old -fashioned trousers, the audience considered it a reference to the cult of Nigerian musician Fel Kuti. In the dancing of Glover, some movements of Michael Jackson were seen , and in the text and music - quotes from James Brown.

You will not miss the main idea of ​​“This is america”: Glover reports that the black population still oppresses the USA, and the picture of a beautiful American life is often deceiving and distracting from real problems. Other meanings turned out to be less obvious, but they can also be reached after repeated views of the video.

At the beginning of the clip, Glover shoots a black guitarist with a bag on his head. The rapper aims at his head, somehow unnaturally curved. This is a hint of Jim Crowe, a popular character depicted by street musicians, speaking at American fairs in the 19th century. The name Crowe was later used in the States as a contemptuous nickname for all blacks. The laws on racial segregation, operating in some states until the 1960s, were unofficially called the laws of Jim Crowe .

Glover also shoots from a machine gun of black parishioners of the church, after which he returns to dancing and singing. This episode refers to the murder of nine African -Americans in the methodist episcopal church of Emanuel in Charleston, South Carolina, in June 2015. The killer, the 21-year-old White American Dylan Ruf, confirmed that he had gone to crime on the basis of racial hatred. He was sentenced to death, he expects the execution of punishment in prison.

The Forbes observer Edrian Gibbs counted at least ten types of dances that Glover performs with the support group. Among them are the popular shocks and Guar Guar popular in South Africa (some of their elements loves Rihanna). The journalist draws attention to the fact that the police do not kill and does not pursue in this video only those who are dancing; Perhaps the dance is the only symbolic protection against violence.

At some point, a horse on a horse appears in the clip in the background. He is considered a quote from the biblical revelation of John the Theologian: “And I looked, and now, the horse is pale, and on it the rider, to whom the name“ Death ”; And Hell followed him. ” Hell, following the death on a horse, in the video “This is America” is a police car.

Weapons in the video appreciate more human life. After each murder, a young man runs up to Glover, who carefully takes the weapon and wraps it in a red scarf. At the same time, the corpses either remain in their places, or they are casually dragged from the frame.

Toward the end, cars appear in the video. Unlike the video of modern rappers, where chic expensive cars usually demonstrate, all these are used brands of the 1980-1990s. Journalists decided that this is a very accurate metaphor: in fact, most Americans use just such old cars, where cassette radio radio systems are still installed instead of modern audio systems.

In the final scene, Donald Glover runs away from the crowd chasing him in horror. The Huffington Post publication saw in this a quote from the horror film “ Away ” directed by Jordan saw. One of the readers of BuzzFeed noticed that Glover began to pursue not after the murders committed by them, but only after he smokes a jamb. “Another black one is trying to save his life from the police, pursuing him for smoking the grass. This is America, ”she concluded.

Donald Glover does not comment on the guesses of the audience. In the fall of 2018, the musician intends to release a new album, which will include “This is America”; After that, he is going to abandon the pseudonym Childish Gambino.

Alexander Filimonov