S7E2 - Crawl by Childish Gambino

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.9 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We continue our season-long examination of Because The Internet with the album’s opening song “Crawl.” Here we meet the album’s protagonist The Boy - a Black, rich internet troll who lives in a glass-walled mansion on top of a hill.

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0:00.0	Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative
0:07.0	and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with creative
0:11.9	friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.
0:16.0	And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.
0:21.0	Ready to spark something? Download the Sims 4 and play for free.
0:29.1	From Spotify, this is Dissect. Long Form Musical Analysis,
0:33.0	Broken Into Short Digestible Episodes.
0:35.5	I'm your host, Cole Kushner. Today we
0:55.0	begin our serialized analysis of Because the Internet by Childish Gambino.
0:56.0	On our last episode, we surveyed the wide variety of art forms
1:00.0	like film, writing, design, performance art, and music, Donald Glover used to construct this
1:05.8	transmedia world.
1:07.8	By weaving together physical, Sonic, visual, and online material, Glover
1:12.6	wove a web of art to catch our invested attention,
1:15.8	encouraging exploration, conversation, and connection.
1:19.6	People trying to make you be like, no, live with this,
1:21.6	like, no, you got to build a bigger world. I'm not going to make you be like no live with this like no you got to build a bigger
1:22.7	world I'm not gonna make an album I'm gonna make the rollout dope I'm gonna make
1:27.6	the movie with it dope I'm gonna make everything dope make a world because the thing is
1:31.3	like album it doesn't mean anything.
1:33.8	Music doesn't mean, it means as much as you put into it and we don't have time to put anything
1:38.5	into it.
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