thisisinsider | Like much of Glover's work, "This is America" is cryptic and loaded
with shocking imagery and metaphor. The track's tone swerves from
happy-go-lucky psalmic readings to more alarming verses. In typical
Glover fashion, he dismissed close readings of his work in an interview
at the Met Gala Monday night.
"I just wanted to make a good song," Glover told E!. "Like something that people could play on Fourth of Julys."
Directed by his frequent "Atlanta" collaborator Hiro Murai
and choreographed by Sherrie Silver, the music video touches on gun
violence, the precarious state of black bodies in the US, and how we've
historically used entertainment to distract us from pervasive cultural
and political problems. But the music video's iconoclastic images and
many layers deserve close examination to fully parse.
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