This fan favorite from the 2018 Childish Gambino tour was infuriatingly absent from 3.15.20. Plus, “Why Go To The Party?” served as an intro to “Human Sacrifice” on Gambino’s 2018 tour. The song is a more meaningful intro than the sparse “0.00,” and its sadness is recapitulated later in this revised tracklist, giving the album’s gloomier songs more weight. Multi-tracked vocals sing “ Grief is a standing ocean/ I never swam unless you did” over sorrowful piano lines. The Resequenced 3.15.20 opens with moody interlude “Why Go To the Party?,” on which Glover mourns the death of his father. With the help of some “leaked” song titles floating around the internet (what’s up, r/donaldglover), here is an attempt to finish 3.15.20. Glover pulls off many styles throughout 3.15.20, often at the same time, and it’s possible he was just a resequencing and some proper song titles away from a great album. Still, there are plenty of great songs and ideas here. Then again, 3.15.20 and its direct themes and messages aren’t exactly written in Hopelandic.Īfter a series of thematically and sonically holistic projects, Gambino’s latest album is maddeningly inconsistent. One might expect these numerically titled songs to feel unfinished, like the date-time titled tracks on Kendrick Lamar’s B-sides collection Untitled Unmastered, but how does that explain the half-baked live staple “Algorhythm” earning a proper title over “42.26,” which was already released as “Feels Like Summer?” Perhaps, then, Glover wanted to leave his solid white covered album up to listeners’ interpretation à la Sigur Rós’ ().
But Childish Gambino projects have always come with plenty of context-yes, even if you didn’t read the 70-page screenplay that accompanied Because the Internet.ģ.15.20, on the other hand, begs for explanation. Glover famously lets his art speak for itself, refusing, for instance, to offer any commentary on his 2018 single “This Is America” or its stunningly provocative music video. Uploaded to streaming services as 3.15.20 a week later, the record’s tracklist mostly consists of timestamps rather than actual song titles. On March 15th, while the world as we knew it was ending, Donald Glover quietly posted his fourth album as Childish Gambino to as a looping live stream.
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