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Childish Gambino Releases New Music During Saturday Night Live Debut

Childish Gambino Releases New Music During Saturday Night Live Debut
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By Paula Rogo · Updated October 24, 2020
Childish Gambino is back with a bang! Donald Glover’s musical alter-ego dropped two new songs, “Saturday” and “This Is America, both of which he performed during his double-bill debut on Saturday Night Live last night. He also released an artistic video for “This Is America” in the middle of the SNL broadcast.

Childish Gambino performs "This is America" in Studio 8H. #SNL pic.twitter.com/vQXxCageZw

— Saturday Night Live - SNL (@nbcsnl) May 6, 2018
The surreal music video shows a shirtless Childish Gambino dancing and walking his way through a warehouse. At different points in the video, he pulls out an assault rifle and shoots both a hooded man in a chair and a gospel choir). There is even a SZA sighting towards the end of the video. Some are calling the visuals and lyrics an interpretation of the hectic times we live in. And fans are excited!

#ThisIsAmerica
Childish Gambino

Mesmerizing. Disturbing. Violent. Beautiful. Tragic. Materialistic. Melodic. Chaotic.https://t.co/jET1KfgRvx

— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) May 6, 2018

Summed up: The American fabric is selling distractions and superficial livelihoods, while in reality avoiding gross systematic issues that we ignore because it’s easier to live a lie than to confront the truth. #ThisIsAmerica Childish Gambino Donald Glover #PoliticsNation pic.twitter.com/rPuu5Ycsc4

— Charli Huxley (@ImKnotTheOne) May 6, 2018

Donald Glover is such a creative genius! Childish Gambino’s new music video is amazing, this boy got some mad dancing skills https://t.co/KpBN5T73k7

— Penny ✨ (@Penuel_Mashele) May 6, 2018
 
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The new music is the first that Childish Gambino has dropped since the release of his Grammy-nominated album “Awaken, My Love!” late in 2016. He has said that the next Childish Gambino album he releases will be his last.
He is set to go on tour later this fall with Rae Sremmurd and Vince Staples.