I liked Nice Guys a lot. Need to rewatch it sometime.

:/

I think he was just saying that it looked good, not that it was safe or okay.

I haven't listened to it yet, but it's gotten near-unanimously positive reviews, so I'm a bit surprised to hear that. Huh.

The Ministry of Magic? I think it's deliberate that they end up being idiots and cowards who are easily overthrown by the nazi stand-ins.

I didn't like "Heartbeat" as much as the other tracks when I first heard it, but in retrospect it's one of the best on the album. His flow on it is great.

Well, at the time, saying so would get roughly the same reaction as proclaiming Macklemore the best rapper alive

And thank god he was. "Twist and Shout" has one of the greatest vocal performances ever.

BTI actually reminds me a lot more of Radiohead than this (which is part of why I love it). I can't honestly say that I think Awaken My Love is as good as BTI, but it has some really extraordinary high points and it grows on me with each listen.

"Glenn Tipton" is the song off that album that blew me away when I first heard it. I put on the album knowing it was his most acclaimed and went "okay, show me what you've got," and he immediately destroyed me with the melody of the first line.

Buzz
a hysterical little pill

It was the joke lyrics that initially hooked me - I wasn't used to hearing rappers reference Sufjan Stevens or Radiohead in their punchlines, and it made for a nice entry into the genre - but at a certain point the music started to become legitimately really interesting, which sustained my fandom after I grew out of…

I remember when he dropped "Centipede" in the lead-up to BTI and the AV Club ran an article about how "this is what he left Community for, hope it's worth it!" and the comments were all trashing it, despite the song's massive artistic leap forward.

I'm glad he's sticking with it - by making 'Childish Gambino' into a respectable name he sort of reaffirms that, yeah, he's been serious about this for a while now. If he'd put this out under something different it would seem like "oh, he was just fucking around before, but now he's getting serious."

That cover is wonderful.

Begin the Begin kicks so much ass.

I felt like I was taking crazy pills when I saw BTI's metacritic score - it got worse reviews than Camp, despite being an improvement in every way! Hopefully the reception to AML causes some people to revisit it, it's one of my favorite albums of the '10s.

"Telegraph Ave" should have been a massive hit.

I didn't think the script was awful, but it was definitely kind of pretentious, and his dedication to the whole surrounding concept overshadowed how fantastic the songs themselves were. I didn't need an explanation for the plot, the album is so well-sequenced that it feels like a movie in itself.

My other comment got stopped by the automoderator, so I'll rephrase: