{"id":1018,"date":"2025-04-26T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/street-interviews-on-playboi-cartis-new-album-music\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T16:46:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T16:46:14","slug":"street-interviews-on-playboi-cartis-new-album-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tmbglobal.news\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/street-interviews-on-playboi-cartis-new-album-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Street interviews on Playboi Carti\u2019s new album \u2018MUSIC\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"perfmatters-lazy-youtube\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZUKYaGVkY1g\" data-id=\"ZUKYaGVkY1g\" data-query=\"start=1&amp;feature=oembed\" onclick=\"perfmattersLazyLoadYouTube(this);\">\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ZUKYaGVkY1g\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ann Arbor Reacts to Playboi Carti\u2019s \u2018MUSIC\u2019 Album\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZUKYaGVkY1g?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On the first day of COVID-19 Christmas, my vamp king gave to me \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One <em>Whole Lotta Red<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>Hailed as a modern-day classic, <em>Whole Lotta Red <\/em>became rage-rap\u2019s Bible, cementing Playboi Carti\u2019s head-thrashing, scuzzed-out electronics and baby-voiced goblin gargles as the subgenre\u2019s gold standard. It\u2019s an album that takes the communal, claustrophobic club mosh atmosphere of 2018\u2019s <em>Die Lit<\/em> and constricts it. What\u2019s left is a pit of bloodied, crystalline permafrost where a vampiric, uber-wealthy and uber-horny entity squeals mantras through diamond fangs, holed-up and sunless. The beats and hooks are flashier by comparison, accelerating the supercharged, repetitive punk song cycle to its limit.\u00a0This is why every song has become prime TikTok product \u2014 you could slice and dice <em>Whole Lotta Red<\/em> any which way, and it will still retain its icy shimmer and earworminess. \u201cStop breathing!\u201d, \u201cDon\u2019t talk to me!\u201d, \u201cI\u2019m way too high\u201d and \u201cThis love don\u2019t feel how it felt when we started\u201d have soundtracked an isolated, chronically online, cave-dwelling generation\u2019s journey in \u2014 and out \u2014 of cyberspace.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yet as prolific as <em>Whole Lotta Red<\/em> has become, the vamp king behind its creation has remained an enigma. His next album <em>MUSIC<\/em> was teased through a cryptic Instagram post here or there; or an announcement of some album which would get scrapped Kanye-style; or the meager helping of a feature rapped in either high-pitched goblin mode or Future mode; or the teaser single \u201cALL RED.\u201d The 30-track megalodon landed at 7 a.m. on a Friday to many an anguished listener, who immediately went on social media to post a number out of 30 signifying the number of tracks they added to their playlists (mine was 15\/30).\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Because of Playboi Carti\u2019s diehard fanbase and widespread online appeal, I took to the streets to interview the vamps of Ann Arbor on what they thought of the project. The answers will shock you!<\/p>\n<p><em>Daily Arts Writer Zachary Taglia can be reached at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/multimedia\/videos\/ann-arbor-reacts-to-playboi-cartis-music-album\/mailto:ztaglia@umich.edu\">ztaglia@umich.edu<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Videographer &amp; Editor: Maximilian Thompson<\/em><\/p>\n<aside>\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related articles<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first day of COVID-19 Christmas, my vamp king gave to me \u2026\u00a0 One Whole Lotta Red! Hailed as a modern-day classic, Whole Lotta Red became rage-rap\u2019s Bible, cementing Playboi Carti\u2019s head-thrashing, scuzzed-out electronics and baby-voiced goblin gargles as the subgenre\u2019s gold standard. 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