He attacked the market without leaving even a crumb to his opponents. Travis Scott is now on everyone’s lips and in the footnotes of any magazine. Just released his new album Utopia ranked first in Top Of The Music FIMI/Gfk Italia. In the rest of the world we are close. After spending June 30 in Milan for a concert at which crazy numbers were recorded, he returns tomorrow to Italy, this time in Rome, no less than in the Circus Maximus, where he will play and sing songs from the new work for the first time: 19 tracks of 75 minutes of music, more or less. There was talk of aggression, because in every sense his appearance is explosive, at this moment he cannot be overlooked.
ANNOUNCEMENT the Roman date arrived only a week before the live date; shortly before his first film was released to the US market, Circus Maximus: Directed by visionary creators from Harmony Korine to Khalil Joseph, everything is based on breathtaking scenes with effects, lightning-fast sets, elaborate images, innovative impenetrable editing techniques. Lots and lots of scenes. Scott accustomed us to extreme situations and stunning data: his previous work Astroworld boasts 22 platinum records worldwide, and recently announced a mega-event at the Pyramids of Giza, scheduled for July, but with nuances, during which he will introduce fans to new works . There was talk of aggression, because in every sense his appearance is explosive, at this moment he cannot be overlooked.
Utopia this is the fourth record of the two-year-old native of Houston, Texas, by far the most important. This really establishes a strong position – that is, for him the physical aspect, muscles matter more than the soul – and comes almost two years after that tragic November 5, 2021, when they lost eleven people during the Astroworld festival. his life to the unruly crowd. 19 songs, 19 guests and many more producers. Everything and everything is here: from Beyoncé to Pharrell Williams, from Kanye West to Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo of Daft Punk, to James Blake and even Bon Iver. Hyena give the sample to Gentle Giant’s Proclamation; tribal rhythms in “Sirens” take us back to the darkest Africa; but returns to earth in a trap My eyes. First single from the album K-pop with Bad Bunny and The Weeknd.
DIVERSITY styles, effort in staging, the role of Travis Scott, more of a conductor than an interpreter, are the hallmarks of this work, which he declared to be the prism of psychedelic rock. But it’s not like that, it’s more of a continuously refined music, sounded in great detail: as if Michael Jackson or even Prince or, if you know it, Kanye West have grappled with these somewhat commercial styles. But the difference with these names lies solely in the content, in the soul, in the bowels and in the urgent need to communicate, and not to expose one’s ambitions.