Just Floating

I listened to Sober and it’s just there. No effort showing. Donald Glover floating over something like Michael Jackson, singing about something minor and romantic without making a thing about it. That’s the whole point. He’s done it so many times by now that he doesn’t even have to announce what he’s doing. Act in a TV show, make an album, direct a film, whatever. Just move between them like they’re not different languages.

The song is airy. Loose. It doesn’t try to prove anything, which is maybe the only way to actually prove anything anymore. Most artists are so busy showing you why they matter that they forget to just exist in the work. Glover remembers. This is just a guy singing, and that’s enough because he’s actually good.