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The drought is over. Travis Scott has yet released Utopia, the long-awaited follow-up to his career-defining album, Astroworld. While immoderate person said that the 2018 album hasn’t aged well, it’s hard to reason that it didn’t marque Travis 1 of the biggest hip-hop stars of his generation. Five years aft Astroworld, Travis has dropped Utopia and a corresponding ocular project.
The medium arrived connected July 28, seemingly delayed by the Astroworld Festival tragedy. The medium contained a batch of shadiness and love: Travis proclaimed his loyalty to Kanye “Ye” West, contempt Ye’s antisemitic comments and outrageous behavior; a possible diss connected Timothée Chalamet; and adjacent an appearance by his daughter, Stormi Webster. At first, fans didn’t prime up connected immoderate animosity towards A$AP Rocky, who dissed Travis days earlier Utopia‘s merchandise by rapping however Trav “stole my flow, truthful I stole your b—ch,” referring to however Trav and Rihanna erstwhile dated.
There was adjacent immoderate shadiness by Drake, who appeared alongside Travis connected “Meltdown.” Drake dragged Pharrell Williams into his feud with Pusha-T. Drake alluded to Joopitur, Pharrell’s auction house, wherever Drake whitethorn person purchased galore of Pharrell’s erstwhile chains. “I melt down the chains that I bought from your boss,” helium raps, “Give a f–k astir each of that practice sh-t.” He besides dissed Pharrell’s relation arsenic Men’s Creative Director astatine Louis Vuitton pursuing the decease of Virgil Abloh. “Since V not around, the members done hung up the Louis, they not adjacent wearing that shit,” helium rapped, per The Fader.
This album, shadiness and all, was a agelong clip coming. “GOING TO COOK UP AND BUILD THESE WALLS FOR UTOPIA,” Travis tweeted successful October 2020, aft “Franchise,” his grounds with Young Thug and M.I.A., deed No. 1 connected the Billboard Hot 100. “SEE YOU GUYS SOON.” The aforesaid time helium tweeted that, Travis changed his Instagram bio from “Astroworld” to “Utopia,” hinting that 2021 would person seen the long-awaited follow-up.
Travis Scott performs during Day 2 of Music Midtown 2019, successful Atlanta (Shutterstock)
Travis’s Astroworld — which followed 2016’s Birds successful the Trap Sing McKnight and 2015’s Rodeo — arrived to captious acclaim and commercialized success. As of the summertime of 2021, Astroworld has been certified triple-platinum by the RIAA. It spawned a Hot 100 no. 1 successful “Sicko Mode” and contains the singles “Stargazing,” “Butterfly Effect,” “Yosemite,” and “Wake Up” (featuring The Weeknd.) Astroworld marked “the archetypal clip that his euphony has really matched the aspirations of his art-crunk bluster, rock-star signifier dives, and aisle-crossing fashions,” according to Rolling Stone’s review. Consequence praised the “immensely talented Houston native” for creating an medium afloat of “infectious” flows, though it did ding it implicit however immoderate lyrics bordered connected rap clichés (“The euphony mightiness instrumentality your enactment distant if the worst of the lyrics don’t marque you rotation your eyes”). Despite these faults, galore publications – Rolling Stone, Billboard, NME, Complex, The Guardian, etc. – enactment Astroworld on their Best Albums of 2018 lists.
So, what is the scoop on Utopia? Will it win Astroland, oregon is it a flop?
When Was Travis Scott’s New Album Released?
Travis Scott astatine the Lollapalooza euphony festival, Stockholm, Sweden, successful 2019 (Shutterstock)
Travis released Utopia on July 28. He shared the 5 antithetic medium covers successful the lead-up to the album’s arrival. “THIS IS ONE OF THE COVERS FOR MY 4TH ALBUM UTOPIA. SHOT BY PIETER HUGO,” the rapper wrote connected Instagram successful each caps. “THE JOURNEY THRU THE ALBUM TOOK ME ALL OVER THE WORLD, AND CANT WAIT TO FINALLY DROP THE ALBUM. THE MAIN COVER WILL DROP THURS. UNTIL THEN, A COVER EVERYDAY LOVE, U SEE U IN UTOPIA.”
In summation to the album, Travis released Circus Maximus, a movie that shares the aforesaid rubric arsenic 1 of the songs connected Utopia. AHHHHHH, CANT BELIEVE WE FINALLLLY HEREEEEEEEEEEEE !!! LETSSS EATTTTT CIRCUS MAXIMUS IN THEATRES ON 7/27,” helium announced with a ocular preview of the project. “I WROTE AND DIRECTED THIS ALONG SIDE WITH SOME OF MY FAVORITE DIRECTORS. WE FOUND UTOPIA AROUND THE WORLD AND CANT WAIT TO EXPERIENCE THIS WITH U SEEE U IN UTOPIA Tickets connected travisscott.com/movie.”
The medium seemed acceptable for a 2021 merchandise but was derailed by catastrophe. “It’s coming. Coming soon. You tin stake that,” Travis said of his medium erstwhile talking with Robert Rodriguez for i-D magazine successful February 2021. During the chat, Robert mentioned the chances of Travis bringing backmost his Astroworld festival present that concerts and unrecorded euphony events person resumed. “Hopefully, we tin bring it backmost astatine the extremity of this year,” said Scott. “Around November.”
The Astroworld performance did hap successful November, but the performance resulted successful tragedy aft a assemblage surge during Travis’s acceptable resulted successful 10 radical being killed and 25 hospitalized with superior injuries. In June 2023, a Grand Jury successful Texas declined to indict Travis, meaning helium wouldn’t look immoderate transgression charges implicit the incident. With that contented resolved, it seemed that Travis was wide to merchandise his long-awaited project.
What Is Travis Scott’s New Album Called?
Travis Scott revealed successful August 2020 that his medium would beryllium called Utopia. He tweeted an representation of a hand-written enactment commemorating the two-year day of Astroworld. “Happy Astroversary. A 2-year thrust that’s inactive 1 of my favorites! The medium means truthful overmuch to me!! To everyone that bumps and rages to that soundtrack, I emotion you. Let’s support the thrust going. See you successful Utopia.”
Happy Astroversary pic.twitter.com/7JiT35ji72
— TRAVIS SCOTT (@trvisXX) August 4, 2020
GOING TO GO COOK UP AND BUILD THESE WALLS FOR UTOPIA. SEE YOU GUYS SOON.
— TRAVIS SCOTT (@trvisXX) October 5, 2020
What Does Travis Scott’s New Album Sound Like?
Early reviews of Utopia were mixed.
Variety’s Yousef Srour and Jem Aswald said that it was “worth the wait” and that Utopia ”couldn’t spend to beryllium thing but a large philharmonic advancement, and he’s delivered.” The album, per the review, “advances melodic hip-hop into caller terrain…[Travis’s] philharmonic adventurousness and diverseness is vividly connected show here. Where Astroworld brought spectacle, Utopia brings subtlety and innovation.”
Insider was little kind. While Variety noted that Utopia showed however it was inspired by Kanye “Ye” West, Insider’s Barnaby Lane called it a “Yeezy clone” and that the medium “misses the mark.” Utopia, writes Lane, “was expected to beryllium the defining enactment of his career, an experimental, genre-defying grounds that helium said would embody however radical tin “create vigor that spews retired magical things. Instead, what Scott delivers is simply a poorly-paced, mostly unimaginative Yeezus rehash that feels stuck 10 years successful the past.”
Utopia drew a batch of comparisons to Yeezus, wherever the second trended connected Twitter.
“I ne'er archer radical this, and I’m astir apt going to support it a concealed still, but I’m moving with immoderate caller people, and I’m conscionable trying to grow the sound,” Travis said successful that i-D interview. “I’ve been making beats again, rapping connected my ain beats, conscionable putting everything unneurotic and trying to turn it, really. That’s been 1 of the astir amusive things astir moving connected this album. I’m evolving, collaborating with caller people, delivering a full caller sound, a full caller range.”
“It’s ne'er astir repeating myself,” helium said aboriginal successful the interview. “I’m conscionable trying to marque the adjacent saga… each medium is similar a saga.
Who Is Featured On Travis Scott’s New Album?
Travis Scott astatine the 2019 AstroWorld Festival (Shutterstock)
Utopia has 19 antithetic featured artists. Beyoncé and Bon Iver (“Delresto (Echoes)”), James Blake and Westside Gunn (“Lost Forever”), 21 Savage (“Til Further Notice”), Bad Bunny and The Weeknd (“K-Pop,” “Circus Maximus”), Future and SZA (“Telekinesis”), Bon Iver and Sampha (“My Eye”), Playboi Carti and Shek Wes (“Fe!n”), 21 Savage and Rob49 (“Topia Twins”), KayCyy and Swae Lee (“Thank God,” “Sirens”), Drake (“Meltdown”), Teezo Touchdown (“Modern Jam”), Yung Lean (“Parasail”), Yung Thug (“Skitzo”), Kid Cudi (“Looove”) and adjacent Dave Chapelle, doing a spoken connection show connected “Parasail.”
Travis lone appears solo connected 3 songs. The album’s accumulation credits see a batch of dense hitters: Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Kanye West, Boi-1da, Tay Keith, Justin Vernon, Wheezy, Jahaan Sweet, The Alchemist, Metro Boomin, 30 Roc, and Travis himself, per Rolling Stone.
Travis and Kylie’s daughter, Stormi Webster, also appeared connected the album.
With a roster that would marque DJ Khaled blush, immoderate person criticized however Travis’s albums don’t ever item Travis. “That’s lone ever been my 1 bony to prime with Travis,” wrote civilization writer Trey Alson. “If helium was a chef, he’s the 1 that overseasons the steak to fell the information that forgot to navigator it mean rare.”
That’s lone ever been my 1 bony to prime with Travis. If helium was a chef, he’s the 1 that overseasons the steak to fell the information that forgot to navigator it mean uncommon https://t.co/9u4e2Jccp6
— Trey! (@treyals) July 28, 2023
Astroworld, similar the famed taxable parkland of Travis’ childhood, was besides afloat of guests who came to play. Frank Ocean (“Carousel”), Drake (“Sicko Mode”), Swae Lee (“Sicko Mode”/”R.I.P. Screw”), Juice Wrld (“No Bystanders”), Tame Impala (“Skeletons”), Pharrell (“Skeletons”), Gunna (“Yosemite”), Quavo and Takeoff (“Who? What!”) were conscionable immoderate of the stars featured connected the album.
Since Astroworld, Travis has worked with a batch of people: SZA (“Power Is Power”), Ed Sheeran (“Antisocial”), Rosalía (“TKN”), Future (“First Off”), Schoolboy Q (“Chopstix”). He besides debuted The Scotts, his task with Kid Cudi. Travis besides lent his vocals to “Wash Us successful The Blood,” a way from Kanye West’s (as of June 2021) inactive unreleased Donda album.
What Songs Are On Travis Scott’s New Album?
UTOPIA TRACKLIST INCLUDES:
1) HYAENA
2) THANK GOD
3) MODERN JAM
4) MY EYES
5) GOD’S COUNTRY
6) SIRENS
7) MELTDOWN
8) FE!N
9) DELRESTO (ECHOES)
10) I KNOW ?
11) TOPIA TWINS
12) CIRCUS MAXIMUS
13) PARASAIL
14) SKITZO
15) LOST FOREVER
16) LOOOVE
17) K-POP
18) TELEKINESIS
19) TIL FURTHER NOTICE
Surprisingly, Travis didn’t see “Highest In The Room,” his 2020 chart-topping single, connected Utopia. Other songs not progressive are “TKN,” “Franchise,” “Down In Atlanta,” “Ring Ring,” “Mafia,” and “Escape Plan.”
Utopia is here! Was it worthy the wait?
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