The album debuted at number four on the Billboard 200, selling 104,000 copies in its first week of release in the United States. Aside from being included on critics list of the best albums of the year, Man on the Moon: The End of Day received three Grammy Awards nominations. The album received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised it for its music composition and different approach to being a hip-hop record. To further promote the album, he toured with Asher Roth and Lady Gaga, respectively. Man on the Moon: The End of Day spawned three singles-" Day 'n' Nite", " Make Her Say" and " Pursuit of Happiness"-that attained chart success and US platinum-certifications. Production was handled by several high-profile record producers, including Kanye West, Emile Haynie, Plain Pat, No I.D., Dot da Genius, and Jeff Bhasker, among others. A concept album, narrated by fellow American rapper Common, it follows the release of his first full-length project A Kid Named Cudi (2008), and is the first installment of the Man on the Moon trilogy.
It was released on September 15, 2009, through Dream On, GOOD Music, and Universal Motown Records. His music might still be relatable, but it has never sounded so cliché.Man on the Moon: The End of Day is the debut studio album by American rapper Kid Cudi. Kid Cudi’s ability to be an avatar for people’s struggles with mental illness has always been central to his appeal. This tidy arc, which moves from dark to light and resolves easily, coupled with the pompous title and division of the album into several acts (in accordance with MOTM custom) gives Man on the Moon III: The Chosen the faux-epic scope of an Avengers movie. By the end, Cudi has renewed his lease on life “shit is gravy,” he concludes on the finale “Lord I Know.” Rager.” Over the course of the second half of The Chosen, the production palette lightens and hedges closer to the blend of indie rock, synth-pop, and hip hop that defined the first two MOTM albums. The narrative premise Man on the Moon III: The Chosen is more half-baked according to the album’s jacket copy, “in one night, must face himself again and fight to win back his soul from the evil Mr.
Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts, and parodies he has no reason to exist.” “Show Out” is music, not a fictional Italian scoundrel, which means that its existence is not simply relative, but offensive.Ģ010’s Man on the Moon II successfully developed the themes of its predecessor - hedonism, fame, and depression collide - resulting in the creation of Cudi’s destructive alter-ego Mr. The mind-boggling degrees of bastardization, which begin with Cudi’s own influence on Scott, recall “I, We, Waluigi: A Post-Modern Analysis of Waluigi” : “You invert Mario to create Wario - Mario turned septic and libertarian - then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others. The worst song on The Chosen is “Show Out” (featuring Pop Smoke and Skepta), which attempts to graft Scott’s style onto contemporary drill a la “GATTI,” except with a knock-off 808Melo beat. The pathos of the album’s bleakest five-song stretch, from “Another Day” to “Heaven On Earth,” becomes diminished in the distracting presence of Travis-esque ad-libs, cadences, Autotuned hum crescendos, and gothic minor-key synths.
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“Feeling something, I can’t ignore my instincts,” he hum-sings on the opener “Tequila Shots,” “back just where I started, it’s the same old damaged song.” The Chosen comes full circle in another way-in its first half, Cudi cribs aggressively from his most commercially successful acolyte, Travis Scott. Once again, he sends a beleaguered dispatch from the center of an emotional typhoon. Once again, with his latest album Man on the Moon III: The Chosen, Cudi sends a beleaguered dispatch from the center of an emotional typhoon. Cudi’s latest album Man on the Moon III: The Chosenshows that he’s still something of a pop wizard who possesses the knack for both melodrama and earworm melodies.
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