The plan, as it stands right now, is continue Record Club until at least Week 1000, and then reevaluate from there. Week 1000 is almost exactly fifteen years from right now, so we have some time to really let this play out. It's wild to think about where we'll all be in fifteen years, ya know? I usually frame future-watching as "my oldest will be ___ years old," but, like, I can't imagine Willow at nineteen years old. My brain just stops working trying to think about it. The only thing I know for sure is that she'll be writing album reviews by that point. ANYWAYS, welcome back to Record Club. Try to enjoy these next fifteen years, because they're gonna move fast.
GALIA'S COMMENTS: "As Burna Boy has risen to fame, I am one of the new fans he has gained. Songs from his latest album, Love, Damini, have been in my constant music shuffle. I first wanted to pick Love, Damini, however I chose one of his other famous albums to: A) expand my musical horizons because I haven't listened to any songs on this album yet, and B) to spare this group from an artist featured on one of the songs on Love, Damini, who, after Sam Smith week, I found out this group doesn't fancy very much."
Record Club:
WEEK 219 — April 9-15, 2023
African Giant
by Burna Boy
LISTEN:
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PICKED BY GALIA
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ALBUM DETAILS
GENRE: Afrobeat, dancehall, pop, hip hop
RELEASED: July 26, 2019
LENGTH: 60:00
TRACKLIST:
- African Giant
- Anybody
- Wetin Man Go Do
- Dangote
- Gum Body
- Killen Dem
- Omo
- Secret
- Collateral Damage
- Another Story
- Pull Up
- Blak Ryno (Skit)
- Destiny
- Different
- Gbona
- On the Low
- Show & Tell
- This Side
- Spiritual
LYRICS: Genius.com, and Burna Boy himself does some notations for the song "Anybody."
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ARTIST DETAILS
PRONOUNS: he/him
ABOUT: Burna Boy was born Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu, on July 2, 1991, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. His grandfather was Fela Kuti's manager, so his Afrobeat bona fides are secured. After a few mixtapes, he released his studio album debut in 2013, with the hit single "Like to Party." He soon thereafter opened his own record label, Spaceship Entertainment. He's won various awards, and just this year, Rolling Stone ranked him number 197th greatest singer of all time.
DISCOGRAPHY: African Giant is the fourth of six studio albums for Burna Boy. As noted above, debut album L.I.F.E was released in 2013. And as Galia noted, Love, Damini is his most recent, released in July 2022.
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ADDITIONAL INFO
READING SOME SHIT: NME has a good feature from 2020 (in which Burna Boy's publicist swiftly ends the interview after the interviewer asks Burna Boy about Beyoncé's Lion King soundtrack)
WATCHING SOME SHIT: Here's his Tiny Desk Concert, featuring three songs from African Giant.
RECORD CLUB WHEN THIS ALBUM WAS RELEASED: We were listening to Wasteland, Baby! by Hozier, and Joe, Nate, Bridget, Sean, and Pam all wrote reviews (Sunny wrote his a couple years later). Damn, I was just listening to a Hozier interview on XPN the other day, and really enjoyed it... more than his music anyway.
PREVIOUSLY ON RECORD CLUB: There's which RC artists he has worked with directly: Future has a feature on this album; he was featured on a Fall Out Boy song in 2018; as mentioned above, he has a song on that Beyoncé / Lion King thing that everyone seems to want to forget about.
There are geographically-related RC artists: Burna Boy shares the continent of Africa with Wells Fargo, 340ml, and Amadou Balaké. He's closest distance-wise to Amadou; he's closest chronology-wise to 340ml; he's closest politically to Wells Fargo.
Then there are the RC artists who are related for arbitrary vocabulary reasons, in this particular case all those artists and albums who have a general word that means a type of human (e.g. "boy" in Burna Boy): Wasteland, Baby!, The Lost Boy, Man It Feels like Space Again, Any Human Friend, The Highwomen, U.S. Girls, Watermelon Man!, Wild like Children, Former Child Actor, Destiny's Child, Daughter, OK Human, Sound the People, Fishmans, Fall Out Boy, Of Monsters and Men, the Arrogant Sons of Bitches, Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, Taximen, and These Are Good People, among others.
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Happy listening, RC family!
Have a great week!
Have a great week!
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