Listenup: Song of the week
Donald Glover offers two for the summer.
Donald Glover’s “This Is America” may be one of the year’s most affecting songmusic video combination, but it’s a little too heavy to be a song-of-the-summer contender, engaging as it may be. To satisfy listeners looking for a more lighthearted kind of summertime banger, Glover, known to some by stage name
Childish Gambino, shared the “Summer Pack EP” Wednesday, a pair of songs that are the pina coladas to the shot of whiskey that is “This Is America” – uncomplicated and vaguely tropical, they go down easy. “Summertime Magic” is the highlight of the two, which has Glover doing his best Adam Levine impression over steel drums and a gently swaying beat. The other track is aptly titled “Feels Like Summer.”