Only Childish Gambino Could Make Anxiety About Declining Bee Populations And Water Scarcity Sound Sexy

There probably isn't an artist alive who could simultaneously make the summer seem like a total drag and eerily pretty. Than again, Childish Gambino isn't most artists. On Wednesday (July 11), Gambino released Summer Pack, which saw the Atlanta renaissance man deliver two songs — "Summertime Magic" and "Feels Like Summer" — about the hottest season. The latter of the pack is where Childish uses the metaphor of summer to illustrate a growing list of anxieties.


Here is a short tally of everything Gambino is worried about: over-reliance on algorithms, global warming, water scarcity, the reject of bird and bee populations. The complete second verse deals with these overwhelming feelings of angst and dread.

Every day gets hotter than the one before

Running out of water, it's about to go down

Go down

Air that kill the bees that we depend upon

Birds were made for singing

Waking up to no sound

No sound

In fairness to Gambino, the bees are indeed dying. A 2017 study by the Center For Biological Diversity of 4,337 North American and Hawaiian native bees noticed that "nearly 1 in 4 (347 native bee species) is imperiled and at increasing risk of extinction, as a result of agricultural intensification, climate change, and urbanization." As far as water goes, the UN announced that 5 billion people might suffer from water shortages by 250, by means of the The Guardian.


Welp, "This Is America" right considering that, and at least the apocalypse might be soundtracked by Gambino's sweet falsetto.