Song of the week (4/9/2023)

Edge of the earth/post mordem boredom – Kid Cudi. When this album first came out Kid Cudi got a lot of hate for it, I believe he blocked comments on a lot of the content about this album on twitter, I didn’t bother to listen to this album due to the negative reviews until around the pandemic on a whim because it was billed to me as a grunge cudi album and I was curious to hear what that sounded like. I must admit this is my favorite Kid Cudi albums besides kids see ghosts which is a masterpiece start to finish but I really like this album and even though this may not be my favorite track in the album I really like both parts of this song and think they have a strong connection to each other. The way I intrepet it is that the narrartor is going to kill himself in edge of the earth and is looking back at his life before deciding to go through with it, and post mordem boredom is what he feels about the after life. I still love speeding bullet to heaven and usually when artists do something so unlike what the usually do the fans will not appreciate it and it seems that was certaintly the case with most of Cudi’s fan base on Speeding bullet but I really appreciate this album and wish he would have made more music like this. His new albums have been okay to good but this one always stands out to me as a true gem. I really wish he would try to make more music in this style since the release but I am thankful he released this knowing it likely was not going to be recieved well by most of his fanbase. It takes guts to do something as an artist so different from the norm knowing it may not be recieved as well as you’d hope. I for one love this album and this track is still something I play often.