When word got out that Travis Scott would finally be dropping his long-awaited album “Utopia”, I was almost convinced that he actually wouldn’t be dropping it on that date. I had been hurt too many times.
It turns out that Travis wasn’t lying. Together with Alex, here is a photo collection of our reactions to the first listen of Utopia. If you still haven’t listened to Utopia, feel free to listen along with our reactions.
We are ready for battle.HYAENA showed early promise for the album.We weren’t the only ones ready for Utopia.
Not pictured: THANK GOD. I think it’s the best song on the album.
We couldn’t figure out who was the guest feature on MODERN JAM. It was Teezo Touchdown.MY EYES had us fooled in the first half, not gonna lie.Then Sampha hops on the track before Travis goes all in with his verse.GOD’S COUNTRY is a little silly.The first of many ‘where is Don Toliver ?’ from Alex.SIRENS is a little silly.SIRENS is very silly.Drake.BNYX did an incredible job with the second beat. The tie fighter sample is hard.3 beats, just like SICKO MODE.I did not believe it was Carti at the beginning of FE!N. It actually was not Carti.Mike Dean did not produce this beat.POV: you just walked into the Dracula final boss fight in Castlevania and FE!N starts playing.Like everyone else, we could not figure out who was on the second half of the song.We still couldn’t figure it out.Genius was wrong.
Not pictured: DELRESTO (ECHOES). It was not very interesting.
The cleanest production on the album goes to I KNOW?.The relaxed, calm vibe of I KNOW? is suddenly cut by the brazen TOPIA TWINS.21 Savage.TOPIA TWINS is suddenly cut off by Swae Lee.Me personally, I have never had my airpods go out of sync.
Not pictured: PARASAIL. It was a nice interlude.
We place our bets on how many beat switches SKITZO will have.The first beat switch.I won the beat switch bet, with 3.Westside Gunn makes his appearance on the album, along with his classic adlibs.I don’t know why Alex typed LOONA. Made me think LOONA was on the track or something.The weird sounds of LOOOVE are ended with a solid Kid Cudi verse.
Not pictured: K-POP. We skipped it.
TELEKINESIS sounds like a radar pinging the location of an object.Alex is still hoping for a Don Toliver feature. And we can’t forget about NAV.SZA finishes TELEKINESIS with a beautiful verse.Genius was very confused.Metro Boomin delivers with a classic Metro beat.21 Savage is back.Don Toliver was in fact, not on Utopia.
