10 Things You Need To Know About Travis Scott's 'Utopia'
10 Things You Need to Know About Travis Scott's 'Utopia'
LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 07: Travis Scott performs at The O2 Arena on August 07, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Lorne Thomson/Redferns)
It looks like Travis Scott is getting ready to drop a new album.
Earlier this month, fans spotted cryptic billboards in California that seemed to tease new music from Travis. Then Travis changed his Instagram bio from Astroworld to Utopia, which is believed to be the title of his forthcoming album.
Utopia has been in the making for some time now. After initially being teased in 2020, the album was seemingly put on hold following the tragic events of Astroworld Festival in late 2021.
While there’s still a lot we don’t know about Travis’ fourth studio album, he has been dropping clues in various interviews for the past year about what his music might sound like. While we wait for it to arrive, here’s a breakdown of everything we know about Travis Scott’s Utopia so far.
Travis has been talking about 'Utopia' for the past two years
Travis has been dropping hints about Utopia since early 2020. On the second anniversary of his critically acclaimed album, Astroworld, Oct. 5, 2020, he tweeted, “Going to go cook up and build these walls for Utopia. See you guys soon.” A couple months before that, he slyly dropped the album title in an interview with GQ. When the interviewer asked Travis, “Where does one go after Astroworld?” He responded, “You go to utopia. That’s where we go.” The interviewer asked Travis what utopia looked like for him, and he replied, “[It’s] a place where we could just all sit across from each other and one side stops looking at the other side and where we all realize we’re equal. As just humans. We got buildings, flying cars. Like, everything’s just moving. And as people, we don’t want nothing from each other but just to see each other happy.”
The album will explore themes of a utopian state
In a 2021 interview with CR Men, Travis spoke more about his idea of “utopia” and said he’s been thinking about themes of “medicine, nursing, being a better person, talking, language, communication—you know, a utopian state. That’s what my album is about.” He continued, “You think utopia is a society where everything is good: health, buildings, architecture—nah. It’s just about proper lines of communication. Because that’s the dystopian shit we’re in right now. It’s all hate, hate, hate, and all of that is drawn from what? Miscommunication, non-communication, non-understandable communication, ignorance to communication. ‘I don’t like this person.’ Why? Because somebody told me something to not like this person? Because in history I read to not like this person? Why?’”