Frequency (song)

"Frequency"
Single by Kid Cudi
from the album Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'
Released September 30, 2016 (2016-09-30)
Format Digital download
Recorded 2016
Genre Hip hop
Length 4:58
Label
Writer(s)
Producer(s)
Kid Cudi singles chronology
"Father Stretch My Hands"
(2016)
"Frequency"
(2016)
"Surfin'"
(2016)

"Frequency" (previously titled "The Frequency")[1] is a song recorded by American rapper Kid Cudi. It was released on September 30, 2016, as the lead single from his upcoming sixth studio album, Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin' (2016). The song was written and produced by Mike Dean, Plain Pat and Kid Cudi.[1]

Release and composition

"Frequency" originally premiered on Cudi's SoundCloud account on March 25, 2016,[2] but was released for digital download as a single on September 30, 2016.[3] It is the lead single from his sixth studio album, Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin', which is set to be released on December 16, 2016.[4] "Frequency" runs for a duration of four minutes and fifty-eight seconds.[3] It was described as "a low-key hip-hop ballad" by Rolling Stone reviewer Elias Leight.[5]

Music video

The music video for the song, directed by Cudi himself, premiered on October 12, 2016, via his Vevo channel. The five-minute video features Cudi performing the song shirtless in a dark jungle.[6] It also shows him having a threesome in a mushroom cave.[6] Peter A. Berry of XXL wrote that the video is "simultaneously dark and colorful, much like the music Cudi’s provided for fans over the last eight years".[7] The Boombox's Jacinta Howard called the video "dark and artistic", while Rap-Up called it "dark and smoky".[8][9] Elisabeth Brier from Uproxx wrote; "It’s a sort of R-rated Wonderland. That’s perhaps the best way to describe the world depicted in Kid Cudi‘s new music video for "Frequency"."[10] Pigeons & Planes named it as one of the best music videos released in October 2016.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 "Kid Cudi Shares New Song "The Frequency" With Plain Pat, Mike Dean". Pitchfork. March 26, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  2. "Kid Cudi - The Frequency". HotNewHipHop. March 25, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Frequency - Single by Kid Cudi". iTunes. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  4. "Kid Cudi Announces New "Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'" Album Release Date". HipHopDX. December 1, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.
  5. "See Kid Cudi's Dark 'Frequency' Video". Rolling Stone. October 13, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  6. 1 2 "Kid Cudi "Frequency" (video)". Exclaim!. October 13, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  7. "Watch Kid Cudi's New Video for "Frequency"". XXL. October 13, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  8. "Kid Cudi Drops Dark, Artistic 'Frequency' Video [WATCH]". The Boombox. October 13, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  9. "Video: Kid Cudi – 'Frequency'". Rap-Up. October 13, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  10. "Kid Cudi's 'Frequency' Video Is An R-Rated Wonderland". Uproxx. October 13, 2016. Retrieved November 7, 2016.
  11. "Best Music Videos of the Month". Pigeons & Planes. October 31, 2016. Retrieved December 2, 2016.

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