UNIT 3 RESEARCH KENDRICK SWIMMING

POOLS
Louis Hollow

TYPES OF RESEARCH-QUANTITIVE:-

On YouTube Kendrick Lamar Swimming Pools has currently

been viewed 77,688,138 times. With over 404 thousand likes!
Published by Interscope on 3rd August 2012.
On Vevo the music video has reached 9.3 million views posted
same time.
This song features on his first album good kid, m.A.A.d city.

NOMINATIONS FOR SWIMMING

POOLS MUSIC VIDEO

MTV Video Music Award for Best Hip-Hop Video

2013Kendrick Lamar

MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video

2013Kendrick Lamar

World Music Award for Worlds Best Video

2014Kendrick Lamar

World Music Award for Worlds Best Song

2014Kendrick Lamar

Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance

2014Kendrick Lamar

BET Award for Viewer's Choice

2013Kendrick Lamar

GOOD KID, M.A.A.D CITY

On Wikipedia I found out that Good Kid, M.A.A.D City is the

second studio album by American rapper Kendrick Lamar. The
album was released on October 22, 2012, by Top Dawg
Entertainment, Aftermath Entertainment, and was distributed
by Interscope Records.
Released October 22, 2012 by his label Top Dawg ENT. TDE is
a label/group of Kendrick Lamar, Schoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab
soul, Isiah Rashad and SZA.

ALBUM SALES

The album debuted at number two on the USBillboard200chart,

with first-week sales of 242,000 copies. The album also entered
theUK Albums Chartat number 16 on October 28, 2012,as well
as entering at number two on theUK R&B Albums Chart. The
album also peaked in the top ten of the album sales charts
inCanada,New Zealandand theNetherlands.

In its second week it sold 63,000 more copies in the United

States.Then over the following four weeks it sold 176,000 more
copies bringing its total sales to 481,000 in the United States.

On August 21, 2013, the album was certifiedplatinumby

theRecording Industry Association of America(RIAA), having
shipped and sold one million copies in the United States.As of
October 29, 2014, the album had sold 1,324,000 copies,
according toNielsen SoundScan.

RESEARCH METHODS:-QUANTITIVE

Rolling Stone Magazine did a top 100 songs of 2012 and

Swimming Pools was placed 34th.

They gave a short review of the song which was :-

The breakout rapper of the year delivers a woozy meditation

on boozing that nails a drunk's inner conflict: The slow-motion
and hyperspeed verses mirror the arc of a bender, and there's
a liquid seductiveness in the groove, flow and chorus. In other
words, ironically or not, it's a fine drinking song.

SONG REVIEW ON PITCH FORK BY

MITCH MANZELLA

"Swimming Pools (Drank)," a single off his upcomingInterscopedebutgood

kid, m.A.A.d. city, tackles alcohol abuse in a similar fashion, but it also
shows a great deal of empathy in capturing the peculiar mental twist
contained within each individual sipper. In a rapid-fire introduction, Kendrick
explains, "Some people like the way it feel/ Some people wanna kill their
sorrows/ Some people wanna fit in with the popular like what's my
problem?" He understands the allure of those first couple shots: music
sounds better, the girls seem more friendly, and with the next drink (and
the next next drink) you get closer to "the feeling of freedom when vodka
arrives." Figuring out why we get fucked up rather than overtly endorsing it
is a pretty bold way to introduce a record that Interscope andDr. Dreare
betting the house on, but hell, the hook is so damn catchy, you can imagine
college kids using it for a drinking game anyway.