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Kid Cudi’s songs come to life in ‘Entergalactic’ TV feature

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. better way to tell the story
AP Entertainment Writer other than animation.”
LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Barris said they wanted to
Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi make New York into an
recorded the bulk of his animated character of
new album, the melodic its own.“We want you to
rapper wanted to visu- feel the trains going across
ally highlight the project’s screen,” he said. “We want
songs without depending you to feel almost getting
on short music videos. hit by a car in New York.
The Grammy winner initially We want you to feel the
thought about turning his anxiety of trying to make
concept album into an it when you feel like you
anthology series, until he should have made it al-
linked up with “black-ish” ready. Or when you feel
creator Kenya Barris, who like you’ve gotten over
suggested that Cudi go your ex, and when you find
the animation route. The someone else, she’s right
musician took heed and there. All that stuff we kind
has brought his songs into of go through, we wanted
colorful light in the Netflix to put that in there.”
adult-animated romantic Cudi paid homage to his
comedy “Entergalactic” late friend and designer
inspired by his eighth studio Kid Cudi appears at the Los Angeles premiere of “Sonic The Hedgehog 2,” on April 5, 2022. Cudi Virgil Abloh, who inspired
album of the same name. created and stars in the animated Netflix film “Entergalactic.” Associated Press the fashion in the animated
Both were released Friday. project. Cudi said Abloh’s
“When you bring music called. “You could see that For Cudi, it was a long pro- tergalactic” are similar to designs played a major role
and animation together, this could be something cess selecting the best “Spider-Man: Into the Spi- in telling the story.
those things sometimes last special. You could see that songs to tell the overall sto- der-Verse,” which won an “It was super, super impor-
forever,” said Barris, who Cudi and his music was ry. “We really had to sit and Oscar for best animated tant to have his presence
said he was immediately made for this.” fine tune what we wanted feature in 2019. in there because those are
“blown away” after hear- “Entergalactic” is a story as far as tone,” he said. “As “We were able to move his animations,” he said of
ing one song from Cudi focused on a young art- you can see in the show, and transform through Abloh, who died at 41 from
that focused on love. After ist name Jabari voiced a lot of the color palettes, Jabari’s mind, taking him cancer last year. Abloh
listening to the track, the by Cudi who moves into the purples, the browns, the into space when he’s rid- was the artistic director of
filmmaker reached out to his dream New York City fuchsias, the orange, these ing his bike,” Cudi said. Louis Vuitton menswear
some Netflix executives, apartment then bumps are the colors that you feel “Him and Meadow were in and founder of the popular
who were looking for ani- into his next-door neigh- and you see when you lis- their world, in their trance Off-White fashion house.
mation projects at the time, bor, Meadow, who left him ten to the music.” and flying around through Cudi’s “Entergalactic” al-
and brought them into the lovestruck. The television Cudi said going the anima- space. This was all impor- bum and the television
studio to listen to the song. special includes Timothée tion direction instead of tant to push the story, push special release on Friday,
“When you heard the song, Chalamet, Ty Dolla $ign, live action gave him more the narrative. You can which is Sept. 30, Abloh’s
you immediately knew it Vanessa Hudgens, Jaden freedom to “explore the watch this and be like ‘this birthday — a synchronicity
was so visceral and visual Smith, Teyana Taylor and abstract.” The visuals and could be live action.’ But I that was not planned, Cudi
at the same time,” Barris re- Macaulay Culkin. modern designs of “En- feel like there’s just no other said. q

Tennessee high court reverses Judd death investigation order

By TRAVIS LOLLER Releasing such details ruled that specific records age of 76. Her daughter self, and the family said she
Associated Press would inflict “significant in the police file are pub- Ashley has previously said was lost to “the disease of
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — trauma and irreparable lic records, including body that her mother killed her- mental illness.”q
Tennessee’s high court on harm” on the family, the camera footage taken in-
Thursday vacated a rul- petition said. It argued that side of Judd’s home. But
ing that required police to the police investigative files the Tennessee Supreme
publicly release their inves- are covered by an exemp- Court took issue with that
tigation of country singer tion to the state’s public re- part of the chancellor’s
Naomi Judd’s death. cords law. order. The high court said
The state Supreme Court Williamson County Chan- on Thursday that Woodruff
did not rule on whether the cellor Joseph A. Woodruff should not have ruled on
records can be released, ruled against the Judd fam- which specific records are
but sent the case back to ily on Aug. 31, denying their public and which are pri-
the lower court for another request for an injunction to vate without a full hearing
hearing. Judd’s family filed keep the records private on the issue.
a petition in Williamson while they pursue their le- The court vacated Wood-
County Chancery Court in gal case. The records “do ruff’s earlier ruling and sent
August, saying the police not appear to fall within the case back to the Chan-
records contain video and any recognized exception cery Court for a new hear-
audio interviews with rela- to the Public Records Act,” ing. Naomi Judd poses at the Hero Dog Awards at the Beverly Hilton
tives in the immediate af- Woodruff found. Judd died on April 30 at her Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., Oct. 6, 2012.
termath of Judd’s death. In addition, the chancellor home in Tennessee at the Associated Press