The Making of Travis Scott’s Utopia

NFR Podcast

Music, Music Commentary

4.9 • 716 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we're discussing the unknown stories and creative process behind Travis Scott’s Utopia. This episode will give strong insight on how this album was made.

List of Songs Discussed

•My Eyes

•Meltdown

•Modern Jam

•Hyaena

•& More

Transcript

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0:00.0	What is going on, guys. Welcome back to NFR podcast and we have a brand new series for you guys,
0:05.5	something that we wanted to try out and see if you guys enjoy. And this is going to be the
0:10.0	making of series. And for today's episode, we're going to be going through Travis Scott's
0:15.3	already iconic 2023 album Utopia. So let us know in the Q&A, which album should we cover next if you guys
0:22.8	do enjoy this series. And if you do enjoy the episode, make sure to share this with a friend.
0:27.4	So to give you guys a breakdown of how this is going to work, we're going to bring you guys
0:31.5	into the creative process behind Utopia. And the idea for this was to really bring you guys
0:37.0	facts and information and stories
0:39.7	about the album that really haven't been covered by the mainstream media. And just give you guys
0:45.3	an idea of the influences, the collaborators, the vision that Travis had to make one of his
0:50.3	most ambitious projects from studio sessions to the story of how Utopia was conceived and constructed.
0:57.0	And big shout out to geek about it and the most unruly on YouTube,
1:01.3	as well as GQ magazine for helping us gather all the information that we have for this episode.
1:06.7	But, I think it's a good place to start with how he really got the idea for this album to begin with.
1:12.8	And that takes us back to November of 2023.
1:16.3	So this was interesting because we actually did cover this before.
1:19.5	We did cover it.
1:20.5	So going back to the original title track hyena, this one was interesting because this is actually something I didn't know.
1:26.3	Apparently it was supposed to be called Cats and Tigers and he revealed that within the HQ, you know, the GQ interview, excuse me,
1:32.8	that dropped back in November of 2023. And it was interesting because it felt like Travis was talking
1:38.2	about having a battery in his back around this time as well. And especially with the influence of
1:43.3	Stormy, which is his daughter he's talked about
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