S10E11 - ARE WE STILL FRIENDS? by Tyler, The Creator

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.9 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Our season-long analysis of IGOR continues with ARE WE STILL FRIENDS?, the album's final track in which Tyler expresses his desire to remain friends his with former crush, and in the process, puts himself at risk of becoming entrapped in a endless loop of falling in and out of love. IGOR then ends with an ominous final note that contains a number of thematic and narrative implications. Shop Season 10 merchandise here. Follow us on TikTok, Instagram, and Twitter. Host, EP, Writer: Cole Cuchna Writer: Camden Ostrander Audio Editor: Kevin Pooler Theme Music: Birocratic Recreations: Andrew Atwood Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Spotify, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible
0:10.0	episodes.
0:11.0	This is episode 11 of our season-long examination of Tyler the Creator's sequel.
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1:09.6	Last time I dissect, we examined Igor's penultimate track,
1:12.2	I don't love you anymore it was there
1:13.8	Tyler repeated the mantra I don't love you anymore in a moment of finality the formal
1:17.9	farewell to his love after finding peace with things ending on gone gone
1:21.2	thank you in this way I don't love you anymore felt like a
1:24.0	natural conclusion to the Albs narrative with Tyler saying goodbye letting this
1:28.1	door close in order to open the window of new opportunities ahead. However as as we noted last episode, Tyler also expresses confusion and
1:35.7	aimlessness on the song, calling to mind the vulnerable emotional state in the immediate aftermath of
1:40.4	breaking up, where often our head and heart struggle to align.
1:44.3	In Tyler's case, his head knows he needs to move on, but his heart is battling the reality of
1:48.5	the sky being completely absent from his life.
1:51.3	Thus Tyler entertains a compromise of sorts on Igor's next and final track, the subject
1:55.8	of our episode today, Are We Still Friends was produced by Tyler Okoma and features a guest verse by Farel Williams.
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