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This is the finale episode of our season-long examination of Tyler

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On our last episode, we dissected Igor's final track, Are We Still Friends?

It was there that Tyler communicated his fear of the guy being totally absent from his life

after the two broke it off romantically.

And so Tyler suggested being Friends, a request that sounded more like a plea by the song's end.

But like its title suggests, Are We Still Friends ultimately is left as a question.

We actually never find out if Tyler and the guy remained friends.

In this way, the album itself is left narratively unresolved,

a quality that is also reflected musically in the album's final moments,

where Igor's distorted synthesizer plays a single deflated note that does not resolve the song

harmonically. In our last episode we talked about how this unresolved ending of the album was a perfect match for Tyler's emotional state

capturing the mixed bittersweet emotions of separating

from someone he once loved and his honest human desire to salvage something from the relationship,

even if that just means friends or acquaintances. But at the very end of the episode we also

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