S10E6 - A BOY IS A GUN* by Tyler, The Creator

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.9 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Our season-long analysis of IGOR continues with A BOY IS A GUN*. In the most sample heavy song on the album, Tyler uses a dichotomous gun symbol to express how his crush makes him feel: safe and in danger all at once. 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 episodes.
0:11.1	This is episode 6 of our season-long examination of Todd of the
0:14.2	Creator's Igor. I'm your host Cole Cushner. Oh, yeah. Last time I dissect we examined Igor's sixth track New Magic Wand.
0:46.0	It was there we heard Tyler turn dark as he imagined murdering his
0:49.4	girlfriend as the easy magical solution to their problems.
0:53.0	The so-called new magic wand, his gun, was symbolic of Tyler's desperate attempt to wield power when feeling powerless.
1:00.0	Tyler will develop this symbol further as Igor continues into its next track.
1:03.8	The subject of our episode today, A Boy is a Gun. Don't shoot me, girl.
1:13.0	Don't shoot me down.
1:15.0	You so motherfucking dangerous.
1:18.0	You so motherfucking dangerous.
1:20.0	You got me by my neck.
1:22.0	A boy is a gun was written by Tyler Coma with background vocals by Salange.
1:26.8	Of all the songs on Igor, this track relies most heavily on samples, all of which are chopped
1:31.2	from the 1961 song Bound by Ponderosa Twins plus one. It's likely you recognize this song from its prominent use and Kaniy West bound to from his album Yezes.
1:50.0	A thousand pictures. One good girl is worth 1,000 bitches.
1:55.0	BAM!
1:58.4	Tyler actually has a relationship with Conney's Bound 2,
2:01.1	as he helped produce an early unused version of the track.
2:04.0	Known now as Bound One, this version leaked on the internet
2:07.6	after which Tyler tweeted,
2:09.4	Wow, original Bound with My drums and bridge and chords and shit.
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