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This is episode 8 of our season-long examination of Tyler the Creator

I'm your host Cole Kushner. Oh, yeah. Last to Monday sec, we examined Igor's pivotal eighth track puppet.

Was there we heard Tyler come to the realization that he'd lost himself in his free will in his attempt to win his crush over.

This loss of self is then symbolized musically as a will in his attempt to win his crush over.

This loss of self is then symbolized musically

as midway through puppet Tyler disappears from the song.

We then heard a guest verse from Yea,

who in this critical moment plays the wise patriarch helping to resurrect Tyler and send him back on the correct path.

Yay's conclusive message to Tyler is to breathe on a song.

Read on a song comes to fruition in Igor's next track the subject of our episode today what's good But at some point you come to your senses.

What's good was produced by Tyler Oka and features guest vocals by Slow Thai. The song begins with a biting ascending riff that accents three pairs of minor second intervals.

An interval is the distance between two notes and a minor second interval is the closest two notes can be to each other.

Tyler uses three minor second intervals in the introductory riff for what's good, beginning with a G sharp and a,

jumping up to a C sharp and D, and jumping up again to a G sharp and A, now one octave higher.

The rift then scales back down using the same notes it climbed up with.

Now there's a few interesting things to consider about this opening riff, which will also be heard intermittently throughout the song.

First we notice the similarities between It and New Magic One, which also heavily featured the minor second interval

played on a distorted synth.

We also recall that New Magic Wand was preceded by the song Running Out of Time,

a heartfelt ballad that sharply contrasted with the aggression and violence of New Magic Wand.

When viewed as a pair, we observed how the two songs and their contrasting emotions

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