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S10E9 - GONE GONE / THANK YOU by Tyler, The Creator

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.910K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Our season-long analysis of IGOR continues with GONE GONE / THANK YOU, a gorgeous double song in which Tyler memorializes the time shared with his beloved before finally becoming at peace with moving on. 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.

0:11.0

This is episode 9 of our season-long examination of Tyler the Creator's Igor.

0:14.8

I'm your host Cole Kushner. Oh, yeah. Last time on dissect we examined Igor's ninth track What's Good.

0:46.0

It was there we heard Tyler embody the Igor Alter Ego, fully indulging in bravado and swagger

0:51.0

in order to reclaim his autonomy in the aftermath of losing love.

0:54.8

We also observe how this resurrection of sorts was framed within the album's recurring breathing

0:59.0

motif with Yea on Puppet telling Tyler to quote, breathe on a song, which is followed directly by

1:04.3

Tyler literally breathing throughout the second half of what's good.

1:08.2

By the end of the song though, Tyler's rhythmic breaths of effort and assertion turn to panting as if he This change of breath clued us into the fact that while Igor served a purpose, allowing

1:30.7

him to regain his independence and break free from his crush.

1:33.6

It's an identity and attitude that's ultimately unsustainable.

1:36.8

Thus the tone of the album shifts as it progresses into its next track,

1:40.7

the subject of our episode today,

1:42.4

Gone, Thank you. next track. The subject of our episode today,

1:42.6

Gone, Thank you.

1:43.8

I don't know what's harder letting go or just being okay with it. Gonna Thank you, Thank You, is produced by Tyler Coma, and

1:54.0

comparing scars me for dinner.

1:57.0

Jump off the roof and turn the mirror.

1:59.0

Felt like summer.

2:00.0

Gone Thank You was produced by Tyler Coma and features guest vocals by Cilow Green,

2:05.7

La Rue, Jesse Wilson, Anthony Evans, Amanda Brown, and Tiffany Stevenson.

2:10.5

Like every 10th track on a Tyler project,

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