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Dissect

S4E12 - Glitter by Tyler, The Creator

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.910.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Our season long analysis of Flower Boy continues with the song “Glitter”. It’s that Tyler’s album long journey culminates with him expressing how he feels to the love interest he’s been chasing throughout Flower Boy. But as we’ll discover, this beautiful moment comes with a twist ending. Purchase limited Season 4 merchandise at shop.dissectpodcast.com. New episodes of Dissect release every Tuesday. Follow @dissectpodcast on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect.

0:34.0

Long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

0:38.0

I'm your host, Cole Kushner. Oh, Today we

1:05.0

dissected the album's 12th track November.

1:06.0

On our last episode, we dissected the album's 12th track November.

1:10.0

There we heard Tyler hit an emotional rock bottom as his anxiety and loneliness reached a tipping point

1:16.3

Broken about his past uncertain about his future

1:19.5

Tyler wished to return to November to the, the exact opposite of forward progress and emotional advancement.

1:26.8

At the end of November's first verse, we heard a critical plot in Fire Boy's narrative,

1:31.5

which you'll remember is set in a car ride at Sunset. What if I thought the brake was the gas? What if I crashed? What if these

1:44.1

deep thoughts was my last? Let me pull over quickly.

1:46.1

Tyler's anxiety-ridden introspection has him distracted while driving. We hear

1:51.2

a honking horn, which implies that Tyler almost hit another vehicle.

1:55.5

He then pulls over the car to gather himself.

1:58.3

On November's second verse, Tyler, still on the side of the road and perhaps shook by his near-death experience, gathers the courage

2:05.2

to call the love interest he's talked about throughout the album.

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