S4E2 - Foreword by Tyler, The Creator

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Arts, Music, Society & Culture

4.9 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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We begin our season long analysis of Flower Boy by Tyler the Creator with the album’s opening track “Foreword.” We find Tyler laying out the themes that will be explored throughout Flower Boy as he questions his success, his chronic loneliness, and the nature of life itself. New episodes of Dissect release every Tuesday. For 60 free days of Spotify Premium, visit spotify.com/promo/dissect. Follow @dissectpodcast on Twitter and Instagram. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.8	Long Form Musical Analysis broken into short digestible episodes.
0:37.8	I'm your host Cole Kushna. So, Today we begin our serialized analysis of Flower Boy by Tyler the Creator.
1:04.3	On our last episode, we detailed Tyler's ascension from teenage internet kid
1:09.0	to international artist and ringleader of the Creative Collective Odd Future.
1:13.0	Four years and four albums later, we found Tyler in the year 2015, thinking that his career was in jeopardy.
1:20.0	Odd Future had unofficially disbanded.
1:22.0	He'd been banned from three countries, and his most recent album Cherry Bomb had been met with mixed reviews.
1:28.0	In Tyler's mind, his next album needed to be good, really good.
1:32.8	I just knew if this album wasn't good, I will be fucked.
1:37.6	That's how I felt and some people would disagree, but I'm like,
1:40.5	man, I'm not, I'm nothing right now.
1:42.6	You felt that way coming off Cherryball?
1:44.2	Yeah, yeah, yeah, because everyone hated it.
1:46.4	Tyler would use 2016 to create what would become the album,
1:49.4	Flower Boy, released July 17th, 2017.
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