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From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short

digestible episodes. I'm your host Cole Kushner. Oh, Today we continue our serialized analysis of Flower Boy by Tyler the Creator.

On our last episode, we dissected See You Again, a love letter to Tyler's idealized

partner that he only sees in his dreams.

While romantic on its surface,

see you again is ultimately melancholic,

a manifestation of the loneliness Tyler feels in the waking world.

In terms of the alms overarching dichotomy of the superficial versus the meaningful, the material versus the natural,

CU again establishes love as something Tyler finds truly meaningful.

It's the first song on the album in which Tyler doesn't mention material possessions at all, nor does his ego ever rise to the surface.

Instead, Tyler likens his lover to a flower and himself to a bee in search of said flower.

This search, this attempt to find this person, will now help drive the narrative of

Flower Boy.

Fittingly, the album's next track continues this search, though not in a direction we might expect.

Indeed, the next song is a thematic U-turn from the sentiments of See You again.

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