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

episodes. I'm your host Cole Kishna. Oh, Today we

continue our serialized analysis of Flower Boy by Tyler the Creator.

On our last episode, we dissected the album's fifth track,

Houdat Boy, a song that we realize works on a multitude of levels.

On one hand, as implied by the song's title and opening lines,

Tyler is continuing his search for the dream lover he fantasized about in the previous track

See You Again. On the other hand, Houdat boy finds Tyler at his most egotistical,

bragging about his fashion, cars, and wealth alongside guests Aesap Rocky.

When viewing see you again and Hudat Boy as a contrasting but intricately linked pair of songs,

we understand how they represent in large form the dichotomy between the material and the natural,

the superficial versus the meaningful.

See you again is all meaning, all natural,

while Houdat boy is all superficial, all material, all sports car.

Tyler is already established on forward that his materialistic intuitions are feeling a

void.

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