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Dissect

S4E8 - “Boredom” by Tyler, the Creator

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Arts, Society & Culture

4.910.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Our season long analysis of Flower Boy continues with the song “Boredom.” Still in the isolation of his garden shed, Tyler’s boredom reveals an underlying loneliness and aimlessness that triggers his unhealthy defense mechanisms.  New episodes of Dissect release every Tuesday. Visit spotify.com/promo/Dissect for 60 free days of Spotify Premium. 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, long-form musical analysis broken into short

0:36.8

digestible episodes. I'm your host Cole Kushan. So, Today we

1:05.0

examine the album's centerpiece Garden Shedd.

1:09.0

There we heard Tyler abandoned his sports car,

1:12.0

his emotional protective shell, and address his attraction

1:15.3

to men within the safety and seclusion of his garden shed.

1:18.6

In terms of the album's narrative, we interpreted this as a powerful moment of personal acknowledgement and revelation,

1:24.1

but also one done in privacy. Having acknowledged this part of himself to himself,

1:29.1

Tyler will now work to express himself to the dream partner he's been searching for since the song

1:33.6

See You Again and as we'll hear this will be a process unto itself one that raises the

1:39.3

same insecurities and defense mechanisms we heard on the first half of Flower Boy.

1:44.0

Narratively speaking, Tyler at this point in the album is still in his hiding spot,

1:49.0

still in the isolation of his garden shed.

1:51.0

The effects of his ongoing seclusion will begin to reveal themselves as

1:54.8

Flower Boy continues into its next track. The subject of our episode today, boredom. Find some time to do something.

2:05.0

Find some time to use something.

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