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S4E9 - “I Ain’t Got Time” by Tyler, the Creator

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.910.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Our season long analysis of Flower Boy continues with the song “I Ain’t Got Time.” The isolation expressed on the previous song “Boredom” is too much for Tyler to handle. He regresses and gets back into his sports car, using ego and testosterone to mask the loneliness he feels within.  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.

0:34.4

Long Form Musical Analysis broken into short digestible episodes.

0:38.4

I'm your host Cole Kushna. So, Today we track boredom. There we heard Tyler dealing with the loneliness and alienation

1:14.4

caused by a self-imposed isolation. At the conclusion of the song's second verse

1:19.0

Tyler hits an emotional low which is followed by a key plot point in the album's narrative. So now I'm scared that my southern fucking going.

1:33.0

I ain't knowing no I did when I'm going.

1:35.0

Tchch.

1:38.0

Yeah.

1:39.0

Gotta get out of here.

1:41.0

Tyler's boredom brings about feelings of estrangement from his friends, loneliness

1:46.1

from his lack of a love life and an underlying sense of aimlessness about his life

1:50.0

in general. We hear Tyler mutter to himself, I got to get out of here. Remember, narratively speaking,

1:56.4

Tyler is still alone inside the garden shed we heard him enter after he abandoned his

2:00.9

vehicle at the conclusion of Pothole.

2:03.4

Now here at the end of boredom, we hear Tyler get back into a sports car and once again hit the road. Time Time. Gtime. Gives over. Your eyes over we got some tickets to see right now we got some new music only here

2:26.1

on golf radio we've known since the album opener forward that Tyler uses

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