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From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes. I'm your host Cole Krishna Today we continue our serialized analysis of Because the Internet by Childish Gambino.

On our last episode, we dissected the narrative second scene in Act 1, World Star.

In the screenplay, the boy witnesses a real-life world star moment through his phone

when he records a fatal shooting outside of a nightclub. This is the story's

inciting incident, triggering the boy's existential crisis and his exploration of self and purpose. incident the boy will begin to examine the sleepwalking existence he's been living.

This process is slow and fittingly Act 2 begins with the instrumental track

Dial-up. I'm going to be. This interlude is an ode to the sounds and tones of dial-up internet.

For those of you too young to experience dial-up, it was a means of accessing the internet popular

in the 1990s that required you to connect through your phone line. Along with the tones of slowly getting connected to the internet, the sounds of windshield

wipers going back and forth repeat over and over, suggesting that the boy is trying to clear

his vision.

In the The boy and his crew walk into their mansion in slow motion.

They bring in with them alcohol and samorous fixings,

getting everything ready for the big party that night.

Marcus gets clean and grabs condoms.

A.J. grabs drugs and fam meditates and floats above his bed.

After this brief scene, we're instructed to play dial-up, which scores the boy laying in bed staring at his ceiling.

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