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As recently as Cherry Bomb, he was still puffing his chest out and making it seem like there were depths of uncertainty hiding under his cartoonish confidence, but here, he finally examine that self-doubt. There's been an uneasy undercurrent of awkward romance running through Tyler's music ever since Goblin's 'She,' where stalkerish lyrics clearly stood in for a 20 year old's true feelings, but Flower Boy's the first time where Tyler feels capable of an adult relationship, even if he haven't has as many as his friends with frequent Tenderonis. I'll leave deep explorations of Tyler's frequent use of gay slurs and possible gay identity to those more qualified than yours truly, but for me, his willingness to open up about any romantic encounter, regardless of who it's with, is a nice change of pace, offering us a chance to see him as a real human being, not just a human Mountain Dew can. There's more heart there than in their previous films, to be sure, but they're also just as funny, and perhaps just as offensive (the political correctness of the former and the sexism of the latter have both been called into question for valid reasons). Compare it to the Farrelly Brothers or Judd Apatow first attempting romantic comedies and winding up with There's Something About MaryВ and Knocked Up, respectively.

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For that reason, there's no way you could consider Flower BoyВ a full 'maturation'- Tyler's still very much operating under the same outrage-baiting guiding principle that informed his early work- but shedding a jagged rock influence and no longer seeming like he's being provocative for provocativeness' sake alone, Tyler's perhapsВ attempting a different genre. It contains, as headlines have proclaimed in the past couple of weeks, discussions of Tyler's maybe-not-entirely-straight sexual orientation, but it also contains a 'pause' joke and a few instancesВ of Tyler using one of his favorite insults, which also happens to be a homophobic slur.

#Tyler the creator flower boy concert serial#

For ICP, that meant getting more positive, leaving behind songs like 'Fuck The World' and 'Still Stabbin' in favor of party cutsВ about taking 'time off from serial slaughtering.' For Tyler, an artist who- let's keep it a buck- has always been far, far more inventive than ICP, that means finally severing ties with his horrorcore-themed (although he was never okayВ with that label) Wolf Haley persona and making an album that's very different from its predecessors in a number of ways.ДЇlower BoyВ is the least abrasive, most introspective, least sonically busy, most mellow, and least menacing Tyler, The Creator album to date.

Both artists began their careers as iconoclastic contrarians, rappers who, despite appealing to different audiences, seemed wholly focused on distancing themselves from the mainstream, whether via aggressive concerts, abrasive song concepts, or horrorcore.Д«ut nobody can play the role of the youthful disrupter for their entire lives. Although its wide-eyedВ wonder for the natural world is limited to a shout-out to 'flowers, rainbows, and posies' in the opening track, it does end up occupying a similar place in Tyler's trajectory as Bang! Pow! Boom!,В the album that housed 'Miracles,' did in ICP's discography.

Scum Fuck Flower BoyВ is Tyler's fourth album, arriving some six years after Goblin, his commercial debut that arrived four days prior to that concert I attended.