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“Your girlfriend look like my mom” - Tyler

A boy is a gun* has an asterisk as it’s a correction of a popular phrase “a girl is a gun”

Also: the ending note of ARE WE STILL FRIENDS? perfectly goes in to the opening note of IGORS THEME, what makes the album a perfect loop. A loop where Tyler wants to be friends with this person after he falls in love, but because he wants to be friends, he falls in love again and the whole thing loops

He should just adapt this whole album into a two season HBO Show. Each episode; a song title, and tells its story with the overarching plot being Tyler's/Igor's journey. He can do it. He should do it.

The last song is a regression. He still loves him. That’s why the album is a loop

Grammys: "Yeah this is definitely rap"

They could potentially make IGOR into a really cool movie. It has the storyline, so I don’t see why not🤷‍♂️

And to add to the story; Igor is a Russian name with meaning - Warrior. Tyler goes through heartbreak, toxic relationship, jealously, but he comes back with a Warrior side. He comes back with Igor, his stronger, more mature side.

Imagine he didn’t intend these things at all

This video honestly made me appreciate IGOR a lot more then I already did.

I also love how the album is a musical loop, signifying, ‘exactly what you run from is what you end up chasing' meaning no matter how many times you fall out of love, you’ll end up right where you started like a cycle.

Idk if anyone has also picked up on this. But on my first listen through, when I was listening to “Are we still Friends”, when there’s that “I’ve got to... KNOOOWWW” and the voice gets deeper, I took it as the boy saying “NOOOO”. Thus, rejecting Tyler and the rest of the song is just him begging and pleading. The scream at the end is him realizing that this relationship is finally over, just like that. Idk, it might just be me tho

the moment you hear the “sometimes you gotta close a door to open a window” you know SHIT IS ABOUT TO GET REAL!

when i saw him in concert he even changed the lyrics in new magic wand to “i’ll kill you both”

Such a well made video

Listened to it earlier tonight, no pauses, in the dark, with headphones and it was absolutely an incredible experience, it is my first tyler album too, and it made a damn good first impression on me

tyler relly said ‘i wish i were heather’ but in a much more violent way in new magic wand

Lets analyze that editing in this video god damn its good

every time i hear “i don’t want to end this season on a bad episode” i triggered my tear ducts, but i never really understood why. this album, even though i didn’t understand it, has meant so much to me and it’s helped me get through a lot of things. now that i get the story, i can enjoy it more and appreciate it more. thank you for opening my eyes

This album is so relatable. I started crying listening to this, realizing I've gone through the same shit. This album is so good. 10/10 my dude

Bro your visuals are what makes you the best music video essay channel on the internet

Omg I never understood the story behind “New Magic Wand” and I never made the connection that the New Magic Wand was symbolism for a gun. Damn.

I used this album while i had a crush on someone who had no interested in me. I was obsessed with the person which was never right of me and i feel like a fool. This album helped me through the whole crush thing. I apologised and me and the person went on separate ways. Still have a bit of feeling towards them but im not obsessive anymore. ("WHAT'S GOOD" is my favorite track of the album.)

“take your mask off “ that’s different now

THE MAGIC WAND COULD BE THE PHOTOSHOP TOOL ''GET HER OUT THE PICTURE'' LIKE SELECT HER USING A MAGIC WAND THEN EDIT HER OUT

"the irony is I don't wanna *see you again*" Flower boy ; )

This is Cherry Bomb erasure! He needed that album to define his sound. It gave him the ability to experiment with new instruments and lyrics, ultimately finding his wings afterwards. He would not have this refined sound of loud and grimy instruments with polished vocals if he never made cherry bomb. I wish more people would recognize the impact that album had on Tyler's whole career

don’t forget my literal favorite part of the album: on are we still friends it ends on the same note/key as igor theme implying if he is “still friends” he will inevitably fall back in love with the boy again and go through the whole loop all over again. it’s truly such an amazing album

The asterisk on A Boy is a Gun* signifies that he’s correcting the phrase “A Girl is a Gun,” it’s not just for emphasis

Almost everyone was able to relate to this album, but didn’t want to say it

Fun fact: at the end of the album you can hear IGOR's theme, implying that this story of falling in love and then realizing that it's breaking you is set to repeat.

“Oh no I hope I don’t fall” -Tyler the Creator

I love how much he’s grown with his music. So many different ideas and phases in his discography now he’s finally starting to get the recognition he deserves.

I feel that IGOR is my favorite album of all time. Tyler clearly used this to vent his problems with his ex boyfriend, but kept it vague enough for people of differing sexual orientations like myself to also use this album as a shoulder to cry on for emotional breakups. Hidden meaning and lyrics aside, the album has unique and incredible production, allowing a person to have a very casual listen. Tyler you hit the nail right on the head 10/10

This album is actually the best composed story he has created. This is my favorite Tyler album because it’s truly just a beautiful, tragic, and healing story about complex and chaotic feelings of a shifty relationship. He truly delivered everything on this one.

One of the reasons Igor stood out to me as a romance album is because the songs aren't stuck in a loophole, and there is actual progression and closure on the album.

The beat in, “A Boy is a Gun*” is amazing

This video is fucking lit. You can see the effort and love put into this video just like the passion and heartbreak In the album. Bravo man. Bravo

New Magic Wand has such a sinister beat, adding on to that motive to “get her out the picture”. It’s just beautiful

BOYFRIEND is one of the best bonus songs to an album I’ve ever heard.

Oh so BEST INTEREST was him accepting himself as a third wheel?

one of the best if not the best album of 2019

This album literally helped me go through a break up and shit from this girl I really love. Even though the album was about a homosexual, it still spoke about what I was going through in a heterosexual frame.

i am a gay guy and ive had a very similar experience to tyler recently. Recently ive learned i was gay about 2 years ago and developed a crush for this guy at my school. i tried to become his friend at first and my friend helped me out then the school year ended and i still had that crush and watched him from afar since he had a girlfriend and she didnt really like me, she even asked for my friend for my last name and idk what it was for, maybe she would have looked for my socials? I have no idea but i was starting to realize..i would never have him, both because he had a girlfriend but also because he is homophobic. I questioned ksm for a very long time since more and more people realized i was gay and started bullying me. Im guessing, he found out because he would weirdly look at me in the halls and in the lunchroom. i would obsess over him and i would watch him and go any way he was in the halls so i could yk be closer to him. I wanted to befriend him again but then we left school again. during this summer i started to accept he will never love me. I was so relieved i got rid of my crush for him and my friends were happy for me. although i never wanted to get rid of his girlfriend i feel like i had a very similar experience. Im glad i got rid of that crush for that guy because i was literally going insane but now it feels like i have dropped a huge weight from my back but i have one more year with him upcoming.

“Hated the popular ones now I’m Ones” -Tyler The Creator

I love igor so much it’s becoming one of my favorite albums ever

Grammys: *looks at tyler's skin color* "Seems like rap"

The album's ending also perfectly loops to the beginning, showing that this is a never-ending cycle if he chooses to stay friends.

Being a gay kid growing up in the 90s I thought I never see the day that a big name artist make a hip hop album about being in love with a guy. Just thinking about it makes me want to cry... Thank you Tyler

that ad sponser was smooth as hell i can't even be mad 😭

Never noticed how "New Magic Wand" is so creepy lmao thats my favorite one of the album

First time I listened to Igor,, I was in a vulnerable place and it helped me beyond words can describe. Funny not funny how something can catch you at that precise point in time and cradle you through. Thank You Tyler

Magic wand could also refer to the photoshop tool and he literally wants to take her out of the picture

The fact that he wrote the music and text himself and then PRODUCING it all himself just shows what a mastermind and genius Tyler really is. Let's all just let that sink in and appreciate it.

“Thank you” is also sampled from the song fragile by yamashita tatsuro, which i think is particularly insightful to his changing feeling towards his love interest. The original song is a love song saying “thank you for you love, thank you for the joy, i dont ever wanna be alone again” but Tyler switched up the lyrics to show the sting of a love that he lost.

Imagine if someone took the story behind Igor and made it a movie

WHOOAAA can’t believe I just realized “call me by your name cause I’m sorry” was from Timothée Chalamet’s call me by your name wooooow, and timmys a fan, they follow each other on insta

I love the "you gotta close the door to open a window" cause it's a metaphor for leaving an opportunity to vent

There's one important thing you missed where in the last song. The tune at the end changes to the tune at the beginning of Igor's theme, which causes the album to be played in a loop and having the relationship start all over again.

Is no one going to talk about the fact that Tyler the creator is the David Bowie of rap?

I've never broken up with someone but this still makes me feel like 😔

I often come back to this album because there’s so much to appreciate and pick apart. Another clever detail i noticed is that the main percussion in “Thank You” is comprised of what sounds like gun cocking and reloading, because a boy is a gun. And the dangerous thing about that isn’t only the pain, but the fact that he never wants to fall in love again.

Its been a year since i first watched this video, and this was what made me listen to igor for the first time and get into tyler. since then ive found countless new amazing artists and it can all be traced back to this so thank youuu Changed my life and all that stuff

when this album came out i was having difficulties with my ex girlfriend. i listened to this album in it’s entirety and ultimately made my decision that it’s better that we go separately. i thanked her for everything she’s done for me and everything that we’ve been through. i haven’t put myself out there since then. but we continue to be friends.

Cherry Bomb aint happened i guess lol

i just went and listened to igor for the first time after watching this. ive been listening to these songs since 2019 but the story when its put altogether makes it 10x better

10:49 literally blew my mind for some reason

if this doesn’t win album of the year i’m kms edit: yes it won.. but rap album? really? deserved album of the year

Love how he skipped Cherry Bomb when explaining Tyler’s discography

10:54 i always get chills for sum reason

This video made me love IGOR. It's now my favorite album of all time and helped me through a few times in my life. It really solidifies Tylers genius.

The genius of IGOR is that it’s so good the Grammys thought it was a Rap Album.

Bruh I legit rethought this entire album cause of this vid wtf

this album helped me through so many heart breaks, i honestly appreciate tyler for this. he changed my life and gave me a new mindset and i havent been happier. sometimes it isnt about the music but the impact it has on someone.

4:47 for some reason "killing his love interests girlfriend" is just so cold

Bro I love how Tyler is super different from other artist and is very experimental. I loved like every song in this album

The transitions on this album are gorgeous. It plays like one song

This channel helped me really understand how much of a genius is Tyler. I fall in love with the production behind this project but his writing is amazing and unique

the synth on igor’s theme was truly amazing.

The second part of gone gone/thank you is so beautiful and heartbreaking that shit almost made me tear up

Musicians: this album is just some songs that i wrote and they seem to work together genre wise Tyler: yeah i wrote a novel then sang it edit: bc this randomly get comments sometimes i just wanna clarify that i was testifying to how cool Tyler is for being in the limelight/mainstream and creating something like this. Lots of younger ppl love his stuff and i find it personally very important that kids/teen/young adults should know the artistry that music REALLY is and can be. I was raised on rock mostly but have always been into literally every genre of music, and yes! A lot of artists have "sung novels" for an album :D it was just the fact that Tyler is extremely popular and exposing the younger audience to it made me very happy, i promise im not stupid or without a music background LMFAO anyway, happy 2023 guys, hope you find new music that loves you as much as you love it 💕

5:00 this song dude is just, *perfect* this album would make an amazing movie

This album has always been one of my all time favorites because of the songs itself and the story, Tyler is just an overall extremely talented artist and I honestly can't wait for a new album from him

i feel like you missed on the "No need for masks, bust through the door" line. i see it more as a continuation to him plotting to murder the boy and his love interest. he follows the line with "get the job done like retirement, i admit you look concerned." he wouldn't need a mask because he's plotting to murder BOTH of them because the boy chose the girl over tyler. that's just how i see it though, and in my opinion it makes sense lyrically.

Am actually so happy he did a video on igor love you middle 8

I love this whole album, it's one of my favorites..

i’ve only listened to several songs from tyler and i love them and this just opened up a whole new view like i didn’t know his albums were like this and i love how they just explained everything

WHY NO ONE TALKS ABOUT A SONG “BOYFRIEND” THAT CAME OUT LATER AS A PART OF AN ALBUM????

Honestly got me over my crush,it has helped me mentally so many times

4:50 Wtf man, I was about to go crazy at the drop

igor was already my favourite album, but this just brings it to another level

In the CD and vinyl releases of IGOR, there's another song. It's called Boyfriend, and it precedes Exactly What You Run From. It's a bop and I think it perfectly complements your theory, you should give it a listen!

Who's here after Tyler won a Grammy?

I've watched this video so much before but I just seem to always come back to it. It's honestly one of the most engaging videos on this platform with top tier analysis.

The editing for this video is genuinely beautiful.

“Tyler bloomed as Flower Boy” 👀 i see you Middle8

"I don't know what's harder, letting go or just being okay with it." That hit different :(

IGOR album will always have a special place in my heart

Let's not forget the loop for are we still friends and igor's theme basically saying he falls in love with the boy again