Both characters are still engaging precisely because they emanate from a core of real pain—the moment at which you can observe and condemn so-called "bad behavior" while still finding it wholly understandable. Like a rap game Tony Soprano, Tyler spends a lot of time awkwardly talking to his therapist, working through another identity—"Wolf," who does a lot of terrible things that Tyler sometimes feels bad about, and sometimes has reasons for doing, mostly related to his absent father.
But here, Earl finds himself exposed, then hesitant, embarrassed: "Not, like, a family of four, just like Somehow, both of these songs are simultaneously repulsive and to an extent sympathetic. Tyler wants to be a man , but certainly not the same kind of man as his father and all he represents, while Earl reacts violently to admitting that he wants a normal family.
Try imagining the Earl of "epaR" fantasizing of a picket-fence future. In contrasting Odd Future with their hero Eminem , Bethlehem Shoals writes : "The Odd Future bunch never mistake acting nuts for actually being nuts, and what makes their music so easy to excuse, and enjoy, is the sense of living, breathing kids underneath all the ugliness. This gap—between acting and being nuts—is, in some sense, suspect after all, we are what we do , but it allows for an understanding of the mindset the produces this music—most importantly, they are or were living, breathing kids.
Forming an identity by "acting out"—something that is, by definition, reactive—is deeply related to actually being able to engage with and understand people in the long term. Growing up happens and our identities calcify, whether we want them to or not. Send your thoughts and reactions to Letters to the Editor.
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Oct 22, A jazzy synth supports vocals in fore and background—some blown out, some silky smooth. Beauty blooms among artists who are willing to take up the microphone, the brush, and the pen not to preach, preen, or profit—but to serve. The psalmists of the Bible write intensely personal poetry, but it is always art as service: Songs written to put into words the complexity of emotions, fears, and prayers most of us cannot express. When an artist hits the studio not as an exercise in narcissism or capitalist opportunism but to truly serve others, they give us a glimpse of what it looks like to be fruitful and multiply.
Tyler, the Creator has manufactured a persona—Igor—as a gift to us. A servant to whom—or what? Speaking as a Catholic, I believe artists must be servants of God and his work of redemption in the world… I also believe an artist is a servant to art.
It sounds pretentious, even absurd, to write such a line… I mean the strange phenomenon in which the Creator yields to the Created. His recent Grammy performance was mesmerizing for this very reason: We witnessed not Tyler, the Creator, but Igor, the creation, in all his fiery intensity. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
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