Hating on the industry before it was trending to do so. This is art in its purest form.
This is the album that bridges towards what we know Tyler for today, "finding his wings". While the highs on this are amazing, top contenders for his best songs, (SMUCKERS and 2SEATER specifically), I cannot get other the messiness and unlistenable nature of the lows on the album. RUN and KEEP DA O'S are tyler's production at his weirdest - and not in a good way. The vocal tuning he does on his voice (and pharell's) in KDO is pretty awful and im glad he fixed it up on ... read more
While one of the highest rated albums of 2024, this is still an underappreciated masterpiece, telling a story about a misogynistic, but also caring, women-obsessed man so jailed in his imperfections that he embraces them proudly, while also desperate for people to listen. I'm glad I did.