It's cool. I haven't gone back to it though.
I was listening to flower boy and Igor and call me a s*** ton.

Maybe this one didn't hit for me as much but I enjoyed it through two full listens.

Have yours?

Middle of the Ocean is fye i just dont think its one of the best on the album

Remember Gen Z “Kanye” as in from Gen Z still hasn’t happened yet surprisingly

It’s understandable I get why

Facts

Wayne either IMO

People fell in love with the results and aesthetics of what they did but not the fundamental mastery of skill and identity and wanting to bring something new to the table

Based on every post from OP in this thread, I promise you Tyler did not want you liking his album

I’m curious

What exactly makes this album any worse than his last efforts? This just feels like a more mature version & accumulation of the last three albums but with some slight differences

Honestly think it’s his best

came and went like his last 2

It was tough for me to get through on first listen ngl

cant levy bad listener at someone whilst liking tyler

Sahbabii available now

He never had ye goat potential stop this

I never liked Tyler and these forced ye comparisons are making me dislike him even more

I didn't return to it until today but it's actual heat if you're open to it. Vulnerable music

theyre eating you alive for this but you are correct. 90s Prince was not his prime and im saying this as a massive Prince fan with a ton of his 90s music being my favorite. that part about people overwhelmingly knowing MJ over Prince is facts too if you're outside of the US. gotta disagree with that drake comparison a bit

Yea that comparison just shows how dry and unoriginal the majority of hip hop is.
Ye set a standard that’s hard to measure up to and Tyler is the one of the few major artist that’s attempting conceptual projects and performance.

But agree with you tho, that knee jerk comparison niggas be doing has me side eyeing Tyler’s projects and the s*** usually mid so it’s hard not to sound like a hater

This is pretty much the problem with all forms of entertainment and the ones who are now taking over. Bunch of washed, jaded millennials and Gen x’ers and the generations looking up to these groups have greatly suffered, as we see now, yet we get blamed, when they influenced us and instead of continuing to lead, leaned into the lowest grades of the newest idiocracy they influenced

We didn’t need two MJs or even Prince trying too hard to be on that same scale

I ironically was actually thinking about this while taking a s*** one of the past few days lmao bc of something unrelated + Kendrick/Drake

I came to the conclusion that while Thriller (album and video) was more successful, Purple Rain probably emotionally connects/connected with people more

Michael made songs that were more widely accessible but Prince made an entire universe and subgenre that people delved into more

I think a good modern equivalent is ironically Wayne and Kanye somewhat or moreso in their primes lol. Wayne could make any song about anything a relative hit/notable/memorable record while Kanye was big on lore, story and worldbuilding, pushing the sound forward above all else.

I’m a full blown hater now

Seen too many mfers trying to call this mid the new ye

Tyler doesn’t have a single project that touches anything from tcd to tlop

Tbh tyler’s fans are doing him a disservice by doing this but they’re too dumb to see it

They're different lanes. I know I prefer Ye (if I had to choose) but I won't be surprised that there are Tyler diehards who don't connect with Ye music like that.

Interesting post (while taking a s***)

Mmmm is that fair tho

Darling I is one of the best in his discog