The "obstacle" is the girlfriend Tyler's guy won't kick to the curb. Tyler is both fearful of and longing for his unnamed love interest. I hate wasted potential, that shit crushes your spirit. (track 10)Įach quote provides context for the songs that follow. I don't know what's harder, letting go or just being okay with it. But at some point, you come to your senses. Sometimes you gotta close a door to open a window. Exactly what you run from, you end up chasing. On IGOR, Tyler uses quotes from Jerrod Carmichael, comedian and long-time collaborator, as in-roads similar to Kendrick's poem. Show-heavy works, like To Pimp a Butterfly, will often include specific moments of telling that help audiences understand what's happened and why. So at the end of Track 5, the chunk of poem finishes with "Found myself screaming in a hotel room." The very next song ("u") just so happens to have Kendrick screaming in a hotel room. The surprise is that the poem (which you don't hear in-full until the final track) is a summary of To Pimp A Butterfly's narrative. Track 5 increases the total to six lines.
Over the course of TPAB, Kendrick reads out, at the end of certain songs, increasing amounts of a 24-line poem. Both have strengths and weaknesses.Īn excellent example of balance comes from Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly. If it's all telling, you run the risk of sounding like a children's book. If it's all showing, you end up with deep-but-obtuse results that polarize audiences, like 2001: a Space Odyssey or The Sound and the Fury. And they actually pay him for the chance.Īs with most things, a balance of showing and telling allows a work to have nuance but still be accessible. Mark Twain could have simply said, "Tom Sawyer was a very bright kid, able to convince other kids to do anything, whether it was good for them or not." Instead, Mark Twain showed us by creating a whole scene where Tom Sawyer has to paint a fence as punishment but manipulates the other neighborhood kids to do the chore for him. Part 2 is about awareness/seeing things for what they are/moving on.Ī major consideration for writers is how much they show versus how much they tell. Part 1 is an emotional journey that you feel. The prominence and dominance of those two phrases (and their fragmentations) on "Igor's Theme" serves, then, as a microcosm of the album as a whole. Contextually, this follows the previous track's decisive twist: Tyler has come to his senses, realizes the relationship is bad for him, and so decides he must move on. The second phrase doesn't appear until the final line of the last verse of track 9, "What's Good." Tyler raps, And I got my eyes open, now I see the light. Instead of declaring someone will feel something, Tyler describes what he feels: a love is shaking him up, making his heart break. But the second part of the original idea, t hey gon' feel this one, is riffed upon. Ridin' round town is used nearly verbatim. The first is immediately relevant, as the following song, "Earfquake," has a chorus of: Cause you make my earth quake, oh, you make my earth quake/ riding around, your love is shakin' me up and it's making my heart break. Ridin' round town, they gon' feel this one Rather than a song that's describing a specific emotion or event, it's a painter showing you the palette with all the smears of colors that'll be part of the painting.ĭespite the overall chaos of "Igor's Theme," two main phrases emerge: This helps explain why the lyrics here are fragmented and repetitious in a way that doesn't happen elsewhere. The implication, then, of "Igor's Theme" is this serves as an establishment of musical and lyrical concepts that the rest of IGOR will alter, add to, and riff on. Here's a description by Jeremy Denk, a famous pianist, in an interview with Classic FM: "It's an idea with a number of riffs on the idea -in all kinds of styles and moods.You take the theme, you take the original idea and you begin to alter it or add things to it." For example, a theme in Disney's Aladdin is "how wealthy you are doesn't define how good of a person you are." A theme in Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is the excess of celebrity: that celebrity involves too much power, monstrous indulgence, and appalling materialism.īut theme has a more nuanced application when it comes to music theory, usually in combination with the concept of variations. Themes are broader concepts created by repeated (and often contrasting) elements.
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Most of us are familiar with themes in narrative art-in movies, TV shows, books, albums. Exactly What You Run From You End Up ChasingĮxactly What You Run From You End Up Chasing.
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