#quickie review

Chromakopia

Stand-Out Tracks

Rah Tah Tah

Hey Jane

I Killed You

Sticky

Take Your Mask Off

I Hope You Find Your Way Home

A couple of months ago, I was explaining to my boyfriend that I am not a fan of Tyler the Creator. We were in the car, he was driving and I had probably taken over the music. Dogtooth was in our current rotation and it was probably what sprung the topic. “I like some of the Tyler songs, but I wouldn't call myself a fan”. We had listened to Call Me If You Get Lost and it's deluxe The Estate Sale, together from top to bottom. I could never find myself relating to a full Tyler Body of work. I beat the brakes off Earfquake and Who Dat Boy, but Tyler has never been one of my go-to's.

This album, however, is for the late twenty or early thirty-somethings. With themes of home-building being a constant lyrical motif. Whether he's talking about locking the doors and protecting his coveted assets or ruminating if he's ready to have children. This provides the perfect stage for me, someone only a little younger than Tyler and who couldn't get into him before, to relate to him. Tyler is using his insecurity about what he should be doing versus how he is doing as the vehicle for this album’s message.

Hey Jane, brings about a tone shift from the first half of the album. The first few songs feel like you can only go up. Hey, Jane pulls up and slows things down, reminding you and Tyler as the narrator that things are happening outside of you and it's time to come back down to earth.

Judge Judy, brings about a tongue-in-cheek, “corniness” that Tyler pulls off in a way that I haven't identified with since Roses by Outkast. This “corniness” serves to play into how Tyler and those who identify with his lyrics aren't there yet, maturity-wise despite adult themes. We're all just out here d*ckin around.

Another perfect swag track to add to his repertoire is Sticky. Tyler fully embraces the “bitch track” (a la RuPaul) by declaring I'm that n*gga and that b*tch. He also does that by putting some of the hottest women in rap on the song. I damn near jumped out of my skin when I heard GloRilla. Sexyy Red, not so much. I will say that I was pleasantly surprised by her. She was used to her strength, as a seasoning and not a main ingredient. Both GloRilla and Sexyy Red’s verses were tight and didn't overstay their welcome. No notes. Then Lil’ Wayne comes in and I'm jumping for joy. The 12-year-old in me that grew up with the Carter 3 is appeased. Sticky is a new favorite!

The narration over certain songs and transitions kind of reminds me of a mother or older sibling. Doling out sometimes misguided advice. The voice being peppered throughout the album is almost like a voice in the listener's head. The voice prescribes their virtues but also says how proud they are and how much they love you.

Balloon Ft Doechii is another great collab track and plays to the vibe both artists are on right now. The song embraces the queer and dance elements that Doechii has been utilizing for Alligator Bites Never Heal while seamlessly fitting into Chromakopia.

Balloon flows into the album's final track: I Hope You Find Your Way Home which serves as the cathartic roll credits on the album and perhaps the Call Me If You Get Lost era also. The song ends with the barking that Tyler has been adding to his songs as of late. As well as by calling out the album title Chromakopia, the same way as the album's first track St. Chroma. This perhaps is ushering us toward whatever Tyler has in store for the future.

I'm sad I didn't get the Doja Cat collab that Coachella had me convinced would materialize and the album was desperately needed (if only because the eras are so similar and it would make me happy). I think I'll be looking forward to whatever Tyler may do next. Maybe I am a fan.

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Doubt it.

Based on what I read in the wiki about him and the series, Cutthroat and Swindler's relationship is the stereotypical one of a serial killer and his target. We have seen it time and time again in horror films of a killer hunting down a female protagonist. Based on what I've read of him in the wiki, I don't get any hint that Cutthroat likes Swindler romantically. He has a fixation on her to become his next murder victim. Just the fact that he has zero romantic interest in her, it puts him out of the running in being a yandere. He's more likely a yangire.

I didn't watch The Nightmare Before Christmas until just this month (shame on me), but it was one hell of a romp. A simple story, but executed masterfully for its time.

Also, I'm pretty sure that Jack Skellington and Sally were the sexual awakening for a lot of Hot Topic kids.

FRED Watch Quickie Film Review: Toy Story 4 (2019)

SPORKTACULAR!

I’m a Fulya Kantarmaci and welcome to FRED Watch, where we review everything from the mainstream to the obscure. Today’s film Toy Story 4…

Walt Disney Pictures / Pixar Animation Studios

Woody (Tom Hanks) has to convince a spork named Forky (Tony Hale) that he is now a toy who means the world to kindergartener Bonnie (Madeleine McGraw) while also babysitting him throughout their…

So uh... anon. You really left out that James and the MC are biological siblings and that makes this an incest psychological horror story...

Not that I mind doing a quickie review on that since I (Kai) isn’t troubled by it, but reading the synopsis did leave me with some psychic damage with no forewarning haha :’)

Anyways, I tried looking for a wiki or breakdown of events in the book but I couldn’t find anything besides some vague book reviews. But let’s breakdown the facts:

I read through the oneshot and I’d say yeah, Karuto is a yandere. In the way of oneshots, the author did a pretty good job in going in-depth for Karuto but they could have done more. Ngl, the author wasted too much time on exposition and world-building when they should have primarily focused on just the characters with the number of pages they had to work with. That exposition dump, oof. Killed me. Karuto is hovering between a ⅘ and 5/5 because the author could have gone in more about their relationship and how Karuto killed Lilly. 

Hey there anon. Kai here!

I vaguely remember watching both versions of this movie when I was younger. Wasn’t really memorable, so I don’t think Eli is a yandere. But let’s consult the wiki!

Yoof, was this asked because of the new Twilight book coming out? This sent us into a swirl just like the Lolita ask.

Anyways, racking my brain as I try to remember Twilight... Julie and I consider Edward his... own sort of special breed. Kind of like a cross between those emo kids and a school shooter kid. There’s the shoujo male protagonist type and then there’s the YA novel male protagonist. He’s pretty much on the same wavelength as that male lead from Hush Hush when we discussed that a while back. I kinda get where people can imagine it: considering he pretty much stalker Bella and was like a weird territorial dog. But... besides that, there’s nothing else that comes across to tell us that he is “lovesick”. In the first book, Edward was all for Bella staying away and for her to be with another dude. It was through Bella’s insistence and meddling did he finally gave in.New Moon, Edward was still on his shit about Bella but now he disappeared to help her move on. Eclipse, Edward finally doubled down but I’m sure if Bella were to suddenly hop on Team Jacob, Edward wouldn’t put up a fight. Breaking Dawn, Edward was pretty much backseat at this point. Overall, Edward is like a weird angsty teenager with raging hormones and makes bad life choices because of this. Besides the stalking incident in the first book and his rivalry with Jacob (but these two things were normal in YA novels ngl), there’s really nothing going for him.