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Tyler, The Creator’s IGOR is the subject of Dissect Season 10
Today we kickoff our 12-episode season analyzing the music, lyrics, and meaning of Tyler The Creator’s 2019 genre-bending album, IGOR.
What is Kendrick Lamar’s Best Song…EVER?
Introducing LAST SONG STANDING, a new show in which Cole Cuchna (Dissect) and Charles Holmes (The Ringer) attempt the impossible: crowning the single best Kendrick Lamar song of all time.
To do this, Cole and Charles will debate their way through Kendrick’s entire catalog over 7 episodes. First up? good kid, m.A.A.d. city.
Listen to LAST SONG STANDING now on the Dissect feed.
Dissect’s Cole Cuchna Gives TEDx Talk
Dissect host Cole Cuchna had the honor of giving a TEDx Talk at UC Berkeley. Through the music of Kanye West, Ariana Grande, and Dimitri Shostakovich, Cole shared his belief in the power of listening to cultivate empathy and understanding.
Season 9: Mac Miller’s Swimming in Circles
Season 9 is dedicated to Mac Miller’s Swimming In Circles. Over 14 episodes, we dissect the music, lyrics, and meaning of Mac’s beautifully honest efforts to swim amidst the often tumultuous currents of the human experience.
Season 8 Merch!
We went ALL OUT for our new Season 8 merch. Printed on the highest quality heavy weight luxury garments, these pieces will have you dripping all summer. Extremely limited single run.
Season 8: YEEZUS by Kanye West
BLACK IS KING. A mini-series. 7 episodes released over 7 days starting Monday, January 25th. Only on Spotify.
Dissect applies its award-winning analysis to the symbols, themes, and meaning of Beyonce’s film BLACK IS KING. From Dogon masks to durags, from Moses to Mansa Musa, from Bey’s backyard to Johannesburg, and from life, death, and the spiritual spaces in between, BLACK IS KING traverses freely across time, space, and cultures to highlight their connection and showcase a greater, unified Black lineage. Through this grand celebration of the Motherland, Beyonce demonstrates the profound connection that we all have to each other in this great circle of life on planet earth.
Mac Miller’s “Swimming In Circles” Analysis Video
Ep. 8 – The Party / No Exit
After the wedding scenes that 3005 soundtracks in the screenplay, the script cuts to The Boy playing piano at his mansion as people start to arrive for yet another party, prompting the beginning of Act 3, the aptly-titled “Playing Around Before the Party Starts.”
“It was the closest you could get to having powers.”
BTI Screenplay, Act 3
The mansion is starting to get messier and messier, and apparently the cleaners have stopped showing up because they weren’t being paid. There’s trash everywhere, surfaces are sticky, and you can’t slide around on the floor. The script mourns this: “Now, dried alcohol stops you before you even get to the kitchen door. The Boy really loved sliding into the kitchen when he was a kid. It was the closest you could get to having powers.“
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