Symbolism Behind See You Again Music Video Tyler the Creator

Tyler, the Creator's new music video "Run across Yous Again" is Marxist propaganda.

Tyler's radio striking "dear song" has made waves in pop civilization in the few days it's been released. Being a fan of the album, I decided to scout information technology myself. I was immediately thrown off by the video and the imagery used in it, as information technology was filmed in a war machine ship and on a landing strip. It didn't take much to realize that this is not a love vocal, this is definitely Tyler speaking to his Marxist tendencies.

The music video in question.

Here is my analysis…

"Yous live in my dream state

Relocate my fantasy

I stay in reality

You alive in my dream state

Anytime I count sheep

That'southward the only fourth dimension nosotros brand upwards, make upwards

You exist behind my eyelids, my eyelids

Now I don't wanna wake up"

This is alluding to Mao's piece of work on the process of knowledge, cognition, into practice. This is a quote from Mao'southward essay "Where Exercise Correct Ideas Come From?"

"At get-go, knowledge is perceptual. The leap to conceptual noesis, i.e., to ideas, occurs when sufficient perceptual cognition is accumulated. This is one process in knowledge. It is the outset phase in the whole process of cognition, the phase leading from objective thing to subjective consciousness from existence to ideas. Whether or non i'due south consciousness or ideas (including theories, policies, plans or measures) practise correctly reverberate the laws of the objective external world is not still proved at this phase, in which it is not yet possible to define whether they are correct or not. Then comes the second phase in the procedure of noesis, the stage leading from consciousness back to affair, from ideas back to existence, in which the knowledge gained in the showtime stage is applied in social practice to ascertain whether the theories, policies, plans or measures come across with the anticipated success."

Tyler speaking of his dream state is thinking about revolution as a worker. He recognizes that his thought of revolution is in his head, so he stays in reality to pursue revolution because otherwise he'd be an idealist rather than a materialist. In the music video, you can see him inside of what looks like a ship, with his comrade preparation side by side to him. Another comrade on the ship is A$AP Rocky, who is rocking the flag of Communist china in the picture below (it's a sick Gosha piece). He probable agreed to be in the music video because of his Marxist tendencies.

"xx/twenty, 20/20 vision

Cupid hit me, cupid hit me with precision, I

Wonder if you expect both ways

When you cross my heed, I said, I said

I'one thousand sick of, sick of, sick of, sick of chasing

You're the i that's ever running through my day dreams, I

I tin can only meet your confront when I close my eyes"

Tyler can run across twenty/twenty considering he is post-obit the right process in his quest for cognition that has yet to be put into practice. Mao speaks specifically to reaching many failures before reaching success. This is Tyler condign tired of chasing revolution through means that oasis't been working, while his vision of revolution feels and so articulate. This is something I feel nosotros have all been through. Tyler in this scene is looking out of the window, towards revolution.

"Tin can I get a kiss?

And can you arrive last forever?

I said I'1000 'bout to go to war

And I don't know if I'ma meet you again

Tin can I go a kiss? (Can I?)

And tin you go far last forever? (Tin can you?)

I said I'm 'bout to go to war (I'one thousand 'bout to)

And I don't know if I'ma see you again

(Uh, switch information technology up)"

This is the revolution speaking to Tyler. This is symbolized through a red gunkhole with people wearing yellow jackets on it (colors used past many revolutionary armies), that is close but still somewhat distant from Tyler's send. The lyrics are almost going to war, specifically the state of war against imperialism and the bourgeoisie. Right before Tyler's line yous tin can encounter her comrades jump into the water, probable going to state of war.

Since Tyler can encounter the revolution get-go, he goes out and starts to organize with his militant comrades, all of which are wearing red berets (normally associated with leftist militant movements). Tyler is wearing a gold beret and ruddy shoes, which again is a common color scheme in leftist movements. The lyricism through this scene is peculiarly important.

"I said, okay, okay, okay, okie dokie, my infatuation

Is translatin' to another class of what you telephone call it?

Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, I own't met you lot

I've been looking, stop the waiting

'fore I finish the chasing, like a alcoholic

You don't understand me, what the fuck practice y'all hateful?

It's them rose tinted cheeks, yeah it's them dirt-colored eyes

Sugar honey iced tea, bumblebee on the scene

Yep I'd requite up my bakery to take a piece of your pie

Yeugh!"

Okay, so this is where it gets to be decently glaring. Tyler in some lines is describing how much he loves revolution and the communist struggle. Most importantly he goes back to Mao's theory, on creating the right ideas and post-obit the process of cognition. His infatuation (idea) is translating into some other course, which is practice. Proverb "I own't met you" is stating the fact that we have withal to run into a communist revolution in the Usa, and the next few lines are nigh how he'due south tired of waiting for it. "You don't understand me, what the fuck practise you lot mean?," is Tyler existence frustrated with his audience and the full general lack of class consciousness. Information technology is sort of trying to call attention to the people that think this is just some sappy idealist dear song and have them consider a deeper meaning. The style Tyler describes his honey for revolution is romantic, with imagery that is unremarkably associated with the worker (the bumblebee). Most importantly, Tyler talks nigh committing class suicide by peacefully forfeiting his theoretical baker (ownership of a business equally a member of the bourgeoisie), and settling for a piece of the revolution'south worker-owned pie rather than owning an oppressive business organisation.

Tyler repeats the pre-chorus again. This time, he is in the shadows wearing a Ushanka, a piece of vesture commonly associated with Soviet Russian federation. Now, where there would normally exist a hammer and sickle emblem on the Ushanka is covered by the shadows. I feel as if Tyler did not want to make his message besides obvious. As a adept Marxist-Leninist, Tyler does not want to alienate the masses by showing a symbol that is often frowned upon in the west. Now, a lot of yous are probably thinking "Come up on dude! That is a stretch." But it's really not, Tyler can exist seen wearing a Ushanka with a hammer and sickle emblem on it at the Grammy'southward.

Tyler wearing an Ushanka

Tyler is seen dancing around in joy at the movement of his comrades. This fades into Tyler'due south song "Where This Flower Blooms," and a totally different landscape.

"Ayo

Let's take it back to them days

Counting sheep on Sadie Hannah's floor

Carpet was my baby mama

80 dollar turn a profit from the coffee I poured

Hire-A-Center calling everyday

Nobody home, they're knocking on the door

Now I skrrt, skrrt, skrrt, skrrt

In toys I only dreamed that I could afford

Now I roll through Okaga"

This is really a perfect style to close out the video, which kind of seems out of left field for a music video that is supposed to only feature the song "Meet Yous Again." Tyler clearly has artistic intention in adding a small part of this vocal to the cease of the video, which seems totally irrelevant to the "love story" narrative. Merely when viewed through the Marxist lens does this transition make sense. Tyler is speaking to where he came from before fame and riches. The whole nine yards of being working class, dealing with debt collectors and working a lower wage job while the employer takes his surplus value. He explicitly mentions this idea in the line "lxxx dollar profit from the java I poured." This is Tyler recognizing that at to this solar day, his surplus value is extracted from him. His employer makes more off of his work, even though he's the ane doing the work. In the music video, Tyler is wearing a ghost costume. This is Tyler personifying the specter of communism, mentioned by Karl Marx in the offset line of The Communist Manifesto. When Tyler takes off the cloak, and the specter disappears, worker bees come flying out and the music video ends.

Say what you lot will, merely I recollect this music video makes more sense as a political statement than a beloved song.

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Source: https://medium.com/@leftisthiphop/tyler-the-creators-new-music-video-see-you-again-is-marxist-propaganda-92a220785120

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