When will misogynistic and homophobic ranting and raving result in meaningful repercussions in the entertainment industry? When will they be treated with the same seriousness as racist and anti-Semitic offenses? While an artist who can barely get a sentence fragment out without using homophobic slurs is celebrated on the cover of every magazine, blog and newspaper, I’m disheartened that any self-respecting human being could stand in support with a message so vile. Their message is one MTV execs should take a look at: It’s an irresponsible message for him to send to his young fans,” McLeod continued.Ĭanadian indie-band, twin-sister duo Tegan and Sara wrote a call to action in May for journalists and colleagues that celebrated Tyler’s music. The reality is that anti-gay slurs are harmful,” GLAAD’s Kimberley McLeod told . ”They have the power to fuel intolerance and hostility. “Whether or not Tyler the Creator intends to offend gay people is irrelevant. Some people might take it the other way I personally don’t give a sh–.”īut regardless of his intent, the words are still problematic. “If you call me a n-a, I really don’t care, but that’s just me, personally. If it offends you, it offends you,” Tyler told MTV News of his gay slurs. “Well, I have gay fans and they don’t really take it offensive, so I don’t know. Songs similar to Goblin by Tyler, the Creator, such as Bitch, Dont Kill My Vibe by Kendrick Lamar, Grown Up by Danny Brown, The Drop by Viktor Vaughn. I don’t want anyone to think I’m homophobic,” Tyler told NME in an interview earlier this year after the group the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation ( GLAAD) said it would be “monitoring his lyrics more closely.” I don’t know, we don’t think about it, we’re just kids. I just think ‘faggot’ hits and hurts people. (This, of course, after Tyler put the microphone up to the hosts mouth as if he was performing fellatio.) His use of the word in his music, interviews and on Twitter is so prevalent that after a “red carpet” interview Sunday during the MTV awards pre-show, one of the hosts joked about looking forward to reading Tyler’s homophobic tweets about the interview. (Tyler uses the exact words “fag” or “faggot” a total of nine times on “Goblin,” according to The Fader). His latest album, “Goblin,” uses the word “faggot” and variants of anti-gay lyrics a total of 213 times, according to NME, a music weekly. Whatever bits you cull for your stance, Goblin's a blessing, in the form of a dandy-era reprieve helping restore opinion to rap.Tyler the Creator’s Mom at the MTV Music Video Awards Sunday.īut if you consider all the moms who have gay and lesbian teens who come home crying complaining of the bullying they face in schools, or the moms who have lost their young boys because they couldn’t take it anymore, you really wish that MTV executives would’ve never put Tyler the Creator on the ballot for Best New Artist in the first place. No, you chill! Like the creepy shrink narrator, it's all characterization or, "Don't fucking blame me, white America," says Tyler on "Radicals." For real though, Goblin is as funny ("Boppin Bitch"), down-to-earth ("Golden"), fearful and open ("Goblin") as it is juvenile (again, "Boppin' Bitch"), regressive ("Bitch Suck Dick") and maddeningly repetitive. Um, Tyler needs to chill with the rapey, calling girls bitches, anti-gay content. Obvious, try and conjure Def Jux-y and The Love Below-era Andre 3000-type vibes. Goblin has the Neptunes/Eminem/Wu-Tang Clan/Necro written all over it. Here's how that debate might play out: Goblin's 18 tracks stretch the runtime too long or MOAR sullen, squandering opuses! Tyler's too whiny, his content too repetitive and entry-level aggro or maybe his rambling, profane, gross-out verses are just prodigiously groomed. Tempering expectations with output is mad hard but the praise and pans help parse the intense, weird, largely self-produced (minus Left Brain's "Transylvania") record. For all the supposedly unanimous publicity tailing the L.A.-based troupe around the overzealous, troll-y, cache-cashing Internet, Goblin is hella divisive. Parents and defenders of good taste should be just as horrified because God damn I love bitches/Especially when they just suck dick and do dishes (Transylvania) is the way Tyler, the Creator rolls, coming incorrectly in a ski mask, irresponsibly rapping about rape, and with suicidal tendencies: the mindset, not the band. Published Goblin is the post-implosion sophomore record from Odd Future's charismatic lead bully, Tyler, the Creator.
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