{"id":13860,"date":"2025-07-21T21:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13860\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:37:09","slug":"5-takeaways-from-tyler-the-creators-new-album-dont-tap-the-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/13860\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Takeaways From Tyler, the Creator\u2019s New Album Don\u2019t Tap the Glass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stop trying to overthink this. There is a new Tyler, the Creator<\/a> album, and the only thing you\u2019re meant to do is dance along. No narrative interludes<\/a> to pick apart, no character-based storylines<\/a>, no eight-minute tell-alls<\/a>, and no three-parters<\/a>. Please leave that half-baked thinkpiece in your drafts (\u201cNone of that deep shit!\u201d). On Don\u2019t Tap the Glass<\/a>, Tyler embraces the kineticism of his past work and fuses it with the free-flowing moods of regional stylings. From the bionic suave of his native Los Angeles, to the buoyant rhythms of the Midwest and Dirty South, Tyler\u2019s most concise record (just 10 songs, 28 minutes) dips and dabbles in sounds outside of his self-contained incubator. Here are five takeaways from Don\u2019t Tap the Glass.<\/p>\n

Superstar Status<\/p>\n

Tyler, the Creator used to have a real chip on his shoulder; his debut mixtape<\/a> literally started with him cursing out some then-relevant blogs that refused to cover him and Odd Future<\/a> as they were climbing up the ranks. With multiple No. 1 albums and Grammys in his pocket now, a lot of things have changed for him. Don\u2019t Tap the Glass is a genuine embrace of his superstardom. Tyler doesn\u2019t need Ye<\/a> and Wayne<\/a> to back him up<\/a> on a track, and he doesn\u2019t need DJ Drama<\/a> to yell at you about how everyone\u2019s toes are out on the yacht deck. The \u201cStop Playing With Me<\/a>\u201d video feels indicative of this shift. Here he is in a room dancing by himself with two big-ass speakers. It mostly stays like this: There are no outfit changes, no elaborate set designs or costumes. He appears simply as himself. Sure, he can tap Clipse<\/a>, LeBron, and Mav Carter to make cameos, but that feels more like an \u201cI\u2019m doing this \u2019cause I\u2019m Tyler, the Creator\u201d moment than a way of proving his relevance.<\/p>\n

Body Movement. No Sitting Still.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t Tap the Glass comes with a straightforward message, explained in a long-winded statement he posted online<\/a>. Lamenting society\u2019s collective fear of embarrassment-via-self-expression, he urges people to put the phones down and dance. \u201cA natural form of expression and a certain connection [people] have with music is now a ghost,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIt made me wonder how much of our human spirit got killed because of the fear of being a meme.\u201d Now, if you couldn\u2019t tell by the album\u2019s dynamic beats, the lyrics are yelling at you to stop thinking so damn much. He\u2019s pushing baby blue Bimmers and eating cream pies in the backseat, calling his exes and flirting with theirs. Yeah, it\u2019s a little nasty, but the point is to do what feels good! The album\u2019s most important line comes in the form of a simple command on the dreamy \u201cDon\u2019t You Worry Baby\u201d: \u201cDamn, girl, you better move yo\u2019 hips!\u201d<\/p>\n

A Not-So-Secret Guest Feature<\/p>\n

A big part of the fan-artist dynamic in the social media era is the audience’s pointed, lofty expectations. (Tyler\u2019s definitely no stranger to this<\/a>.) Over the weekend, fan pages salivated over make-believe crossovers and posse cuts, not really considering the prospect of this being purely a solo album. And Don\u2019t Tap the Glass is pretty close to being just that. One unnamed feature on the intro sticks out though, complementing Tyler\u2019s characteristic moxie with seasoned, head-of-state bravado. I could be wrong, but I feel pretty confident that it\u2019s Pharrell<\/a> channeling Chuck D<\/a>\u2019s cadence through a talkbox. It hasn\u2019t been confirmed yet, but it makes sense for the Louis Vuitton head honcho<\/a> to be \u201cin Paris where it rains,\u201d flexing aircrafts and expensive jewelry. Considering how Pharrell has served as Tyler\u2019s lifelong lodestar and has regularly collaborated with him for over a decade, it makes a lot of sense. Also, you don\u2019t rap bars like, \u201cYou niggas don\u2019t talk to your accountant,\u201d unless you\u2019re at least 45.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stop trying to overthink this. There is a new Tyler, the Creator album, and the only thing you\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341,12739],"class_list":{"0":"post-13860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-takeaways"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}