I felt like I was in the minority, even now as Cherry Bomb is still considered to be one of Tyler’s weakest albums.

Even some of my friends who were Tyler fans found the album to be just strange and a step down from his old stuff. Critics called the album cluttered, poorly mixed, and unnecessarily abrasive. Personally, I enjoyed Cherry Bomb when it first released, it felt uniquely “Tyler” in a sense, an album that only he could make. 2015’s Cherry Bomb is the album that signaled this change and would pave the way for his follow-up’s Flower Boy and IGOR to build upon, in terms of Tyler’s style of production and lyricism. Starting off as an aggressive, edgelord rapper and then blossoming into a soulful, lush artist within the span of the entire 2010’s was a day and night transition. no musician has been through such an artistic evolution other than Tyler in the past decade. As we get closer to the release of Tyler, The Creator’s next album this Friday, I’ve found myself revisiting his older albums in anticipation.

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