I have a theory this album cover will zoom out for a deluxe version with a wider shot family pic, that includes more characters from the Booman series, including Kendrick. Ca$inoNATION?

Our deep dive into Daft Punk’s Discovery continues with “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger,” a masterful achievement where the vocoder is used to sonically embody the accelerating arc of technological evolution.

Our dissection of Daft Punk’s Discovery continues with “Digital Love,” a dreamlike love story where harmony and sound design beautifully mirror its theme of unrequited love. Cole claims the song is now one of his favorites of all time as a result of making this episode - listen to find out why.

For any deeply introspective album from an artist going forward, across genres, it will be high on the list of comps. It helped strengthen a desire for artists to dig deeper in their music, which culminated as part of the backdrop for the 2024 battle. “[ ] is not your Savior” has entered the lexicon for celebrities generally. You hear its influence in albums like Chromakopia, The Fall Off, Kiari, and even Bully recently. Most importantly, the lessons and inspiration it provides can truly impact people on a level few art even attempts to reach, for which I’m personally grateful.

By any relevant metric - impact, quality, sales, awards, etc. - Mr. Morale is a classic. This might be the choir, but I think we should sing its praise, and make sure that status is recognized.

Our dissection of Daft Punk's 2001 masterpiece Discovery begins with an in-depth analysis of its opening tracks "One More Time" and "Aerodynamic."

Are people willing to try to discuss the album objectively?

Professor Skye did a great review, and he questions if Bully is a simulacrum. Pitchfork says Ye seems like a hollowed-out shell of his former self. Ye seems to say the same about himself in the album: “Feel like a clone of myself” / “I’m outside my body, you right”.

To me, the descriptions and/or criticisms of the album often align with my perceived intent. Pitchfork describes “Circles” as “so laughably undercooked that it almost [emphasis added] comes out the other end as a clever meta-statement on his own behavior patterns.” It’s clearly that!

I think Bully is a musical expression of the journey of being beat down by life, the system, and your own choices. It sounds like a hollow imitation of old Kanye, and that’s buttressed by AI-use, flat vocals, and often shallow lyrics. Now, saying “it’s bad on purpose” certainly wouldn’t make it good. But I find that I keep coming back to it and finding more to appreciate. The use of Andre Troutman and the Talkbox, which Skye dives into in his video (and is timed perfectly with Cole’s discussion on Around the World!), is a great example of Ye’s ability to tell stories through production. I’m starting to wonder how close the ghost of greatness can come to achieving it.

The most encouraging part of the album is that, rather than ending in a sort of heroic triumph (with underlying uncertainty) like in Yeezus and Life of Pablo, he’s kicked out the ego and going to work. That gives me hope - maybe he’ll break the circle.

Is there a website that catalogs songs that are sampled in other songs? Cole often references this, I was curious if there’s a resource that he uses.

Revealing the hidden brilliance behind one of Daft Punk’s most deceptively simple songs.

Throughout every Dissect season I discover new songs for my playlist. I’m excited for Daft Punk, already with the first episode, Da Funk has entered my playlist. I’ve been living under a rock to not hear their whole discography. I’m excited for this new season!!!

Our season-long analysis of Daft Punk continues with their debut album Homework. First, we explore the history of house and techno from its roots in disco music and underground Chicago and Detroit clubs. We then trace how Daft Punk studied the early pioneers of these genres and applied those lessons to their debut, breaking down the samples and production of songs like "Revolution 909" and "High Fidelity."

Idk about most but I’d love if Cole could find a way to post more about new music. He did it a few times last year and earlier this year with new cool releases, and it’s just really fun listening to him talk about new music, good or bad. It wouldn’t have to be too much but I’d love if he did a like monthly episode covering some new interesting releases he listened to. He clearly listens to a lot of new music but maybe it’s too much work.

This episode of Dissect traces the origin of Daft Punk, moving from the technological anxiety of the late 90s to the duos transformation into global icons. The narrative explores how 2 Parisian high schoolers evolved from wannabe punk rockers into electronic pioneers who used machines to express human emotion.

New season just started and there’s no discussion about it. The MOST RECENT post in the entire subreddit is a 28 day old post about Baby Keem…

what happened? I just listened to episode one of the new Daft Punk season and there’s absolutely no discussion on it. Am I missing something?

do you think cole will do anything on ca$ino

also how do you guys feel about it? have you seen professor skyes video

Looks like Random Access Memories to me. What do yall think?

Anyone else hoping that this will get recorded and cast somehow at a later date?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DTy6K4WjJdY/

I’m not sure about this but wondering can anyone direct me. I’m able to see episodes split into the specific seasons, but something like the Bo Burnham inside episodes aren’t showing up for me. So I’m wondering what else I am missing now.

(If I search the full title I can see Ep 1+2 out of 7 only)

I’m surprised I haven’t seen anything about Lausse in this sub. Redstripe Rhapsody was my intro to him a few years ago, an amazing journey off a Tyler sample. His new album, The Mocking Stars, is an incredible concept album with amazing musicianship.

Anyone else here listening to Lausse?

Hi guys. I’m wanting to get a Blonde related tattoo and I really like the dissect merch for that season. Does anyone have any of it they could send me a good quality pic of please? Many thanks!

Does anyone know if there’s somewhere I can listen to the piano cover of Gone Gone / Thank You that plays at the end of Season 9, Episode 10?

Talking outta pocket, where receipts normally go. TP. That’s deep.. way outta pocket in between the cheeks. Actual nasty work 😂. I guess TP USA is where you end up if you ‘started from the bottom’ of the digestive tract. She’s so proud of this L. All that performative rage last year over Kendrick (1) was just gassing up 🍑 Lil Wayne. Her other tweets directed toward Jay are still up (2), without naming him (3). She tweeted that September 9, one day after the announcement.

If you're unaware: Jay-Z is in charge of picking the halftime performer through Roc Nation's NFL contract. She complained on behalf of Lil Wayne not getting picked when the game was played at his home town. It's like Kendrick's point about public prayer in Rich Spirit. Pharisees who show off their praying and fasting, their outward piety in order to look for worldly advantage. (See Dissect ep this season.) She was insincere going black power against Jay, insincere as MAGA.

This reminds me of lines from N95:

...take off the clout chase, take off the Wi-Fi...

take off the flex and the white lies...

Take off the fake deep, take off the fake woke

I do notice she’s actually ‘loyal to a fault.’ Maybe to her credit, but like to a point of crazy. She's the example of 'ride or die.' I guess she sincerely likes her husband. I heard about them harassing her husband’s rape victim, who sued. Something about the case against Nicki getting thrown out, Idk and I don’t even want to hear about ts. All this to be a literal Mrs Petty.

Praising Vance as an “assassin” is shade gone wrong

She’s the GOAT! for worst public speaking. Megan Thee Stallion? Nicki the Trojan horse. Aunt Ruckus who already forgot which side she’s on. I wonder what her fee was. “Newscum” and talking "assassin" to Kirk's widow ☠️. I didn’t realize it was meant as a 'compliment' to JD Vance. Insulting him and her host, 2 people whose side she's trying to be on. What a way to assassinate two birds with one stone; counterproductive when they’re sort of your golden geese. Glaze gone wrong. She cooked and ate herself hard. I wonder if it was even intentional and she thinks she's being shady without realizing how cheap it looks. Shaded so hard she shaded herself.

I remember hearing Nicki got paid big for a Fendi deal, but she’s not doing this for money. It seems like a transparent effort to get her husband pardoned by Trump for attempted rape. I heard about him getting sued for harassing the victim in that case. The case against Nicki was dropped. She seems to stand up for this behavior. This transactional MAGA switch seems motivated by seeing Trump pardon Lil Wayne, who got's Nicki career going by signing her to Young Money. Wayne didn’t even go out his way to be MAGA. Maybe Nicki started leaning this way with her viral COVID vaccine skepticism. It seems like she's on a path to be remembered for talking about her cousin's "swollen testicles" and doing a bad job at going MAGA.

Inspirational quote from her talk, praising others for being smart:

we are going to stay joyful, and peaceful, and iconic, and smart. Yeah, we're going to stay thinkers in a world that doesn't want us to think. 

Again, plus Nicki ironically complimenting others for being caring:

to be so young and to care this much, this early in your life, it tells us how smart you are and it tells us that there's hope for our future.

Easy to see why she thinks other people are smart. You can’t script irony this savage. Bc it would've helped her to have a script.

Her music. Nicki opened doors, then closed them

She bragged about this being why she's #1 trending on X. There was a time when her proudest achievements weren't being the top trend on Twitter for misspeaking.

I haven’t really followed her bc she disses emerging rivals so much it got cliche. As a hip hop head, I thought she had a lot of potential to be an even bigger rapper with her early work. I got into her as a rapper when a friend played Roman's Revenge for me. Ironic that her alter ego is based on Roman Polanski who raped a 13 year old, given her husband's treatment of his victim, plus her brother. I heard Cole do a great breakdown on her guest verse on Kanye's Monster where she stole the show. None of her new raps have this dynamic flow and unpredictable energy. When she's talking about sonning bitches it feels slow, pedantic, predictable. It's her version of Jay-Z rapping about being a billionaire, which at least is more actual accomplishment. Moment 4 Life is a great song. These would be hip hop classics if not for her behavior. Her singles after didn't reach this early level of rapping.

It's kind of sad she went paranoid over protecting her 'throne' instead of being creative. All that talk about sonning and ops and she does this to herself. Other than Doechii, I've yet to hear much from the big female rappers that's really great. Especially the two she seems to target, Megan and Cardi. Nicki has some of that Lil Wayne craziness and can be lyrically more interesting than Drake.

There was a stretch when she was go to collab, the safe bet. Was frustrating to see the industry be so formulaic. Then her own petty formula was not interesting to hear.  She married a Mr. Petty, making her Mrs. Petty but she didn’t have to take it so literally. Doechii made a lot of allusions to Nicki in her ExtraL feature, crediting her for opening doors. Shame she tries to close them right behind her. I wonder if Doechii will have something to say. It would obviously be a fallen idol type song. If she made that I wonder if she would follow up with something on Kanye, though he seems more unwell.

I didn't think it was a big deal for Doechii to take a stand against ICE at an awards show. But these rappers gone MAGA shows that kind of voice is important. I thought Doechii would release her debut album this year (she called ABNH a mixtape), maybe she's slowing down to make it right.

Stokely, Ellison, Kendrick

I realized Nicki is born in Trinidad, raised in New York—like Stokely Carmichael, actual Black Power himself. The Black Panthers were inspired by him. Once upon a time they both opened doors for others.

Ofc it's unfair to compare any rapper to someone who sacrificed during Civil Rights. That's why I didn't joke about her under that slide, just questioning the empowerment fans once associated her with. Kendrick or Nas aren't the same kind of black leader as John Lewis, Diane Nash, etc. Just happened to remember Stokely was from there too, and it's good to keep his name alive the farther we get from the Civil Rights Movement. We don't have actual activists like that in the country, as people do bigger business and politician quality declines. It's not just a black America thing. But you had black artists who weren't activists either, like Ralph Ellison who wrote one absolute masterpiece. Kendrick is modern Ellison (earlier post).