![]() The best thing Cherry Bomb has going for it is relative brevity. ![]() It’s a smart, annoying, obnoxious, creative, and borderline genius tactic from someone still working on reaching his final form. What makes the joke "land," of course, is that the song is really good, a warm-sounding piece of pop music complete with an appearance from the ineffable Charlie Wilson. His idea of a joke is making the lead single to his rap album a Stevie Wonder-inspired bop about an underage relationship. He’s still occasionally obnoxious and shockingly adolescent for someone almost a quarter-century old (on "Smuckers" he defiantly raps, "Fuck your loud pack, and fuck your Snapchat" with the gusto of Ian MacKaye declaring his devotion to straight edge). Cherry Bomb isn’t exactly a hard left turn from this lane, but it is a quick swerve. ![]() ![]() His greatest strength has always been world-building, using a synth-heavy blitz of candy-colored jazz chords taken straight (sometimes blatantly so) from the Pharrell handbook. Cherry Bomb, Tyler’s fourth long-player and third official album, complements his self-professed characteristics to a T, in ways both good and bad. ![]()
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