Rose Tinted Cheeks

Album: Single release only (2018)
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Songfacts®:

  • Tyler the Creator uploaded an unfinished demo for this confessional love song to YouTube on April 18, 2018. He'd originally written it for his 2017 Flower Boy album.

    "I've had [it] laying around and figured I just put it out as the demo/ rough draft," Tyler explained. "It is not really mixed or anything."

    He added that the vocals would have been re-recorded by "a girl who could actually sing."
  • The song plays out as if Tyler is leaving someone a voicemail.

    Hello, no one is available to take your call
    Please leave a message after the tone
    Beep


    Tyler also uses voice machine clips on the Flower Boy tracks "November" and "Glitter", demonstrating the song's connection to the album.
  • The song contains a reference to the 2016 movie 20th Century Women.

    They Black Flag we AF
    We BF as AF
    But they won't get that
    That's that 20 Century Women reference
    You so hard to get like intricate metaphors.


    The lyrics refer to a scene in 20th Century Women where William (Billy Crudup) and Dorothea Fields (Annette Benning) try to discern the lyrics to songs by Black Flag and supposedly "art fags" Talking Heads.

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