So as you may know, Tyler the Creator has just released a teaser trailer for his next album, Chromakopia, and there is something in that trailer that nobody has noticed. It’s the name of the album, and I’m not talking about the name itself; I’m talking about the far-deep meaning behind it.
What did you miss from Tyler, the Creator album ‘Chromakopia’ teaser?
You see, the name says a lot about the album if you dissect it. Let’s start by taking the first part of the word chromakopia, ‘chroma.’ Now if you look at the Oxford dictionary and see that chroma means purity of intensity of a color, But Tyler is not a simple man; all of Tyler’s past work always has a deeper meaning to it, and the pattern continues here as well. If we look at the entirety of the trailer up until the end point, we can see that the video has a dark and colorless filter to it, but what happens at the end is a bomb is set off and the filter disappears with the screen turning colorful and vibrant. But you’re probably wondering what this has to do with anything. Well, I’ll tell you what this had to do with anything. This is a clear sign that this album will be completely different from all his albums in the sense that it will be creatively free, following no rules of music, just like the word chroma is colorfully free. Now, I bet you probably think you understand the album now, but you would be wrong.
If we take the second half of the word Chromakopia, ‘Kopia’ is a mix between the words Kopio and Utopia (meaning a place of perfection), which would most likely be referring to the vibrant colors at the end of the trailer and Kopia meaning to toil or to work, and this can mean only one thing: Tyler’s album will be about working to break free of the colorless boundaries that have been set in this fictional world, and that Tyler will be breaking musical boundaries, showing us a side of him we’ve never seen before with completely new ideas.
He broke the two-year rule as well, as he had previously released an album every two years. For the first time in thirteen years, Tyler’s album will be released without a Fast & Furious movie releasing around the same time.
Eleven days after Fast & Furious, in May 2011, he released his debut album, Goblin. Wolf (2013), Cherry Bomb (2015), Flower Boy (2017), and Igor (2019), Call Me if You Get Lost (2021), Call Me if You Get Lost: Deluxe Edition (2023), and now, Chromakopia in 2024, implying that things won’t be the same as last time.
