#BODEN’S not so silly journal anymore

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And she just said i was cute is all

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I said thank you

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Actual bars

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I might slide on ur block with intelligence

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Ye just made crypto

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Invest now bitches

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It just dropped 15 mins ago

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Its worth 1 dollar rn

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I popped 3 melatonin

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Imma be a sleepy boy

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Ive got a half day at school today

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Ion even know where half my classes are 😭

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Ill figure it out

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imagine

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It in school too dont forget

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Mf the school is renovating so the names and numbers are outdated 😭

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Oh

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L

red hollow
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<@&1017490570668691606> i have a question

robust drum
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I may be able to answer but if not the mods will still answer

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Can i dm you

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Bc its an image

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100%

jolly flume
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Ok

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Ko made an image of me in an anime style Joy Joy Joy Joy Joy

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I cant get over how cool it looks

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Im such a happy lil guy

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The crown of thorns is a request

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I didnt have an actual crown of thorns

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I actually debated asking for that

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You would have to ask them

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Malice is a better rapper than pusha

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Lyrically

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“The way you spelled it out there is an L in every lesson”
-malice, The Birds Dont Sing

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Just because Malice is better doesn't mean push is bad

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I just think malice flows wayyyy better too

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Push is goated

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Malice is on a generational run this year

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Mhm

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Malice has the better verse on most clipse songs

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Absolutely

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Granted i actually think they're pretty even on So Be It

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True

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The production on that song is goated

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Best beat of the year in me and my brothers opinion

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Mhm

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The hooligans

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Ko is so good

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I have such and angry looking face lol

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Its so awesome

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I didnt know how to respond

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Lol

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My back hurts so badly

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After work

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Im rly fuckin pissed

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I got on the Ye news in a server

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Ive reached peak

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This was the original pic that i took in the car when I realized

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For a fucked up shoulder its muscles are pretty rigid and gard

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Hard*

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lean core

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I got two mosquito bites on my hand

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And like 2 on each foot

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Peach passion fruit

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Not peach

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Mango

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Mb

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Celsius obsession core

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Yes

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Im so sleepy

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Please explain why the FUCK i have gay furry femboy on my fyp (no hate im just not part of dat)

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Man i miss my gf

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Hardly got to talk to her today Cri

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😞

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Fuck the world

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My gums are slightly burned from the caffeine pouches

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(Like zyns but no nic)

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You use them the same way

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Currently carrying highschool

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God i need a fucking cigarette

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If i had one rn i would

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Should have taken some from work

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Stay strong 💪🏻

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I got free cheese curds from work yesterday

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Ngl i just cooked

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Im the shower i free-styled to the last three minutes of runaway by kanye

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Back to being alone

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Probably better for most ppl

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:/

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One day im gonna do something baf

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And its gonna be a shame to have known me

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Damn ko that was fast

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Hru? 👍👎?

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Or meh

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Good?

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Thats good to hear

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Very good ko

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Im happy for you

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Man this song is good

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Future is just goated

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Man i love my gf sm

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Muah

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Muah

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Muah

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Muaaaah

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Muah

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Muaaah

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Muh

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Muah

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Mmmmmuuuuuaaaaaahhhhh

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Muah

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Muah

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Muah

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Muah

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Muah

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Muah

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If i was with her i would just kiss her face

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And her neck

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And

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Her mouth

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And

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Uhhhhmmm

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Uhhhh

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😳😳

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tehhe

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Hehe

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Ha

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Hahaha

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:3

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I love you emiiiii

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Muah

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Chat i literally made a song about and for her

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I literally love her so much

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Rawr

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I miss my beautiful perfect girlfriend huddleyay huddleyay huddleyay

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Im gonna make another song abt her cus why tf nothuddlerawr huddlerawr blurrycry

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@jolly flume Look what i just found

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Actually nah this goes for all y’all mfs out there

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Also goes for guys

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Buh buh

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Buh

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Buh

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Buh buh

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Literally me rn

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Nah thats not me

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This is me

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Maybe emi’s feeling was right

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She said she had a terrible feeling or something

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She said she had a feeling something was wrong

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Im probably fine

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Runaway from me

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Got school tomorrow

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Gn

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Game i wanted to buy finally got added to game pass

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So thats pretty cool

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Cheered me up a little bit

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Why do i have to be so fuckin bad at expressing my feelings

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Surgery tomorrow

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I might be less active due to recovery

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Just letting everyone know

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Thats nothing bad has happened

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Im just recovering

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Then again

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I might not be offline more

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Who knows

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Gudluck man

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You can do this huddleheartshape

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About 14 hours

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In about 5 hours i have to stop eating and drinking anything except for water

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I vaguely remember having my diet restricted years ago when I got my wisdom teeth removed. Not pleasant

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Well you got plenty of people who support you and I also know you have it in you to get through this

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Yo who wanna play helldivers 2 w me

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Oh wait I ate him

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Mb

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I think she likes monsters guys

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Surgetery wend twell

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Damn my hanf is numb

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From yo nerves blocker

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Ah good good hopefully recovery is easy

jolly flume
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Hardly got any sleep

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I got like 10 hours, but it’s never enough

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Graaaah my shoulder is hurtin

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Co worker gave me some “special” gummies for after the surgery Yummers Yummers

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They actually might help with pain

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Got a new game today!!!

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Nba 2k 26

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Its pretty fun!!!

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I might get mgs 3 remaster too!

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Ive been waiting for that for a few months now

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I miss my gfffffffff

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I hope she is sleeping having sweet dreams

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Damn my shoulder under the wrapping itches

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Damn bro i look so buns

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Context (why this film exists)

Kanye built a 35-minute short film to frame the album’s comeback arc after the 2009 VMA fallout. He literally said the phoenix parallels his career: burn → return better. That’s the key you use to decode everything else.
He directed it himself, with Hype Williams on script, Vanessa Beecroft shaping the art direction, and model Selita Ebanks as the Phoenix. The film pulls from Purple Rain, The Wall, Thriller, plus fine-art references (Picasso, Matisse) and Kubrick-style framing.

Narrative in one line

Griffin (Ye) finds a fallen Phoenix, tries to fit her into “our” world, society rejects her, and she chooses self-immolation over assimilation. That’s the emotional engine the “Runaway” performance sits inside.

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The major symbols

  1. The Phoenix (Selita Ebanks)
    She’s rebirth and radical difference. The film even states the thesis out loud: “Anything that is different you try to change.” She refuses that fate and returns to fire. Read as: the artist/muse won’t be domesticated by industry norms or public narrative. It’s also Ye’s self-portrait after the “career burn.”

  2. Griffin’s name
    A griffin is a hybrid creature. Naming the protagonist “Griffin” mirrors the Phoenix’s hybridity and Ye’s blend of high culture/low culture, rap/fine-art, sinner/supplicant. (This one’s interpretive, but the hybrid echo is too neat to ignore.)

  3. The crash + comet
    Opening with Mozart’s “Lacrimosa,” a car crash, and a literal fallen star collapses Ye’s real-life wreck → rebirth into myth. Contemporary coverage even tied that crash imagery to the Through the Wire origin story.

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  1. The parade & the giant Michael Jackson head
    Griffin “introduces” the Phoenix to his world via spectacle: a papier-mâché MJ bust, marching band, fireworks. It’s a walk through pop canon and hero worship — showing her the heights and hollowness of cultural idolatry he’s both chasing and critiquing.

  2. The dinner party (assimilation test)
    Everyone’s in white — conformity/civility — while Griffin and the Phoenix visually read as outsiders. The menu winks at sacrament (pink “wine,” bread, loaves/fishes), making the space church-coded. Then they serve turkey, and the Phoenix screams: the feast literally asks the “bird” to accept the consumption of her own kind. That’s the cost of fitting in.

  3. “Runaway” with the ballerinas
    High art (ballet) meets a hook that toasts “douchebags” and “assholes.” That clash is the point: the refined frame around messy, self-aware confession. Critics called out that exact juxtaposition — classical poise vs. toxic behavior — as the sequence’s punch.

  4. Color logic
    White = social polish/conformity (guests). Black tutus = friction and shadow around Griffin’s confession. The film’s palette (bold, simple blocks) is used like Beecroft uses bodies: to stage a living tableau where the idea reads instantly.

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  1. “Statues” conversation
    By the fire, she says statues are phoenixes turned to stone — creativity frozen into icon/commodity. That’s the film’s anxiety: become a monument and lose your life force; stay blazing and you can’t be owned.

  2. The ending (sex → separation → sprint)
    They make love to “Lost in the World,” he wakes alone, and sprints after her as she ascends. Desire can’t override difference; the artist/muse chooses transformation over domesticity. It leaves Griffin (and Ye) forever chasing the thing he can’t quite hold.

How it reframes the song

“Runaway” as a performance is half-apology, half-self-indictment. Staging it inside that dinner — with literal toasts as the diners raise glasses — turns the hook into ceremony: a ritualized confession in front of the very class that’s judging him. The ballerinas turn his “ugly” into choreographed beauty, which is the Ye move in a sentence.

jolly flume
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Listening to drake is soul healing

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“Let me tell you bout my brudda doe” 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

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Man

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Fml

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When i say hi in chat everyone just fucks off

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I might have to block some ppl later…

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Found out some shit i wish i didnt

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Heart is heavy and i wanna throw up after finding it out

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Fuck

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I kinda wanna throw up

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If you don fw me no more then hu my dms and lmk

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Then fuck off

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Dude im having an actual blast with logan

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We have been just yapping about fucking NOTHING for almost an hour straight

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Im actually smiling

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Maybe this night isnt so bad after all

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Im actually honored to be able to call him my friend

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There was nothing like yapping with friends hours into the night. I sure miss those days..

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ITS THE DELUXE EDITION TOO SO IT CAME WITH ALL THE COVER ARTWORK THAT I CAN CHANGE ON THE VINYL COVER

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My internet is back

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Yay

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Ig

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Idk i might try focusing on myself

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Especially with recovery

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Because im gonna be back in the gym

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After im out of this sling

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Idk

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After im out of this sling I’ll definitely be less active

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Maybe ill just turn into an emotionless bastard

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Dear diary,
This is my outfit today

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Its comfy

white crystal
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Seriously took one look and almost said wow Boden is pregnant. But it's ur shoulder sling 😭

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Emi needa pay child support

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Oops

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Man ill just have school tomorrow

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The vinyl listening experience for “devil in a new dress” is unreal

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Future is a top 5 rapper of all time

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Tbh

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I put him over drake

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And kendrick

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Kendrick doesnt even make my top 5

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Neither does drake

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1-Kanye West
2-Jay-Z
3-nas
4-future
5-freddie gibbs

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I feel that a lot of ppl would actually agree with this too

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From a universal standing

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I feel this is correct

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Or close to being correct

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To be honest tho

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I could put drake at 5

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If you refuse to see drake’s greatest you dont deserve to be in any serious music convo ever again

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EVERYONE READING THIS: I WILL NOW MAINLY UPDATE EVERYTHING IN MY VENTING JOURNAL

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Ive made my decision

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sigh

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i was gonna try to disappear

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But i just couldnt

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And when i come back im scolded

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Man

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Fuck all y’all

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sorry.

jolly flume
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—HOE—
HEAVEN
ON
EARTH

MIXTAPE PRODUCED BY YOURS TRULY

—1.20.25—

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Hm

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Been a while

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its wraps bro

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been a while

white crystal
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I never expected to see you again

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how are things

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