Being a child of divorce at Lollapalooza

This year, Tyler, the Creator's performance at Lollapalooza unfolded just as predicted—
the first half opened with tracks from his latest album, Don’t Tap the Glass.
A wash of red spread across the stage,
echoing the eerie, furious energy of Goblin back in 2011.

There was structure, tension, release—then a return to the masked Chromakopia.
Green lights flickered—
and under the mask, who are you performing as this time?
Among all the roles you play, just survive this one:
I’ma gonna make it out, promise I’ma gonna make it out.

But where did the story begin?
The future is Odd, the past is Odd Future.

In the middle of the set, Tyler skipped the in-between narratives
and leapt straight back to his origin—Goblin.
Frank Ocean’s feature on She stood in stark contrast to Tyler’s rage and shouting—
Frank calmly narrated a boy’s coming-of-age story.
Because they grew up together… in Odd Future.

But trains always diverge.
Tyler let us know—Frank’s carriage had long since departed.
He shouted: Odd Future is over.

No time to breathe—
IFHY crashed in.
Tears in his eyes, Tyler sang:
"I love you, I fucking hate you."
A sharp inhale—

From confusion and suspicion in the beginning,
to this moment where Tyler reveals another side:
The feelings were real. When was the sincerity ever fake?

As the screen dimmed, he sang the last line:
"I fucking hate you."

This performance channeled something private, mysterious—
not the mindset he had when writing those songs,
but the understanding of intimacy from a 35-year-old Tyler.

Growing up and creating art with Frank Ocean—
wasn’t that, too, a form of intimacy?

But—
hate lasts longer than love.
Hate reaches the ends of the earth—
and doesn’t end.