911 Mr. Lonely Analyse

The Song 911 / Mr. Lonely by Tyler The Creator (feat. Frank Ocean & Steve Lacy) is quite the emotional rollercoaster. The song begins in a very upbeat tone but slowly descends to a less upbeat, snare-heavy beat. His song starts with how he urgently wants his ex-lover to call back, which Frank Ocean relates to. This slowly changes around the second half of the song where he starts talking negatively about himself, saying how he is lonely and empty without love. This song contains many literary devices such as repetition, simile, metaphor, assonance, rhyme, onomatopoeia, and allusion. Throughout the song Tyler The Creator uses repetition. We can see this in the very beginning of the song when Tyler repeats “Call me, call me, call me, uh”. This

This line refers to Buzz Lightyear from the Disney movie Toys. I believe that in this line he is referring to his great need or beyond-infinitive thirst to get his ex-lover back. A quarter-way into Tyler’s song we can see assonance in the line “I've been lookin' for a keeper, listen to the speaker if you fit description, hit me on my beeper”. We can see assonance in the repetitive “ee” sound in the words keeper, speaker, and beeper. This part refers to him trying to find someone new in his life as perhaps that may help him get over his ex-lover. At the beginning of Frank Ocean’s part, he uses onomatopoeias such as “Chirp, chirp” and we can see Tyler using this as well in “ring, ring, ring”. Frank Ocean uses this onomatopoeia to help us visualize the suburbs he talks about as he reminisces and relates to Tyler’s situation. Past the second half of the song, we can see that Tyler uses rhymes to bring up negative comments about himself. In the line “Attention seeker, public speaker” he talks about two different ways people see him. While some see him as a public speaker, others find him to be an attention