Theory for Meaning of Chromakopia

Only on my second listen of the album, but I wanted to share a theory that I'm not seeing anywhere online.

This is an album with a theme of consequences through contrasting dual perspectives and a lot of double meanings. It follows as a sequel both to Igor and CMIYGL. It's notable that the green color theme is opposite to Igor's pink, and the content of the album continues a lot of the rapping style talking about wealth as a continuation of CMIYGL. The consequence of Igor is actually finally getting the guy or woman at the end of the day, and the consequence of CMIYGL is yeah you have wealth, but that comes with all the difficulties of dealing with the pain. "Noid" shows both his paranoia of having gotten someone pregnant in the past and his current paranoia of dealing with the fame.

Now the MEAT of the symbolism in this album is the dual perspectives it takes, mainly Tyler getting to know himself more through the perspectives of him and a woman he had a pregnancy scare with and it's parallels between his father and his mother. It's interesting that the repeated snippets of his mom talking to him serve as his conscience in walking through the uncertainties and guilt through the pregnancy scare. I have to listen to it some more, but it sounds like he's alternating between these male and female perspectives (as exhibited by him repeatedly saying "I'm that ni*** and that bitch" in a couple songs on the record).

On the more iffy side, I think this album is split into halves, with the first half dealing mostly with the story of a love story with a woman that leads up to a pregnancy scare (possibly leading to an abortion and his guilt regarding this ending with "I killed you"). And the second half being between the parallels between this decision and what his father decided with contrasts between dealing with an abortion vs dealing with a child who was born (which here, is Tyler). It's interesting how he's mentioned yesterday that this album has a lot to do with things his mother has always told him that only made more sense as he got older, and one can imagine he's had deep conversations about his father with her before which would've likely been on his mind if he found himself in similar shoes as his in his own future.

After the first half of the album, "Judge Judy" serves as a transition point, with the "judge" being his mental conscious and "Judy" being his visceral temptations. And this ultimately goes into (more vaguely) the perspective of his father, starting out with "Sticky", with a double meaning between sticky sperm (visceral) leading to a sticky situation (conscious), showing a stark difference between how him and his father dealt with the situation. The following 2 songs follow him growing up and struggling with his sexuality (as the chorus of "Take Your Mask Off" is a woman's voice supporting him through this, saying "I hope you find yourself", and this may be both the voice of his mother as he was young and possibly also the woman from the beginning of the album as he was older). The double meaning is that "Take Your Mask Off" is also a line from Igor's "Running Out of Time", which talks about the sexuality of another man (now himself) and transitions us to the next song. That song "tomorrow" brings us to the present day, when he's accepted himself, but now dealing with the consequences of time, such as age, while also possibly coping with the previous decision to have had an abortion with that previous woman and feeling guilty for what they did now that his mom is aging and wanting grandkids. "Thought I Was Dead", I believe is a song directed at his father, to contrast his own perspectives of guilt in "I Killed You", which while the latter is Tyler's guilt of his partner possibly having had an abortion and "killing" the child, in the latter, he speaks directly to the father that "killed" him by negligence in the former. In this song, he also boldly claims his own existence with the confidence we saw on CMIYGL. Yet, as much as he tries to differentiate himself from his father and his father's choices, he comes back to inevitably being reminded by his mother that he's "Like Him" on the next track. He rises above these difficulties (parallels between him and his father, race, fame, and his sexuality) on "Balloon" (kind of like "Rise!" on CMIYGL), while acknowledging he still has a lot of room to go (as exemplified by the "don't stop" chorus, and making statements like "you can be a millionaire and still be a dumbass"). The final track "I Hope You Find Your Way Home" is almost an apotheosis of Tyler, reminiscing about all the events discussed in the albums, and again stating "I'm that ni*** and that bitch", almost as a way of integrating all these previously opposing views from the album into his own personality and who he has become with help from his mother raising him, and now accepting these perspectives as he "finds his way home" (meaning trusting the process of time to his own inevitable death or "home", but also providing closure to "CMIYGL", now admitting that he has been lost in life but accepts the unknown to come as he finds his own way home).

All in all, I think there's SO MUCH more symbolism than I've mentioned here. Some are more obvious, like him repeatedly alluding to themes of race, his commitment issues with monogamy, and allusions between his bisexuality and gendered roles/perspectives. But I feel like a lot of these more obvious themes can be easier distractions from a more subtle cohesive narrative, like the song "I Killed You" can simply be discussed as only being about race, while using themes of hair to discuss this, but a huge motivation to writing this out was due to the possible double-meaning of that song with abortions and its contrast with the alternative consequence of allowing the child to be born but neglecting it as a result, as in "Thought I Was Dead", Tyler boldly exclaims his own existence, as he's the embodiment of the second option. Each song throughout the album adds additional layers to him evaluating the consequences if they would either "abort vs don't abort", while also alluding to the consequences of the content of the stories of both of his last albums.

Anyways, I could be COMPLETELY wrong with all of this, as they're just my thoughts on a second listen. Who knows, maybe further listens will make me feel like taking all this back, or finding completely different themes. I might consider adding any further thoughts on the comment section as I listen to it more.

But most importantly, I'm curious what you all think!