“All y’all outside the games, y’all push through,” one police officer on the scene said he heard Tyler shout from the stage before the crowd pulled down fences and pushed their way in. That year, a crowd mobbed the Scoot Inn, trying to get access to his day party set. When Tyler returned to Austin as a solo artist in 2014, more chaos ensued.
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Later that year, the crew was a huge draw at Fun Fun Fun Fest, where they were pelted with water bottles and at least one sex toy during a chaotic set. It was the beginning of a stratospheric rise. They bailed on their official SXSW set 12 minutes in, balking about the sound and berating the (almost entirely white male) cadre of bloggers who were making them famous. They blew the lid off that year’s event with raucous side party sets at the Fader Fort and the Scoot Inn, marked by anarchic energy and testosterone overdrive. In 2011, when he was a gleefully profane 20-year-old agitator, his crew Odd Future stormed the South by Southwest Music Festival. Tyler’s relationship with Austin is, to say the least, complicated. Weekend one at ACL Fest: Tyler, the Creator gets ACL Fest in its feelings in love fest How cool would this set have been with a live band?Īnd mostly this: When Tyler said Austin was his favorite city in Texas, was he just pandering the way artists do, or was he being serious? Would the man once known for his acrobatic stage dives be happier in a smaller venue where it would be easier to establish a real connection with the audience, or at this point in his career, does he appreciate the separation? Tyler paused to sit on the steps or in a boat on his set for conversation breaks several times. Was this due to schedule shifts (Tyler and Duran Duran were slotted in as replacements for DaBaby and Stevie Nicks), ongoing COVID-19 anxiety, niche appeal of Tyler’s lush R&B grooves and confessional rap songs, or a combination of the three? The sparse crowd was one of the smallest I’ve ever seen for an ACL Fest headliner set. Tyler, the Creator’s Sunday closing set at the Austin City Limits Music Festival left me with many things to ponder.
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