It’s a worthy follow up to ‘Channel Orange,’ although I think I do prefer the former, this release is great and cemented Ocean as one of the greats of our generation.
There so many great songs on this ‘White Ferrari,’ ‘Nights,’ ‘Self Control,’ ‘Good Guy’ amongst them. ‘Solo’ is next, a quietly lush song which also received a lot of radio in Aus.
A funny, if not heartwarming moment on the album. 'Super Rich Kids' (with Earl Sweatshirt) 'Start my day up on the roof, theres nothing like this type of view,' sings Ocean. This is obvious on tracks like Ivy, Solo, and Nights. I will say that Frank’s singing and production are great, and he’s very capable of making a good melody. I find his melodies to be a bit boring throughout many tracks. Next up is the interlude, ‘Be Yourself,’ featuring a voicemail of a mother telling her child not to consume alcohol or drugs. After listening to Blonde at least 15 times, I am confidently able to say that this project is not for me. There will be an entire 11-episode season on Blonde preceded by a six-part miniseries on Channel Orange, Ocean’s debut. On ‘Ivy’ he sings “We'll never be those kids again,” perhaps a reference to ‘Super Rich Kids’ from ‘Channel Orange.’ ‘Pink + White’ was co-written and produced by Pharrell Williams, and features the vocals of his aforementioned friend, Beyoncé. The third season of Dissect is an extravaganza of Frank Ocean deep dives. Thanks to triple j’s habit of not necessarily only supporting singles, most of the tracks are familiar to me on this album. For the first 3 minutes of the song, his vocals are very affected before finally delivering his unaffected “no filter” vocals. Only one official single was released, ‘Nikes,’ the opening track. The production takes its cues from Brian Wilson, while the vocals are comaprible to Prince at times. It’s more experimental than his debut, featuring sounds of psych pop, avante garde soul and RnB. ‘Blond’ was recorded across three cities in three famous studios Electric Lady (New York), Abbey Road Studios (London) and Henson (LA, the location of Charlie Chaplin’s old studios). Mere hours later, in the early hours of the next morning, Ocean dropped ‘Blond’ (taking a leaf out of friend, Beyoncé’s book - #81). 24 hours later, heralded by a magazine titled Boys Dont Cry long suspected to be the title of his actual album Ocean came through with Blonde, and a much healthier cut of the takings. Instead came the visual release, ‘Endless,’ which fulfilled his obligations to Def Jam. The following weekend, on Frank Oceans own terms, he brought out a visual album (Endless) which reportedly fulfilled his commitments to his label Def Jam. 3 years in the making, Ocean didn’t want to give his next record, ‘Blond’ to the label. Blonde (Magazine Version) Tracklist 1 Pretty Sweet Lyrics 345.2K 2 Mitsubishi Sony (Magazine Version) Lyrics 40.6K 3 Ivy Lyrics 2.5M 4 Pink + White Lyrics 1.8M 5 Solo Lyrics 1.4M 6 Easy Lyrics. Check out the album cover, list of contributors ( !) and tracklist below.Following the release of his ground-breaking album, ‘Channel Orange’ (#148), Frank Ocean owed label, Def Jam, one more album. Allusions to parallels between vehicular travel and other aspects of life, such as making music, were drawn, his relief in completing. Head right this way to hear ‘Blonde’ in all its glory. Boys Dont Cry, the magazine distributed at pop-up locations the day this unlike-titled album was released, featured an essay in which Frank Ocean affably reflected upon his infatuation with cars. The stores will open up today in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and London – check out the flyer below for more details.
To coincide with the release of ‘Blonde’, Frank has announced ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ pop-ups to distribute the long-rumoured (and previously leaked) full publication for free. Available exclusively on Apple Music and iTunes, the release confirms reports from Rolling Stone that the album was no longer called ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ instead, it seems that ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ is the name of Franky’s new record label (according to release information on iTunes).
But the intense lead-up spawned a plethora of Frank Ocean memes, jokes and viral tweets especially in recent months. The album finally dropped, entitled Blonde, and was met with overwhelming praise. Frank Ocean has gone from recluse to relentless in the space of a weekend on Friday, he premiered his visual album ‘Endless’ yesterday, he unveiled a surreal video for “Nikes”, and this morning, he’s gone ahead and dropped ‘Blonde’, his massively anticipated follow up to 2012’s masterful ‘Channel Orange’. The possibility of an upcoming album from Frank Ocean has had people waiting patiently on their edge of their seats for over a year now. On Friday 19 August, after months of fans waiting with bated breath and inspiring Twitter-frenzy episodes, Frank Ocean finally released Endless, his first album.