Thoughts on Frank Ocean?

very good

>>73024723
Need more opinions.

>>73024696
poor mans dean blunt

Blond is top 3 albums of the decade

>>73024696
gay man gay music

>>73024696
Would fuck

>>73024696
Needs to stop cancelling the few fucking shows he had planned

>>73024977
why does he keep cancelling?

>>73024994
doesn't . want to deal with his nu-male fanbase

>>73024880
this

>>73024880
blunt mans poor dean.

Blonde > Co

>>73024696
GOAT. I love him. Like love him so much it's on the bordeline of being homosexual, but not quitw. His verse on RAF is sick. That "sleep with the teddy" part is too sick.

>>73026475
Co > Blonde

>>73024880
>>73025202
if you think Blunt is more talented than Frank you're just being delusional for the hipster cred. Nothing against Blunt, his music is very good, bu he doesn't have a single album as good as Blond. Frank's songwriting, lyrics, and voice are all way better than Blunt's

very good

very nice
super rich kids is a great song

>>73026506
literally the only good verse on that song

>>73024696

tumblrcore version of the weeknd

>>73025127
production shit. apparently he's already fixed it for the next festival and will perform there.

>>73030553
haha

is this nigga really gay tho?

i would fake my sexual orientation for an exponential fanbase and a 9.5 bnm

>>73031104
all an act. focus groups showed interest in a gay male R&B artist so execs pitched the idea to frank and he ran with it. he even exclusively fucks men now to fully commit to the role.

>>73031104

>you'd play gay for some tumblr groupies and a pitchfork score

sus

I don't really get Frank. Good voice, but Blond(e) was fucking dull. Pyramids and Thinkin Bout You are the only things he's ever done I've actually liked.

>>73031104
bi
and its not even that big of a thing, Thinkin Bout You was based on his experience with a dude

>>73031525
If you liked those songs and not Blonde then you're probably not listening to him for the same reason most of us are

>>73031139
really nigga?

amaaaazing
i cannot wait for whatever chanel/biking is a part of
>>73031104
bi more likely, and it's not as important to blonde as you would expect
he dosen't make it the only part of his identity
>>73031566
most of his songs the gender of the person is actually fairly ambiguous which i like

you mean Kanye's not dead yet?

>>73024904
Seems like people either love it or hate it. That album's a 9 to me. I didn't know 2010s pop music could be so good.

>>73026475
>>73026692
This will be debated for ages

>>73031104
i have heard he has sex with girls by ppl who live in LA

Blonde has evolved into one of my favourite albums. Endless is great as well, if he'd release an album like that until the end of his career i'd be completely fine with it. Also I'm sad he cancelled his performance for primavera in a few days, would havr loved seeing him.

very boring music that's only semi-decent on the first listen.

>>73034289
i don't know why though. You might have a personal preference for Channel Orange and that's cool, but it has nothing on Blonde. CO is a nice showcase of his talent for songwriting, but the songs are straightforward and simple, whereas Blonde is much more mature and artistically accomplished work.

>>73024696
I listen to Blond at least once per week.

>>73024696
blonde is a masterpiece

He's definitely gonna cancel Lovebox

I wonder who they could get to headline if he does that

At short notice it's probably gonna be someone completely shit

>>73026983
lol no frank. frank hires ppl to do all his work. fuck off

>>73024696
>all these numales praising Blonde
This board is fucking normie garbage

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This guy >>73024880 knows.

gay

Broke down crying when I heard self control for the first time

Always prefered Billy Ocean

>>73035802
this.

Blond is so much more mature song writing wise and is a much better album with beautiful production.

>>73032385
Have him ever mentioned Morrissey as an influence? Because Morrissey also is very ambiguous with his lyrics.

>>73039095
no

>>73024904
this

>>73031566
Pretty sure most of Blonde was about a guy

blonde is like the best modern thinking album

Biking (solo) is incredible and I'm liking his recent singles more than Blonde.

lime green kool aid? or blueberry+lemon lime kool aid?

>>73040885
this

>>73024880
Gay man deans blunt

God

Great
Gave me a craving for more music that sounds like blonde but i have yet to find any

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>>73042202
kek

>>73042874
the redeemer / stone island

>>73043123
Have redeemer
Should probably give it another listen

Will check out stone island. Thanks anon

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>>73042874
I reccomend LP1 by FKA Twigs

>>73040865
He mentions pussy several times through slangs - already used by Kendrick - like "nana" and "nani".

>>73024696
He's gay

>>73024880
Literally who?

I was on him in like 2011, now you niggas love him just now.

Can someone explain why they could genuinely think Dean Blunt is better than Frank, street/underground cred aside? Genuine question, I've tried with Dean Blunt and I like him fine but I just think it's not even comparable in terms of craft.

>>73030594
Like, he can't really sing at all?

>>73039042
kek

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>>73040885
>Blonde
>best modern 'thinking' album

>>73044672
how many ppl did frank hire to help make blonde? i mean compare frank oceans live shows to deans.
deans an artist using music as his platform. franks just a musician
blunts taken over so many different genre with just a stolen macbook and sampler. while with still having his own sound to any of them
examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMwsmam5X4Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyY3ZWG2XCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2udzajeoEfg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8teoKdTPLg&t=315s


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ej4j4IjYeg


This hits on something at the core of everything. I’ve always seen everything as one thing, a unified aesthetic. Although music are what I’m most known for, I’ve never cared to differentiate between anything I do. I try not to give any more or less significance to anything else. It’s all part of one thing. From the very beginning, the music were tied into the books I was writing, which were tied into the art I was making and the way that I spoke to people. I just wanted to say things from different sides. I wanted sounds and images to fall from the sky. Those songs I sang into the answering machines when I was a kid were coming from the same source as the music. I felt like answering questions [from the press] were very much tied to the artwork." Dean Blunt


after blonde it seems like he's destined to be a kanye/rihanna/beyonce-style artist where he's got a kitchen sink list of collaborators and i'm just not nuts about that shit. feel like he had enough identity as an artist to not need to go that path.
still i think i'll probably look back on him fondly years down the line as being representative of the generation. the pretentious synesthesia shit, coming out as bi, this constant smug sense of awe at his own sincerity re: relationships, dreams, marijuana, etc-- all qualities i think people around that age really engage with in a society they perceive as ironic and detached almost to the point of hostility.

DON'T SMOKE MARIJUANA.