8 Years Later: Blonde by Frank Ocean

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  • Aug 21, 2024
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    Childhood

    There hasn't been album that has dropped since this that has been better... right?

    Nope

  • Aug 21, 2024
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    Childhood

    There hasn't been album that has dropped since this that has been better... right?

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    lacriminal

    Anyway I wrote an essay on Seigfried it's a very important song to me

    Is there anywhere the essay can be read or is private?

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    voriox

    pause jk lol. had a feeling you liked that one better. i for one rarely revisit blonde, im way more partial to endless but channel orange to me is his most significant work and it’s a toss up between those two for my favorites

    it is curious why bro doesn’t really put out music anymore though. i do feel like it’s plausible/easiest to say he just wants to make that jewelry money but he kinda doesn’t seem to do much with homer either. i feel like it’s probably a mixture of potentially a lot of things from depression to the current state of the music industry to him being an addict which i strongly have suspected pretty much since forever. the whole “drop some IG story snippets then post merch on the website just in time for christmas then dip” s*** screamed “im a fiend and need a reup” ngl

    i think he has laury hill syndrome

  • Aug 21, 2024
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    Vox

    Is there anywhere the essay can be read or is private?

    It's coming out later in the fall but I can send it to you!

  • Aug 21, 2024
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    Amazing album. It’s still f*** frank for not releasing anything afterwards

    But that performance is insane

  • Aug 21, 2024
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    def a top 10 maybe a top 5 album oat for me

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    LaFleur

    We really woke up on a bright summer day of August 8 years ago not knowing that we were getting a second FO album the day after he already gave us one. S*** sounds like a fever dream

    I dropped acid with a friend and we couldn't tell if it was real or just the d****

  • Aug 21, 2024
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    Mf classic

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    basically retiring off this is a boss move

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    Gay Ave Stan

    It's a one minute skit and it's actually called Good Guy. You can't even remember the names of the same-sex love songs and you want to tell me it was an important part of the album?

    I also want to point out that the song doesn't explicitly identify his date as a man, and Frank is exactly the kind of person to take a woman to a gay bar for a date

    Damn he's cooking y'all

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    Gay Ave Stan

    Comes out of the closet
    3 years of radio silence
    Then he releases an album full of songs with mysterious lyrics about nothing pandering to straight men and women instead of addressing his sexuality

    an "lgbt icon"

    Was going to avi post but noticed the South African artists in your most listened and I can't do it Why you bumping them tho, you South African??

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    ragedsycokiller

    Damn he's cooking y'all

    Yea but hes being obtuse or doesnt get the whole point of the album title or the use of genderless pronouns throughout the entire album

    Also completely omitting that he dropped chanel not long after

    Or endless, which came out before blonde

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    BlueChew Sean

    Was going to avi post but noticed the South African artists in your most listened and I can't do it Why you bumping them tho, you South African??

    Nah Australian
    Just been on a South African music tip recently

  • Aug 21, 2024
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    Botney

    i think he has laury hill syndrome

    Most likely, he did say that blonde came after and during a serious bout of writers block. Same with channel orange and NU which he called "labors of love" and in the thank you notes on his tumblr he was suprised he even finished channel orange iirc

    also hes prob the type of artist that romanticizes it and thinks inspiration is key to greatness (" i can live in the studio and wait for inspiration to hit" - paraphrasing a bar from DHL)

    i just dont think hes a really productive creative unless he feels like he gets hit with a eureka moment. Spends more time living life and experiencing rather than creating.

    And s*** if that means quality, that can be his process

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    i think he was about to release an album but around 2019 but his brother died and he hasnt found the spark since

  • Aug 21, 2024
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    which i would get i’d be very f***ed up for years if my sister passed

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    Mark Moschino

    i think he was about to release an album but around 2019 but his brother died and he hasnt found the spark since

    Yea, if im being completely honest, i was sure that he was retired until he started doing the blonded radios.

    I still think blonde is his last album. But i hold out hope nonetheless since he keeps teasing

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    voriox

    pause jk lol. had a feeling you liked that one better. i for one rarely revisit blonde, im way more partial to endless but channel orange to me is his most significant work and it’s a toss up between those two for my favorites

    it is curious why bro doesn’t really put out music anymore though. i do feel like it’s plausible/easiest to say he just wants to make that jewelry money but he kinda doesn’t seem to do much with homer either. i feel like it’s probably a mixture of potentially a lot of things from depression to the current state of the music industry to him being an addict which i strongly have suspected pretty much since forever. the whole “drop some IG story snippets then post merch on the website just in time for christmas then dip” s*** screamed “im a fiend and need a reup” ngl

    i think it’s more depression than anything else.

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    Worldpremiere_

    Yea, if im being completely honest, i was sure that he was retired until he started doing the blonded radios.

    I still think blonde is his last album. But i hold out hope nonetheless since he keeps teasing

    same actually. that picture of him standing at the site of his brothers accident looks like a man torn in half. i wouldn’t blame him. he gave us 3 classic albums some of my favorite songs ever

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    Mark Moschino

    i think it’s more depression than anything else.

    im inclined to agree with you

  • Aug 23, 2024
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    Gay Ave Stan

    Yes. If any straight artist released an R&B album that had as few references to women as Blonde does men, people would start questioning their sexuality. He was scared of offending straight people and losing their sales so he kept it to a few lines/skits and filled the rest of the album with evocative gibberish to distract them. Money is more important to him than integrity. That's why he's quit music entirely to sell $1 million dollar platinum a*** beads and scam his fans

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    LaFleur

    We really woke up on a bright summer day of August 8 years ago not knowing that we were getting a second FO album the day after he already gave us one. S*** sounds like a fever dream

    And in the finish line of which is better, Endless or Blonde, the result is a photo finish 🤘

    I got twooo versions

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    LaFleur

    We really woke up on a bright summer day of August 8 years ago not knowing that we were getting a second FO album the day after he already gave us one. S*** sounds like a fever dream

    thank god because if it was just endless... imagine the shambles

  • Aug 23, 2024
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    halleys comet

    SOME NIGHTS YOU MISS IT

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