I understand the frank thing and I understand it especially about his debut

but at this point everyone in the genre is biting blonde to some extent and its crazy to see Choker not get his dues as one of the most exciting newer artists because people wrongly think he's just biting Frank

dude has a fantastic ear for melody, he self-produces all his s*** and it's fantastic. not only that but he's independent and still succeeding

can't wait to see what he's gonna do next and this site probably gonna do a 180 on him

Idk he sounds way too much like frank for me to enjoy this s***.

He’s cool

its honestly just that his voice sounds similar and they do similar pitch shifting

musically they're not really wildly close to each other

Its also the instrumentation

I feel like that's just the influence of blonde on the genre in general though
like it's still pretty different from the instrumentation frank sings over
but that stripped back acoustic kinda vibe is everywhere now

frank influence too on the nose tbh but he has some nice tracks

Yeah but he need to drop more music tho

facts
honestly thought he'd given up on music or something
hopefully he's leveled up in this time off though

Yeah can't disagree on that. Sound is everywhere now. I honestly think it would do him some justice if he sang on different instrumentals. Or that actionbronson x ghostface type story gonna follow him his whole career if he ever does get well known about. One of the laws of power is don't step into a great mans shoes. He has to make his own style. Even if his argument is, I was doing this before blonde. Someone already dominated that lane. He needs to do something different and I'm positive he will see success in it.

yea I agree
it's disappointing to me that it affects people's enjoyment of him cause he's incredibly talented but at the end of the day it is definitely holding him back

Haven't thought of this guy since 2019.
In that Omar Apollo, Dominic Fike bracket of guys who I thought would blow up but couldn't

He’s independent so I think that’s why
Plus he self produces

Makes it pretty hard to have enough output and budget to blow up but he’s got a nice core fan base

i love choker, patiently waiting on the next project.

i think the better topic is the idea that "everyone is biting blonde." how do we do away with that one.

Do you think people are or aren’t biting blonde?

he self-produces all his s*** and it's fantastic. not only that but he's independent and still succeeding

sure, some take influence from it. it was a gargantuan release. "everyone" is always a stretch, to me.

Safe wit another one.

that’s valid
I think it’s spawned a very distinctive type of music like Choker and the whole kinda indie scene
Idk how much impact it’s had on rap or anything though that’s kinda pushing it

Interesting though that Lorde and Kendrick both talked about how influential it was on their 2017 projects despite being about as different genres as you can be

Dom Fike was a lock to blow up but took the absolute worst lane smh

lmao
Russ is talented ngl
Kinda insufferable though

Choker is nice, but from the way he sings even to the way he raps is very steeped in Frank. I didn’t too much like Honeybloom like I did Peak, but his singles have been pretty nice. He’s talented for sure.

"Kinda" is underestimation lol

Plus his music is just not that interesting to compensate for that (or even for 1/4th of his personality lol)

I think he is carving out his lane on honeybloom though. Songs like Starfruit LA are not Frank at all to me

that’s every alt r&b boy out rn it’s not like you have a choice lol