actually his best

hmm are you saying the songs that subconciously come to my mind when I think about love are due to the relationships I've either had or the way I perceived love in my life damn these the first three songs that came to mind

probably my favourite frank song

i'd do anything for you (in the dark!)

Come to learn that this song is the pinnacle of what Blonde is meant to be. What a masterpiece of a song. Just a rollercoaster ride from start to finish. Frankie the GOAT

What would you recommend I do?

This sounds so dumb, but I remember going through a breakup my junior year of HS when this dropped. At the same time I felt so hopeful for my future, yet so lost and alone. There’s not many albums like Blonde anymore. Idk how to explain it, but I could paste my narrative at the time to the storyline of the album and though it was a mournful coping method at the time, listening back to it feels like entering a time capsule that I’m incredibly fond of. It feels like I’m 16 and can put myself back to where I was when this came out. My aspirations, worries, and emotions all come back every time I do a full listen.

Okay I jumped on my laptop for this.

So, these three songs out of the incredible number songs about love you've heard.

For me I think the easiest way to define this and to define why music resonates to us is authenticity.

Ever think why Drake and Taylor Swift, two of the most successful artists for the last decade (probably ever) manage to keep a legion of fans when their music is predominantly about being vulnerable and relationships. When you really think about it, they have more money than sense and have no reason for their music still be that wistful.

It's because for their legion of fans still see them as authentic. After the fame the fortune, Drake still remains that dweeb that can't find love that he craves. Life somewhat simulates art in this case with him having a child out of wedlock to someone whose not his partner but I digress.

The hardest thing for any artist is to get authenticity. In rap it's called being "real". In punk it was being a rebel.

It's just different ways of saying the same thing.

Flawed crystals hang from your ears

I couldn’t gauge your fears

I can’t relate to my peers

ID RATHER LIVE OUUUUTSIDE

man...

the things i would do to play this 4 the first time again

On the live performance in Munich he said "I'd rather try hell"
And 4 years later he says "I've tried hell"

Tripped to a lot of songs off this album a lot.
This one time me and my girl were on acid and Pink + White was crazy. The last part of the song we both felt so weird, in a good way All the ad libs and background sounds in the song were so much more apparent than usual.

Remember life, remember how it was
Climb trees, Michael Jackson, it all ends here
Say what up to Matthew, to Shoob
Say what up to Danny
Say what up to life immortality
Bending up my Nikes
Running out the melpomene, nicotine
Stealing granny cigs (Take it easy)
Gimme something sweet
B****, I might like immortality
This is life, life immortality

Wild. I listen to it atleast 5 times a month in full

it's that incredible, but i've been stuck in the 70's and early 80's, as of late.

Okay lets go. Some of it I remembered, some of it I added.

I'll tag posters who I think could be interested in this. @op @new @Goo @MrIndigo96 @AmoryBlain

How far is a light year

Since Blonde was released almost 5 years ago, sentiment on the internet is either this is the greatest thing since sliced bread or this album is the epitome of overhyped pretentious music.

So it's fitting Frank ends his album with a deliberately vague and open ending one liner but we'll revisit that.

Channel Orange was beautifully produced with some great songs such as Pyramids and Pink Matter, There was so much more of Frank to get to know and at that stage he was the rising indie darling with features on a Kanye and Jay album with only real rival in Abel.

After Nostalgia Ultra displayed Frank Ocean's huge potential, Channel Orange really displayed the man's talents. The album offers a range of styles across its 17 tracks. From the smooth balladry of "Thinkin About You" to the sprawling 10 minute epic "Pyramids". In direct contrast to much of the alternative R&B that is so popular in those days, the album is not overly maudlin or minimalistic, with songs like "Sweet Life" and "Monks" being much more exuberant and upbeat than your average Weeknd or JMSN. This album was getting to know Frank's thoughts about life, him deeply intimate moments of coming out.

On Blonde, it's almost voyeuristic how intimate we get with Frank. Gone is playfulness that was on Super Rich Kids, gone is idealism on Sweet Life, gone is the hope that permeates through Forrest Gump.

The easiest way to to highlight this is is the opus on the album Futura Free. Not the most heralded at all, but it's stream of consciousness is the easiest way to highlight not only the growth of Frank but it ties in the themes of Frank's career of duality.

Duality is everything to Frank. I got two albums, I got two albums his sexuality, on Blonded radio releasing two versions of each song etc.

Dualities of the artist finishing his heavily anticipated album on such an unconventional songs

The actual writing of the songs of not cutting b****es no more but could cut your b**** though

The sparse production such as dropping the drum when he sings about having a threesome (dualities again, threesome being of one girl and one boy)

It's a record you have to listen to more than you'd like for it to get under your skin. Many of the lyrics seem deliberately relatable. Maybe in a year there will be other cuts from the album which will become favourites.

Many of the new songs have two or three competing narratives — different points of view participating in the same story. “That was my version of collage or bricolage,” he said. “How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves, we know the story, we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.”

To bring it back to how far is a lightyear.

Is it pretentiousness that has people still pouring through his work to find deeper meaning in art on such a straightforward concept? Or is it thought provoking that makes us think of something unimaginable to a human and think what we could have achieved and what we can do. In Frank's case, what he has achieved in career and what he can do.

I suppose to us the possibilities are endless, and for the time that's good enough

feel u. i been on a 90s kick. Lots of elliot smith, afx, slowcore s***, and of course the villain.

Cant go a month without listening to blonde tho cant believe we really witnessed such an album drop in our generation at such a perfect time.

see what you did there on your last line.
Also I think furthering your point of duality is the fact that the title is spelled two different ways on streaming. its titled "Blonde" when you search for it. but the cover clearly says "blond". Blond without the e I believe is the masculine version and with the e is feminine. so this then alludes to his bi-sexual orientation and him living a double life.
@Lightsxo

hmm I see

My KTT1 post was longer and better but definitely there’s so many more themes of duality.

Nights for example. Two parts to the song. The song is about how his nights can be different

Fantastic album to deconstruct and if you’re not into that fantastic to listen too

i've said it before, but when it dropped i felt deep inside that we were witnessing such important event in the history of music. i know it sounds corny, but i'm sure everybody that night felt the same.

yeah also remember the track solo he referred to multiple different ways of being solo (alone) or "so low" (down)

Solo had two different versions as well