Frank Ocean - Blonde (Discussion Thread)

[JackUzi]

Incredible album.

 

[Apex]

Incredible album.

Did you listen through headphones or speakers?

 

[JackUzi]

Did you listen through headphones or speakers?

in the whip, in the crib and on a laptop...for now.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Did you listen through headphones or speakers?

its status on these beats

 

[Apex]

its status on these beats

I heard beats are overrated.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

I heard beats are overrated.

Beats are probably the worst of "good" ear phones but are still 3-4 times better than the apple ones.

 

[Reflected]

Going to get this album, damn near slept the whole weekend. What happened to the songs from the video, did he also release that?

 

[Thatrogueassdiaz]

That harmony that you gave as an example sounded terrible, like a jumbled mess and proves my point even further. If you want to hear good complex harmonies, listen to the backing vocals of beyonce's old songs. Those are complex, clean, organized and on key.
I study this, so I would know.

Shutup, bytch

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

Frank Ocean has a lot of talent for Melody, and incorporating a range of Sonics, but this album suffers from the same thing a lot of popular black music album suffer from, ADHD,

All the little skits and interludes and one minute song of everyone project is annoying, because in the end you only get like 5 or 6 real full realize song from people now and pad it with a bunch of bullshyt

I plan on merge endless and blond to be one project and try to take out all the little musical pieces that are just there for decoration

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

I don't knock gay people for being gay, I don't view it as something they can change


Frank Ocean always came off as just another nerdy kid, so a lot of his stuff was cool to me even after he came out, but you can hear that he's been hanging out with rich white people on this album more so than the odd future days


Odd Future hanging out with them kind of kept him more grounded, and now he's moving more left,, I do think there's an agenda to feminize men and the death of masculinity is real

gay people get use for that separate from their orientation



But that's just my opinion

 

[mr.africa]

@Cali_livin , is this album any good???

 

[HARLEM AL]

I don't knock gay people for being gay, I don't view it as something they can change


Frank Ocean always came off as just another nerdy kid, so a lot of his stuff was cool to me even after he came out, but you can hear that he's been hanging out with rich white people on this album more so than the odd future days


Odd Future hanging out with them kind of kept him more grounded, and now he's moving more left,, I do think there's an agenda to feminize men and the death of masculinity is real

gay people get use for that separate from their orientation



But that's just my opinion

That's the truth. Epecially black men. I wish more people saw that big homie.

 

[N.J.stan]

This album is utterly fantastic. It's something you need to listen to several times in order to tap into the musical universe he's coming from, but once it clicks, it clicks fukking right.

 

[Formerly known as...]

so Pharrell did Pink and White? dont know why Pharrell aint in everyone's top 5 modern day producers.

Anyway, played this album a few times.. It has too many interlude type records.

I respect going left, but I WANT full songs. Album feels like one big interlude.

This.

Dude is so fukking dope with it. No matter who he works with!

 

[Jimmy ValenTime]

That's the truth. Epecially black men. I wish more people saw that big homie.

i think thats true too

like white gay men get to be men who happen to be gay

like this

an black gay men are portrayed as this