Frank Ocean - Blonde (Discussion Thread)

[Harry B]

I don't get why people came into this expecting Channel Orange, I sure as hell didn't.

Why would an artist, an artist of Frank's caliber especially, take four years working on this album, just for it to sound like his previous material?

A great portion of coli dudes have very weak music taste when it comes to something innovative and fresh.
Nearly every album that has dropped that has been on that shyt has got hate on this site, or no response at all.

 

[CaughtInTWebb]

Siegfried.....

 

[The G.O.D II]

What does IQ have to do with who made a better album? dummy

Plenty. You like simple things. You like simple artist with lyrics like give me all of you in exchange for me






















































Break it down

 

[noble]

can one of yall hook me up

 

[Vinny Lupton]

I like Swim Good, Pyramid and shyt like that. This stuff just meanders and wanders

 

[Freddie.Cane]

Thread doesn't have enough pages. That means the album is Trash

nah but this album great

 

[Kenny WRLD]

Nikes caught me so off guard. I expected channel orange part 2.

This is legit my favorite album of all time.

 

[LezJepzin]

 

[Bmezy]

I'm really liking Solo for some reason...it's like this medatative prayer hymnal about a story about his experience with acid (after the handoff with Be Yourself where Frank's mom's warning him about the dangers of drugs).. opposing ideas; the placement of these two tracks is ironic in itself..
I'm listening to Solo and aside from the lyricism (which is pretty tight as usual)..get into the progression chords that make up the melody..it's a static structure that just builds tension throughout the entire song..you keep waiting for the melody to resolve, over and over..it never does (sort of like it's teasing you), until the last bar of the song where you FINALLY get the harmonic resolution. ..strange interpretation.It works, though...
Dope!

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

7/10

This shyt just sounds unremarkable. It SOUNDS good... So many of the songs just mesh together and theres no real direction. Just seems like low effort slush.

I say this is a fair assessment

 

[Bless't]

"Be Yourself" with his mom...

Putting down weed when it sounds like she's been up for 36 hours railing blow.

 

[volk]

Dropping baby off at home before my night shift, yeeeaaaaaaaa

 

[volk]

Tricky Stewart Talks Frank Ocean

http://www.thefader.com/2016/08/26/f...wart-interview

On spotting genius, and why the industry shouldn’t be surprised by Frank Ocean’s independence.

"At the time, with every record I was doing for Def Jam, we were on fire, whether it was Justin Bieber or Rihanna. My first artist at Def Jam was The-Dream, and he had done extremely well, withLove/Hate and Love vs. Money. So I’m thinking it’s going to be gravy bringing my next guy through. I’m thinking when I bring in my stuff, I’m going to get the love. But it was a complete uphill battle. We were getting stonewalled. The truth is, if it wasn’t for Chris Clancy and the Odd Future team embracing Frank, we may not even know who Frank is today. On the Def Jam side, I couldn’t get nobody to pay attention to him."

"At the end of the day, I think Def Jam created a monster that they couldn’t control. He just treated them how he was treated. There’s too many artists out here with that story. Luckily for Frank, he was able to turn a negative time and a negative period into something that worked for him and his family."

 

[ECA]

"Nights" is so fukking cold and I wish "Close to You" was a minute or two longer

 

[Tetris v2.0]

This album is good. I acknowledge it, and its not appropriate for every setting, but there is a lot of creative songwriting and song structure here. Also a terrific mix.

That said, this album is being painfully overrated by critics and social media. Painfully. Overrated.