Frank Ocean - Blonde (Discussion Thread)

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how do you blackball an indie artist? You can’t be serious.

Shopping an album means you are trying to get support from majors which proves my point

10 songs is a lot of music?

You realize artists like Bjork headlined Coachella. Doing performances has nothing to the major label network.

Lauryn Hill still does performances and she’s blackballed.

that’s dudes career trajectory. he was supposed to be The Weeknd status

Franks career trajectory was always that of an acclaimed artist. Blonde went platinum. Frank is headlining Coachella next year, that was announced a year in advance. You can’t blackball an indie artist that doesn’t rely on billboard for success.

 

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That’s why all his songs post Blonde been flopping right. Blonde went platinum because of hype.

You keep mentioning Coachella like that means anything. He’s a hipster god. That’s Coachellas demo.

Dude is blackballed. He is not indie by choice

Lol how is he not indie by choice when he finesse def jam and left them ? You a hater.

Exactly how is Frank blackballed? He’s never been an artist who charts tremendously well, but his album are always critically and commercially acclaimed.

An album was dropping in 2020, then Brother died.

 

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Stans are annoying any kind of criticism and they just go into defense mode. They don’t even go this hard for their own family members lol

Baselessly saying someone is blackballed is criticism? Ole chatty Patty ass nikka

Drake Sports $1.9 Million USD Necklace From Frank Ocean’s Luxury Brand Homer

Yea, he blackballed

 

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So because Drake buys a necklace that means…never mind just looked at your username you got me troll. Have a good one

So explain how he blackball then?

Yes, the industries biggest start rocking a $2M dollar chain from a blackballed artist you sound dumb

 

[Sad Bunny]

I still listen to this album every day

 

[Blown Moon]

I heard Seigfried and I really fukk with it. The only thing I heard before that off this album was Nikes which still gets burn. I'm going to give this album a spin off the strength of these two songs. I hope it's not super “prideful” but I'm desensitized enough at this point that I can sift through the undesirables of the album and recover the gold.

I should've given this a spin earlier considering one of the best songs ever Pyramids came from this dude, not to mention slaps on Channel Orange and Nostalgia Ultra. I have high hopes.

Spoiler: Old

Not for nothing but 2012 living in Hollywood with Nostalgia Ultra and The Yellow Album on repeat, whipping the 2011 charger and occasionally the 2010 G wagon when the homie came through on the finesse was the greatest time of my adult youth. I'm just an old worker now.

 

[T.he I.nformant]

This is a big classic!

 

[Sauce Dab]

I still don’t know how Frank made some of these songs to this day. It’s hard for me to wrap my head around it

 

[feelosofer]

People caught up to this album finally

 

[T.he I.nformant]

People caught up to this album finally

It’s incredible

Originally, I thought it was good but definitely not better than Channel Orange…now it’s neck or neck if not just better on some days

 

[feelosofer]

It’s incredible

Originally, I thought it was good but definitely not better than Channel Orange…now it’s neck or neck if not just better on some days

It's funny because it was the same way with Channel Orange a lot of people thought it was offbeat and strange the with a few spins and some perspective people were like this shyt fire.l

 

[Osmosis]

NU, CO, Blonde are three of my favorite projects of all time. This dude is a generational artist.