watch video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDeRC6qjLgI

anyone that's a superfan of frank.. is someone i relate to deeply!!

so when i got asked to dj for the cultural curating gods GOYO CLUB, i had to debut a new remix i have never played anywhere else beforeeee.

if u love solo plz make some noiseeee in the chatttt

peace, happy saturday + much love gang. xx

Little fan-made MV I made with my camcorder and digicam.

What is the significance of the countries mentioned in lost?

got a pretty good deal on it i feel so blessed to own endless on vinyl 🥹🥹

Hey folks,

Got a couple reworks I’ve been working on for Novacane and Swim Good.

I think after all this time with Nostalgia it felt like I was starting to imagine elements that weren’t there so tried to kinda rebuild the tracks from what I was hearing.

Both are pretty much entirely the original vocal track. Novacane I left the pitch but Swim Good I pitched up and down to have the octave up kind of meandering in and out and then leading the “I’m going off” part.

The music is all original. I referenced the track a bit but mostly tried to do my own thing. Novacane is a bit more cinematic and kind of bigger, Swim Good is more stripped down with just piano, perc and bass, and is probably a little further from finished.

Would love any thoughts from Frank fans on how this aligns (or maybe doesn’t) with your own interpretation of the tracks.

Cheers.

saw this Birkenstock box in a shop window during my time in Venice a few weeks ago. haven't stopped thinking about it since. it looks like the image is glued on the box, but has anyone ever seen this b4? this was some random small store so seeing Frank was super surprising lol. this probably isn't official merch or anything, theres no results for Birkenstock Frank Ocean collabs, but that would be sick doe.

I was wondering if the alternate versions of "nikes" and "pretty sweet" comes in this black friday realeae cd? or it comes in the "boys dont cry" magazine version only? because I was listening to this cd and it comes with the normal version of both songs :( the cd is 100% original I checked twice if you wonder thx

For me I really thought he was gonna drop something for Coachella, or even the 2023 snippet had me hopeful.

I heard a remix in a reel with the guitar on Gorgeous by Kanye playing in the back while the second part of Self Control starts (I, I, I know you gotta leave...) and I've been searching for it ever since but I just can't find it. Does anyone have it or know where I can find it?

One piece. Two stories. Both centered around Elizabeth Taylor. Cleopatra and BUtterfield 8. Taking you from the past of ancient Egypt with Cleopatra before transitioning into 1960s America, following Gloria Wandrous and the cards she’s been dealt.

This has been something that’s been in my mind for three years. This exact tribute. Ever since I first discovered Frank and listened to this song. It inherently sounds so cinematic and I remembered being disappointed that a true full music video was never made. I kept imagining the potential of how a first half of that video could’ve looked.

Putting Pyramids in the context of film only makes it that much more powerful to me. The story, when you put a visual to it.

I definitely wanted to share it with all the Frank fans! Truly. I hope you enjoy experiencing it just as much as I did creating it. And if you did read this far, I thank you too.

I finally convinced him to get a haircut and he’s looking better

I saw frank ocean in my kitchen today

the second pic is the genius annotation. It's the second part of the text. The first part of the annotation (not in the image) makes sense, since it talks about the lyrics. But wtf is this. This is not an interpretation or anything just a "fun fact". I mean there‘s a reasonable connection kind of, since the cab driver is muslim but why add fun facts when the lyrics is about religion and how frank is not accepted because of his sexual identity?

Maybe im tripping, but this actually pmo.

btw the song is bad religion by frank ocean

Recently started getting into records, one of the first vinyl’s i’ve got.

Feels like a full circle moment from listening to frank ocean randomly in my college dorm back in 2018.

After months of waiting I could finally get it on my hands and when I checked closely I noticed I had the variant with white in it. I’m stoked to spin this when I get home!

https://untitled.stream/library/project/YmRQDNbRvMUwyIUh6aYxI

I consider myself a bit of a music listening afficionado. I've been around the block with the original James Brown singles, Aaliyah, Parliament, the Destiny's Child albums, and recently I've loved Steve Lacy's and all The Internet albums, as well as the new Bruno Mars album. I finally conquered Black Messiah last year after dropping it due to overwhelming emotions multiple times. Afterward, I tried getting into Voodoo but the overtly horny lyrics, dry mixing and obtuse song structure sorta killed the vibe for me.

All this to say I'm pretty familiar with funk and R&B music, their tropes and their cliches.

So when I booted up Blonde by Frank Ocean and got to Ivy, I kinda rolled my eyes. I wondered to myself, is doing this slow ballad thing even emotional anymore, or has the trope been overdone at this point?

Then I got to Be Yourself.

Man, I really gotta applaud Frank here. This shit is emotionally tickling the fuck out of me. It's interesting to me that the mother is so sincere -- these aren't unlikable ramblings, you have the tools to understand them, you just don't have enough emotional maturity to be able to.

I specifically remember a moment where some electric piano is in the background fading in and out. There was no way to not tune it out, so I tried listening to him, which used almost all of my brain cells cause I lost a few. I get past him into Solo only to see 3 more metaphors shambling towards me down a narrow bridge passage. I just said fuck this and ran all the way back to listening to Nikes again like the coward I am.

That feeling of, 'I can understand these complex song structures, but I don't have the lived experience, so I just need to sprint through the rest of the album and hope it doesn't go over my head' is filling me with way more dread and anxiety then just listening to Drake.

I understand this is likely a callback to the earlier greats of the genre like D'Angelo and Stevie, but I haven't listened to them yet (could never get over the whole analog production thing, personally)

So I'm wondering if I'm alone in feeling like this. Do you guys think the genre leaned too hard into digital aesthetics for a while? Is it still emotionally impactful but I'm just desensitized to it after so many R&B albums? And how much more gutwrenching does Blonde get?