Frank Ocean Frank Ocean: "it came to me in a dream"

Started by Juan Pablo, Oct 23, 2017, in Music Add to Reading List

  1. Juan Pablo
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    Over the course of a six-year solo career, Frank Ocean has initiated compelling conversations around creativity, sexuality and identity. Through two standalone long-players – Nostalgia, Ultra and Channel Orange – and 2016's exceptional double-header of Blonde and Endless, Frank has openly excavated his journey from boy to man with increasingly peerless musical depth, charting the shift from precociousness to perception. His lyrical life is seasoned by his emotional honesty, the wavelength of his artistry tuned at a precise frequency of personal transparency. It's this that has made him the most compelling of musical stars. A polymath as much as a visionary, Frank expanded the idea of Blonde to include a visual counterpart, Endless, and the highly covetable magazine Boys Don't Cry. In 2017, Frank spent the summer on tour, enthralling audiences around Europe and the US with a paradoxically intimate festival show. For i-D, Frank has created a visual document that makes imaginative sense of his magical summer festival season. The 32-page s---t is filled with an effusive warmth and redolent energy particular to both Frank and LA, where he shot the series. Paying homage to the team who help realise his creative dreams, these pages are about creativity and collaboration and the power of saying yes.

    "You can answer a lot of questions with 'Yes.' But you can answer many more with 'No.' No is run of the mill. Yes is a gem. Whenever I feel alone I watch live television, something about it being okay on their end makes it okay on mine. Onstage one in-ear is my mic feed and the other one is a Tim Ferriss podcast. I go long periods without talking but I raise my voice when the people on the phone are in loud places. I've never given my fans nicknames because the ones I think of are embarrassing. I'm world famous. I had peace in my twenties. Big Pharrell praying hands those weren't mutually exclusive. If you want to make your 30s sound appealing just mention 'sexual prime.' Re: the photos... as Karl Lagerfeld would say they 'came to me in a dream.' Summer two thousand and seventeen. We leaned into it. Bananaberry flavored candies at the bottom of the cup. I'll never know why or what's with campouts for Szechuan sauce at McDonalds. But I'm way into it. Issa Dreamworld. If you liked two thousand and seventeen then you'll love two thousand and eighteen."

    – Frank Ocean

    https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/mb3jqv/exclusive-frank-ocean-photographs-essay
     
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    Sqrt Sqrt Basketball Shorts with the Gonzales Park Odor

    Oct 23, 2017
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    omfg
     
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  5. Juan Pablo
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    "If you liked 2017 then you'll love 2018." :rickross:
    Album number 5, 2018. :banderas:
     
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    d--- im really searchin for a female version of frank, so far im stuck with solange, what do i do?
     
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    Oct 23, 2017
    Check out Sabrina Claudio.
     
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    Have you tried Lil' Debbie?
     
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    i did but it just doesn't hit me
     
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    no
     
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    Thought he way gay?
     
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    There is no female version of Frank.

    In saying that check out Jessie Ware or Sade. Beautiful voices.
     
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    he's finally gonna finish building the rest of the house to connect that staircase to
     
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    new album? sorry i didn't understand
     
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    bet frank and thug saved my life.

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    Tbh I see the resemblance:
     
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