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Frank Ocean – Facebook Story
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“Facebook Story” is a skit where real and digital life meet but cannot be distinguished from each other. French producer SebastiAn recalls how his relationship fell apart over
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Frank Ocean – Close to You
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“Close To You” is a cover of Stevie Wonder’s cover of “Close To You” by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. You can read more about Stevie’s cover here.
This brief track follows the “
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A Track By Track Analysis Of Every Song On Frank Ocean’s ‘Blonde’
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The Genius community wrote bios for every song, breaking down themes of love, drugs, and depression.
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Frank Ocean – White Ferrari
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The heartbreaking “White Ferrari” features great emotional depth as the track speaks volumes about love and permanence.
In December 2015, Canadian DJ and producer A-Trak started
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What Does Frank Ocean’s “I Got Two Versions” Line Mean?
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Unpacking the multiple meanings of this “Nikes” lyric.
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Buddy Ross – Running Around
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“Running Around” is a song by Buddy Ross, a keyboardist who has worked with many popular artists including Frank Ocean. The song was prominently featured in many of the skits
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Genius Traducciones al Español – Frank Ocean - Facebook Story (Traducción al Español)
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[Letra de "Frank Ocean - Facebook Story (Traducción al Español)"] / [Sketch: SebastiAn] / No, solo decía que… salía con esta, con esta chica / Estuvimos juntos por tres años / Y
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Frank Ocean – Pink + White
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Produced by Pharrell Williams and featuring uncredited backing vocals from Beyoncé, “Pink + White” details Frank’s memories of his youth and someone close to him who passed away
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Frank Ocean – Ivy
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On “Ivy,” Frank reflects on his mistakes and explores a failed relationship. With Frank’s vocals laid over melancholic production, “Ivy” is a heart-breaker of a song that could be
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Frank Ocean – Solo
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On “Solo,” Frank touches on various aspects of being alone, such as self-love or waiting for a call from your lover. It’s not entirely clear if this song is specifically about
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Frank Ocean – Nikes
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“Nikes” is a critique of the trappings of materialistic hedonism, with a frequent mention of Nike shoes, shiny gold and glitter, and fantasies of pleasure. The video version of
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Frank Ocean – Nights
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“Nights” tells the story of Ocean’s previous relationship, detailing the highs and lows they both faced while dating. It also touches upon the events Frank faced while living in
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Frank Ocean – Godspeed
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On “Godspeed,” the penultimate track from Blonde, Frank describes him leaving a lover, but doing so in a respectful way. The title is an exclamation used to give good fortune to
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Frank Ocean – Futura Free
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“Futura Free” is divided into two sections broken by a silent interlude.
The first finds Frank reflecting on his life and accomplishments thus far in a stream of consciousness
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Frank Ocean – Self Control
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“Self Control” is a slow ballad which features Frank describing a relationship that is slowly falling apart. Throughout the song, Frank hints the reason their relationship fell
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Frank Ocean – Seigfried
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“Seigfried,” the fifteenth track on Frank Ocean’s Blonde, might be called a metaphysical break-up song. Based on the mention of “a speckled face”, the song may be about male model
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Frank Ocean – Good Guy
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“Good Guy” serves as an interlude and touches on the idea of loneliness and emptiness experienced from fruitless encounters.
The track outlines a quick story of Frank going out on
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Frank Ocean – Skyline To
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This track expels random thoughts Frank is having from sex to drugs, and acts as a sort of interlude between tracks, slightly altering the mood of the album in the transition
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Frank Ocean – Be Yourself
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“Be Yourself” is a voice message from Rosie Watson, the mother of one of Frank’s childhood friends.
When Blonde was released, many fans assumed the voicemail was left by Frank’s
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There’s An Important Clue At The Exact Middle Point of Frank Ocean’s “Blonde”
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The 30-minute mark during “Nights” might explain a part of Frank’s mystery.
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Frank Ocean – Solo (Reprise)
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An interlude reprising the themes from the earlier track of the same name, performed by the legendary and elusive André 3000 of OutKast. Frank and André have worked together before
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Article Pitch: Things We Still Don't Understand About Frank Ocean's 'Blonde'
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Y'all may remember in March we ran the 7 Lyrics We Still Don’t Totally Understand From To Pimp A Butterfly to celebrate the first anniversary of Kendrick’s TPAB.
Next week is 10/20, aka two months since Frank Ocean dropped Blonde. @youngjfk and I are looking at running a similar piece to the Kendrick post and wanted to see which lyrics/concepts/themes people were still scratching their heads over.
My big one I don’t still don’t get is why on “Be Yourself”, Rosie Watson says “This is mom” when she’s not Frank’s mom. Is she some kind of mother figure in his life? Is this a voicemail left to Rosie’s son that Frank repurposed for the album? It’s been bugging me ever since the album dropped!
Are there any other head scratchers out there?
Blonde scholars: @MarriedToTheGame, @ZENiths, @s_connoisseur, @JayKauz, @BasedGator, @jeffreylsoffer, @meglewis, @Theonlydjorkaeff, @cke, @rozmanpavel, @Incilin, @epaulettes, @Barrk, @Nachosbob
@genius-editorial-board @pop-genius @r-and-b-genius
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Frank Ocean – Pretty Sweet
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“Pretty Sweet” marks one of the bolder moments on Frank Ocean’s sophomore album Blonde, with an initially unsettling change of pace where Frank is singing wildly over a chaotic
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Frank Ocean – Rushes
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“Rushes” is the 16th song on Frank Ocean’s 2016 visual album, Endless. Jazmine Sullivan produces vocals as Ocean sings about the ups and downs that are apparent in a romantic
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Kanye West (Ft. Frank Ocean) – Frank's Track
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This song was formerly the outro of “Wolves”—Kanye made it a standalone song on March 15, 2016. Just hours before the change made its way onto TIDAL, Kanye described The Life of
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