Frank is burying himself in his quest to live for himself, which brings us to the outro: ““Seigfried” is embroiled in conflict. Just like how the summer passes and the grass begins to brown, it is easy to dismiss the past and the people who occupied it. Of these obsessions, many have come and gone, shaping me into the person I identify as today. It took a listen to “Chanel” (the first of Frank’s post-This time, I started by attacking the album from its heart. But I was none of these things. Ocean expresses this fear of being forgotten, just as I feared the same. Some songs leaped out at me immediately, namely “Self-Control” and “Nights.” No music has ever made me feel the way that the outro of “Self-Control” did upon first hearing it, a blend of resignation and yearning that seems quintessentially human. While creating my art, a factor of isolation can sometimes occur in terms of finding others who can relate to my own appreciation of various forms of art and design. He never expresses disgust with himself for not wanting the American life. His stripped down performance, backed by Alex G and filmed by Spike Jonze, eradicated the border between performer and audience and transformed into an almost collaborative therapy session.

It's alright to hate me now When we both know that deep down The feeling still deep down is good All the things I didn't mean to say I didn't mean to do There were things you didn't need to say You didn't need to need to I could dream all night Dream … “Maybe I’m a fool / maybe I should move / and settle, two kids and a swimming pool / I’m not brave.” Frank is frustrated with bisexual erasure, how he is either labeled as gay or straight depending on the person he’s currently seeing, and how he desires an ordinary lifestyle but is afraid to undercut his sexuality, his most fundamental characteristic. The reason for all my failed relationships with girls is inexperience; I’m just not accustomed to how the opposite sex functions so I attempt to tread carefully out of fear.

New details surfaced with each listen: the subtle evocation of “Here, There and Everywhere” on “White Ferrari,” the recurring bittersweet key motif that appears on the spoken word sections of the album, the interpolation of Elliott Smith on “Seigfried.” “Self Control” is one of the album’s most tragic songs, as it traces Frank’s desperation in holding on to a lover who has clearly moved onto someone else. There are 17 tracks on Blonde, but we will be consolidating skits and shorter tracks with other song discussions. I invite you to imagine Frank in conversation with himself, pacing a tight circle so ignited, it burns an acute hole into the ground.

“Nights,” the Chanel-logo-shaped key that unlocks the world of I realized that in my mythically misguided quest for “normal” love, considering heterosexuality “normal” was myself suppressing interior feelings I now understand have been a part of me forever. That is a triumph. “Good Guy” is a criminally-overlooked cut, short but heartfelt. We begin with him looking around and feeling Othered for simply wanting freedom from the confines of basic American life. ), highly anticipated, and long awaited album Blonde.Still seems surreal we are able to discuss Frank's new album, but here we are!

If the verses of “Seigfried” remained as plain-stated as the opening verse, there would be no conflict of tension to the track. Frank Ocean is finally back in full force, with a new visual album called Endless, a standalone video, free-magazine pop-up shops, and most important, a new non-visual album. I was meant to meet a nice Jewish boy, get engaged in a flurry, and move to a delicate home in the ‘burbs, not too far from my parents, and live a quiet existence with a child, a beautiful yard, and no second thoughts.

He bids goodbye to his past self, which became tangled in superficial social notions, and asserts to go against the current of society and seek a concrete definition for his misunderstood identity.

Frank Ocean revealed to the New York Times that there were 50 different versions of this song, and that his younger brother's favorite didn't make the final cut.

Thoughts and dreams intertwine, and we are unsure of where Frank is going, but his confidence as he declares: “Instead, the winding mentions of thoughts, dreams, and God, all stand for Frank Ocean’s inability to parse what he needs from what he is expected to desire. I was meant to be a sweet Russian-Jewish girl, one who works in speech pathology or the pharmaceutical world, like all the other sweet Russian-Jewish girls I know.

Like in “Nights,” the “Pyramids” of Exactly one summer later, this past summer, my love for this album was only further solidified when Ocean performed at Panorama.