What did you think of it? ? Also our song for next week will be Kids by Current Joys! Go give it a listen.After three years, several false starts, and a marketing campaign that felt like a snipe hunt, enigmatic and charmed R&B singer Frank Ocean has delivered two albums that makes it all worthwhile. This song is a great representation of Blond the album. Frank Ocean never fails to deliver or downplay the voice he was gifted.
It’s one of those songs that you wish were longer, just so you could hear more. This song only runs for 2 minutes and twenty seven seconds. his song is well crafted with the piano in the back, the increasing instruments that then fade out to make a higher anticipation sound, the background vocals and his vocals. She matches the tone and pitch Frank Ocean used throughout the song, just softer. It’s just a nice end detail to the song and really brings it together. You hear that in the “ooooh” and then the women singing the last verses comes in. His background vocals, gives off very much church choir sound, but quieter. Lastly, I bolded the last three verses because it’s not him singing. That’s the art of some of his music, it’s hidden. You have to really listen to the song to actually hear that part, because you more than likely will miss it. I bolded “Ball so hard, all my boys flex” because that’s a prime example. When he isn’t singing though, you have to take the time to listen to the background. It’s significantly lower, allowing his voice to triumph over it, but not eat it. Another way he made this song just hit that nerve, is that the instrumental/background instruments are lower than his voice. You can hear the emotion of the song in his voice which allows you to feel it deeply, if you apply yourself. Now when he says “always”, his pitch is perfectly seated in the middle.įrank Ocean’s pitch is strong and medium high In this song and it helps you feel the song.
He says “let go” higher pitched and then tones it down just for a second when he says “on you”. It’s more noticeable when he says ” I let go of my claim on you”. You can hear him singing with his throat, his entire voice, is another way to say it. As he continues to sing his voice gets higher and he sings out the words longer. You get a lightly increasing instrumental build up and then he comes in hitting a fairly high at the beginning. In the beginning, where I bolded the first line, Frank comes in strong. We hear some nice instrumental throughout the song, pitch changes and background singers. I suggest you listen to this song more than once because it’s easy to miss how well crafted it is. Alot of his fans don’t complain though and will still listen to blond religiously like he just released it.ĭo you have an album like that? Where even though it came out over 5 years ago, you can still listen to it everyday like you’re just hearing it for the first time? If so, tell me what it is below. Frank Ocean’s Blond album is considered one of his bests and people do speculate that he won’t release anything else because he doesn’t want to handle the rejection of not being able to top it. If I’m being honest I am a die hard fan of his and may or may not have a very large poster of this album cover in my dorm room. If you’re not familiar with who he is, Frank Ocean is a 33 year old singer who hasn’t released an album since 2016. Before we get into this song, lets just talk about Frank Ocean.