r/FrankOcean

Is it really possible for frank to release an album? I’m thinking he won’t but in a few years MAYBE

Shout out mobile❤️ Ik yall not in tune with this type of music but RYLO SAMPLED FRANKS LYICS FROM THINKING ABT YOU!!!! Guys, things don’t clear without his permission, Frank locked in w the voice of the trenches fr. Rylo also shouted him out the first or second song. My 2 favorite artist of all time. What a day.

Edit: evidently this isn’t sampling after I looked it up on google. My apologies. It’s called “interpolation”, which also needs approval just like a sample. Thanks to who called me out on that. I see your comment on notifications but not on the post.

listened to blonde at 2am and ended up crying over something i’ve never really been able to put into words.
it made me realise i’m not even sad about one specific thing. it’s more this strange grief over time itself.

i feel like my teenage years just… happened. covid took a chunk of it, but even outside of that, i barely feel like i lived them. i had a few close friends but mostly just classmates. no first love, not even a real crush. no crazy memories, no heartbreak. mostly just tutoring, studying, struggling with sleep, and trying to get through each day.

there were periods where i genuinely felt half dead, like i wasn’t awake enough to participate in my own life. one line on blonde about wanting to sleep forever, but not die, hit me harder than i expected because that’s exactly what it felt like.

if someone asked me who i became during those years, i genuinely wouldn’t know what to say
it feels like there was barely any character development. barely any emotional timestamps and no clear chapter where something happened and i changed as a person.

and i think that’s what blonde captures so well. it doesn’t just make you nostalgic for good memories. it makes you mourn versions of yourself that never fully got to exist.
maybe that’s why it hurts so much. because you can make new friends, fall in love later, build a better life, but you can never be 16 again. you can never go back and live the years you only half experienced.

i don’t even know if this post makes sense. i just know that somehow frank ocean made me reconsider my entire life !

I don’t know if it’s on site and I don’t know what it was specifically called to search it up so please help

I started listening to Frank Ocean in 2023, I was first hyped with the song Chanel then moved to the album Channel ORANGE followed by Blonde, one day i got a YouTube recommendation of a song: “strawberry swing” I was like I’ve never heard of that, then played it and felt like I was ascending..

I went all over Reddit searching for NOSTALGIA, ULTRA. Then finally found a link to it. Downloaded it, I listened to it, no skips, no disturbance, and it was genuinely one of the best mixtapes I’ve heard in my life.

Afterwards I wanted more.. I discovered The Lonny Breaux Collection and Undocumented RARE.. ever since then I’ve been a huge Frank Ocean fan, l wish he never left ( ik he’s grieving his brother :(, I just wish one day he’d just come out of no where and drop something but I know we most likely won’t ever get anything from him again, however I’m grateful for the songs he left behind. <3

Like of course your girl is gonna ask for your Facebook, and the fact he got so offended about it implies (to me at least) that he had something to hide.

I usually keep low low expectations but can't help but expect we get something cool for the 10th anniversary. Here's what I think is possible. I'm curious to hear your guys' thoughts too.

1. 10th anniversary special press of Blonde maybe with some additions such as different art inside the cover or being a coloured vinyl, (somewhat likely).

2. Endless restock on Blonded, (somewhat likely).

3. New merch, (probable).

4. Blonded Radio episode, (probable).

5. Instagram story and nothing else, (most likely).