“I used to do that myself a lot and say they because I was too afraid to say her. “There were some songs he never specified the gender of the person he was talking about,” writer and editor Stephanie Smith-Strickland told INTO. And even though here, Ocean’s lyrics in particularly refer to a male, in other songs it wasn’t just the way he talked about his emotions that found traction, but also the way he talked about his lovers.
The lyrics spin together a tale of both unrequited love and the story of being closeted at the same time, of not only not being able to reveal your true self for fear of condemnation but of the helpless state that love can put you in.
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In the track, Ocean takes refuge from the demons that surround him in a taxi ride, using his driver as both confessional priest and therapist. People who do not live the reality of being queer and black will never understand the pain and internal struggle that comes with, but that song will give you some insight.” “’Bad Religion’ solidified my interest in his music,” Dion McKenzie, AKA Tygapaw, a DJ and the founder behind the queer nightlife collective Fake Accent in New York, told INTO. Frank was my “Bad Religion” and while at first I couldn’t put it into words, there was something about the way he talked about his emotions that resonated with me in a way that few others had.
Then there was the revealing Tumblr letter following questions about his pronoun usage in a song and finally there was Channel Orange, the album.įrom that project, “Pyramids” sent me to sleep every night for two months and “Thinkin Bout You” woke me up. My entry point came subtly when I heard his vocals on Kanye West and Jay-Z’s Watch The Throne album. I was not an early adopter of Frank Ocean.
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