Featured New Releases Editors Choice All New Releases Discover. So here we are today doing the impossible: ranking the songs on Blonde from worst (for the record, none of these are bad) to best. Find album release information for Blonde by Frank Ocean on AllMusic. The album features guest vocals from Andr 3000, Beyonc, and Kim Burrell, among others. It was released on August 20, 2016, as a timed exclusive on the iTunes Store and Apple Music, and followed the August 19 release of Ocean's video album Endless. To many, it’s already a classic.Ī body of work that’s considered a classic, and feels perfectly whole, has some songs that hit just as deep as they did when you first saw Frank place his hand over his eyes. Blonde (alternatively titled blond) is the second a studio album by American singer Frank Ocean. 173 this week), has since been certified platinum by the RIAA, and has surfaced on all-time album lists while its legacy is still in its infancy. The word gay shows up just once on Blonde, the long-awaited sophomore album from Frank Ocean.In the short interlude Good Guy, Ocean describes a blind date with someone he met through a. Two weeks after dropping his proper sophomore album Blonde, the follow-up to 2012’s Channel. There’s a reason it still floats on and off of the Billboard 200 chart five years later (most recently at No. Frank Ocean’s album release event deserves much more than a hot take. But if you spun “Self Control” at your most emotionally vulnerable state, “held together” may not be the right terminology.īlonde has been the album we turn to when we need a good cry, when we’re searching for a moment of reflection, and when the only thing we desire is a French producer to remind us of the dangers of social media.
When it was hell on earth and when the city was on fire, Frank Ocean’s Blonde-released on this date in 2016-held us together for half a decade of pandemics, political turmoil, and poolside convos turned failed romances.