Frank Ocean and Ms. Lauryn Hill , Testing. Frank Ocean , Astroworld. In addition to singing like he does and writing songs for his critically acclaimed albums, Frank has been known to pen tunes and parts for others as well. In fact, that's how he got his start. This is a list of songs with writing credits attributed to Frank that he does not sing on. Frank's demo of this song is found on The Lonny Breaux Collection.
Here's a snippet from a Beats1 interview with Pharrell about Frank's contribution. Frank's vocal for the part was leaked in The following instrumentals are legitimate, not reproduction. Sources have been listed where possible. Originally aired on a now deleted stream where Vegyn played the mix. Rarer than instrumentals of Frank's music are isolated vocal tracks.
In the 4 days leading up to Endless ' premiere in full on Apple Music, loops of instrumental music played for 24 hours straight. Download the entire pack here. Get some background on the livestreaming event here. In March of , Chipotle sued Frank Ocean for failing to deliver a cover of "Pure Imagination" that was to be used in an advertisement for the brand. In the end, Fiona Apple delivered a hauntingly beautiful rendition of the song for the advertisement which proved quite popular.
It's unlikely we will ever hear Frank's rendition, if it was ever recorded at all. Alycia Bellamy posted a video on Snapchat from a recording studio wherein you could hear Frank singing a cover of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy. If the full song was recorded, it has still yet to surface.
A second Hodgy Beats snippet was posted and saved. It's undetermined if the clip features Frank or Hodgy singing. This unreleased Frank Ocean song may or may not have been recorded, but the lyrics were featured in Boys Don't Cry amongst the tracks that made up Blonde.
Here is a scan of the lyrics as they appeared in the magazine. Story behind Frank's possible book-in-progress. Tweet confirming the cutting room collab. Clip from Malay's Periscope. Sound boosted snippet. They auctioned the full track out in mid It's unknown who, if anyone, purchased the track.
Songs have appeared in soundtracks, mid-episode backing tracks, and even the odd cover performance by an actor on screen. This is a work in progress list of song appearances in television and film. Information provided by fan submissions and TuneFind. Back undocumented, RARE. Back About Contact. Studio Albums. Listen on Apple Music. Listen on Spotify. Visual Albums. Watch on Apple Music. Hudson and The Eagles, which Ocean sings over. Ocean, when uploading the album to iTunes, labeled it as bluegrass and death metal, out of arbitrariness.
When asked about why he uploaded the songs in that way, he replied; "I don't want to seem like I have a cause against genres, or maybe I do Bluegrass is swag. Bluegrass is all the way swag. Not like writing the songs [or] arranging the songs. That had a level of difficulty, too.
But just piecing together all the levels to do it at the level, the quality of records I wanted to make… But, it was a process I appreciate so much. That's what this record felt like. I was just trying to make a record with the shit that I wanted to express. The shit that I wanted to get off my chest. It doesn't matter what the details of it are. He continued, "you gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time.
I guess it all starts with the stories for me. But you have fun with the imagery, and for me the whole concept that everything has to be Like, nobody gets upset with a director when a director's film isn't about his life. People think that with a recording artist that shit has to be like a fucking play by play of their whole life, but it's not.
It's imagery, and a little bit of satire. The album begins with a melodic cover of "Strawberry Swing" by English alternative rock band Coldplay. Connor O'Neill of The Miscellany News writes that the cover begins the album with "so much atmosphere you almost melt into it" and then "spreads you over an apocalyptic swan song". The song ends abruptly with the rude sound of an alarm clock, followed by the "nightmarish" song "Novacane".
It has been called a love song of sorts, with influence taken from alternative hip hop group The Pharcyde. Lyrically the track explores a narrative in which the singer meets a girl attempting to pay her way through dental school by working in porn. Ocean meets the girl at Coachella, a musical festival which takes place in Indio, California.
Ocean serves as the protagonist in the song, in love with a girl "so gone on drugs that Ocean, wanting to be close to her, has no choice but to get gone on those same drugs".
The pair get high using dental local anesthetics. Ocean serves as an unreliable narrator. This is reported to give the album a more nostalgic feel; the record is "held together by tiny interludes named after s video games in which the unmistakable sounds of a cassette player rewinding, fast-forwarding, and stopping are heard". On the track "We All Try", Ocean speaks out against homophobia. According to The Guardian, "Odd Future's frequent use of the word 'faggot' unsettled liberal stomachs", and that "Ocean was brave enough to stand alone once more, declaring on 'We All Try': 'I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman, but between love and love'.
Pitchfork Media wrote that "in a skit called "Bitches Talkin", the ladies tell him to cut it out with the damn Radiohead, while "Optimistic" is playing in the background; in 'Songs 4 Women', he obliges—he's an indie kid when it comes to alienation but a pragmatist when it comes to sex. The song offers a self-effacing perspective, with a numbed, restrained delivery.
Lyrically the track expresses a narrative where he tries to arrange an after-school meeting in his dad's empty house and brags about harmonizing to Otis, Isley and Marvin. He laments that his woman doesn't listen to him or his music: "It's like she never heard of me. The mixtape also contains several references to American director Stanley Kubrick and his films, most notably Eyes Wide Shut.
Nicole Kidman's adulterous soliloquy from the film can be heard during the song "Lovecrimes", adding a sense of manic dread. Following that is the track "There Will Be Tears". The song has been described as emotional in nature, containing a glitchy beat sampled from Mr Hudson, with heavily synthesised vocals. The song is a grim escape fantasy describing a murder suicide, which "has the singer driving his car to the shore, his trunk 'bleeding' with 'broken hearts'.
The track expresses an extended tale of a shotgun marriage and subsequent divorce. Its here that we "might get a little peek into the psychology of the man shirking the foremost genre for love songs: He doesn't believe in love. At least not in the United States. The song exhibits Ocean as an "openly fun character", opening the song with the line "I've been meaning to fuck you in the garden. Nostalgia, Ultra received critical acclaim from music critics.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of to reviews from mainstream critics, the mixtape received an average score of 83, based on nine reviews, which indicates "universal acclaim".
Anupa Mistry of Exclaim! AbsolutePunk praised the beats as "unique, well-executed originals" and commented that songs such as "Swim Good" and "Strawberry Swing" show that "Ocean's voice is as great as his knack for writing thoughtful pop songs.
Club called the mixtape "dark, playful, a little tasteless, and absolutely riveting". But there's also a heady surreality surrounding Nostalgia, Ultra that makes it unique.
Ocean announced that the re-release would have been titled Nostalgia, Lite and that it was expected to feature seven tracks.
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