Channel Orange

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Ocean said that he admires "the anonymity that directors can have about their films" and explained his use of interludes on the album, saying that "the work is the work. According to music journalists, Channel Orange has an unconventional musical style, [26] with influences from psychedelic, [27] pop-soul, [28] jazz-funk, [29] and electro-funk genres. Crack Rock" depicts a crack addict, [36] likens love to the highs and lows of drug use, [50] and broadly addresses corruption, broken homes, gun violence, [3] and government indifference to rising crack-related deaths. He had a maid at the mansion and enjoyed amenities such as a pool and a sauna, but ended up recording only three songs there—" Lost", " Pyramids", and "Analog 2", a collaboration with fellow Odd Future member Tyler, the Creator. Frustrated with Def Jam Recordings' inactivity in his recording career, Frank Ocean released his debut mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra online for free in February 2011.

Me llegó con la orilla dañada pero nada importante, por lo que pagué que fueron 280 la verdad es que estoy más que conforme con lo que recibí, el disco incluía muchas cosas entre ellas todo lo de las fotos además de las mismas letras de las canciones en el pequeño tipo libro que incluye el mismo disco. Jon Caramanica of The New York Times found the album to be "rife with the sting of unrequited love, both on the receiving and inflicting ends", with "lovers who tantalize but remain at arm's length.Malay joined him as the tour's musical director and said that it would expand on the production of Ocean's previous concerts for Nostalgia, Ultra. As a Hollywood transplant, Frank Ocean is into make-believe – and the question of how you create and deconstruct make-believe. It recounts the narrator's lust for a girl as a teenager, [41] and compares their relationship to the vicissitudes of Sierra Leone such as diamonds and civil war. Credits are adapted from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) [136] and Tidal. It has a bright, Motown-inspired chorus, [64] a simple rhythmic cadence, gently strummed guitar, wistful vocals, and a perkily whistled coda.

The low-key torch song "Thinkin Bout You" features soothing synth cycles, [6] sparse keyboards, [35] muffled electronic percussion, [38] and lyrics addressing a lover with white lies in the verses and thoughts of eternal love in the chorus. Brice Ezell from PopMatters wrote that it denotes "the vital midpoint of the overarching narrative", where "the wittier tone of the record's front half gives way to an emotionally dense second half. Reviewing in July 2012 for The Daily Telegraph, Neil McCormick said Ocean has drawn on a variety of musical ideas and pushed the boundaries of the electronic, beat-driven sounds currently dominating popular music. The songs are confessional yet guarded, alive to all sorts of musical and lyrical possibilities, working in a number of genres within the space of a single composition, alert to both dream imagery and realistic observations of the world around him. To prevent Channel Orange from leaking onto the Internet, Ocean and Def Jam released the album digitally one week earlier than its publicly announced date.A quiet outlier, he scored notable collaborations with Jay-Z and Kanye West, yet managed to breach popular culture without making much noise. Frank Ocean on tour, played La Zona Rosa, performed 'Super Rich Kids' w/ Earl Sweatshirt in LA (videos, setlist)". Other recording locations included Henson Recording Studios and the Record Plant in Hollywood, Westlake Recording Studios and Studio for the Talented and Gifted in Los Angeles, Manhattan Sound Recording in New York City, and San Ysidro in Beverly Hills. Ocean agreed to perform at the awards show only if they let him play the song he wanted, [19] "Forrest Gump".

Allusions to Ocean's own experience with unrequited love are featured in several songs, [54] including "Thinkin Bout You", "Bad Religion", and "Forrest Gump". Music journalist Sasha Frere-Jones noted "a combination of decadence and spiritual ache similar to Prince's". In November 2013, it was ranked at number nine on Complex magazine's list of "The 50 Best Pop Album Covers of the Past Five Years", with contributing journalist Dale Eisinger writing in an accompanying essay: "Ocean took a simple route with the cover … Employing the classic Cooper Black font — a staple of his Odd Future crew and hip-hop history, alike — next to a more modern, Sans-Serif font shows just how smart this dude is, looking back to the past, while clearly aware of his surroundings.Ocean's manager Christian Clancy responded in a message on Twitter that he found it "interesting" that Target "also donates to non-equal rights organizations", suggesting their decision was influenced by Ocean's coming out. John Calvert of The Quietus wrote that his lyrics treat love as "innocent", and feature "flying-as-love" metaphors and "respectful euphemisms" for sex such as a flight on a " fighter jet". Channel Orange debuted at number two on the US Billboard 200 and sold 131,000 copies in its first week, eventually selling 621,000 copies in the US by September 2014. Ocean reached out to rappers André 3000 and Big Boi of hip hop duo Outkast to appear on "Pink Matter".

Products labelled '*item fulfilled by Exertis on behalf of hmv' will be supplied to you directly by Exertis via their approved couriers. Robert Christgau asserted that, without its predecessor's reliance on samples, "Ocean resists making a show of himself—resists the dope hook, the smart tempo, the transcendent falsetto itself. Ocean's disclosure was received with support from Def Jam and praise from other recording artists and cultural commentators.

The front cover features an orange background superimposed by the title – "channel" rendered in lower-case Cooper Black font and "orange" rendered in all upper-case Sans-serif, with the former overlaid by an image of colored spots from a camera flash.