So now that the dust has settled, what do we really think of this?

So now that the dust has settled, what do we really think of this?

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It's shit.

AOTY.

QUE NEGRO MEU DEUS / 10

i liked it

haha it just came out!

Not a big fan, but I don't really pay attention to lyrics so maybe that's where the enjoyment is.

i know this is such a hack analogy but it's pretty much frank's kid a to channel orange's ok computer

Anyone here got the download link???????

>Dust has settled

I was expecting this to be really good and mind blowing and shit because of how much people liked Channel Orange but desu this is a massive letdown out the 17 tracks I liked 6: Nikes, Ivy, Pink + White, Self Control, Nights (this one's my favorite) and Pretty Sweet. I mean the rest of the album is still good to listen to but am I gonna save it all? Yeah no.

Yeah your right it is a hack analogy
Sure this album is more dynamic but it doesn't have much experimentation and parts of almost all songs feel lacking. I found the interludes to be the best parts

jajajaja

you should start, not just for this album

fantano is gonna fucking pan this thing

Light to a decent 6. Calling it right now. Screencap this shit faggots.

u short on ipod space there champ? who the fuck doesnt have enough space to save a god damn album. what the fuck type of fucking music collection are you handling? what the fuck is your problem?

Good but not amazing. Endless is better.

Why would I waste time skipping a song I dont like when I can just delete it all together. Face it. Frank new it was shit. Waited 4 years to over hype it so he can make off with the dick pics

Fantano is a fucking idiot though, so who cares?

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The only song I really enjoy is Self Control, especially when it hits that 2:08 mark.

Pretty mediore. He's very obviously going for the Grammy crowd by trying too hard to make an "artsy" album, instead of just making good music.

Average as fuck. No replay value at all. And he ruined Nikes by pitching his voice trying to be edgy.

is it because he shits on all your favorite boy bands?

>man spends 4 years on album
>dont worry guys dont bother listening i got the official report right here
>he went for the grammy crowd. too "artsy"

start a blog because we really could use more opinion like this. its impressive insight. please start a youtube channel.

Endless >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Blond

But why do people care is the question?

Honest question here: Why do people actually care what he thinks? Like its one thing to read Pitchfork to find new music, but people hype his contrarian opinion and mediocre reviewing abilities more than the actual albums themselves.

its literally fun to see what an establishment taste curator says about an album. i dont watch the fag, but i mean its pretty basic social interaction. he is considered a taste maker..someone who the public has decided is pretty good at judging music and giving explanation. taste makers are in all areas of all art and culture..he just happened to catch on for the faggie indie crowd. could have been any ole' retard really.

Yeah.

With you here.

"Fun"

The dude is a forced meme and a bad one at that. LOOK ME I'M A SHITTY REJECTED TIM & ERIC CHARACTER PLZ GIVE ME A SHOW ADULT SWIM!

Fuck that guy with a cactus.

wtf I love frank ocean now

look i told you i dont watch the fag. but based on his audience there are a significant amount of people who enjoy his reviews.

I was definitely more hyped for his speeding bullet 2 heaven review than for speeding bullet 2 heaven

he won't. he'll give it a 7/10 and that's it.

typical nigger boop bop

black twitter once again proving theyre a bunch of chimps with no standards or quality control


13th amendment was a mistake

A few great songs. Ivy, Siegfried, Self Control, Pink + White. Nikes already got old for me. The outro and the skits are retarded.

i was hostile about it earlier but it's growing on me hard

still prefer "endless" tbqt though

To be a taste maker you need some sort of credential. He's just an average joe with a camera.

"Bro he spent a lot of time making this album so it must be the best thing that has ever happened to humanity, and if you criticize it and call it sub par you are retarded."

andre 3000 snapped

>blond gets unfavorable review
aka subscriber exodus, not happening

He just took on a niche and did it well.
He's an entertaining reviewer, not a very good one.
I like the fact that he got the hip-hop audience following him just so that he can tell the truth about how mediocre every hyped artist actually is. I think that's public service.

is Be Yourself anti-substance or pro-substance?

MASTERPIECE
10/10

He's black, he's been caught with drugs before, what do you think faggot?

kek

you know how i know you didn't listen to it

Halfway through the album and Nikes is by far the best sounding track. Hopefully the rest grows on me cause I'm pretty fucking disappointed right now.

so far I think Pink + White & Solo are the best tracks.

I'm only about 6 tracks in though.

Nikes is fucking weak because the voice modulation kills it.

I fucking love the voice pitch desu. Maybe it's because I'm a basic bitch

>this pos
THE FINAL nai(L) in the coffin

Ayyy lmao

>le raps fast man
>YO THIS SHIT IS FUCKING TIGHT

Two more to go : )

one more

nU counts

Nights is pretty sweet / Agree with Nikes could be so much better without the pitch changes. Endless sounds so so much better only couple of tracks in.

Why listen to songs BY a guy, FOR another guy?

it just sounds like another channel orange

Cause they could be potentially good songs
Or I might like some since I liked Channel Orange

Underwhelming

People saying this is the Kid A of RnB is fucking hilarious.

sounds waaaaay different. more inspired in sound but less inspired in cohesiveness and meaning

how would you describe it? so far im feeling as thought endless was better

You posting this twice in two different threads is fucking hilarious.

Not enough attention for your liking?

seriously. I could take most of endless and throw some of Blonde in there and i'd be able to come up with a way better album tracklist than frank. This is about how I felt about pablo, but im glad Frank at least dropped 2 projects and not just a single half assed one like ye did

I mean, it's pretty standard as far as RnB albums go. Like what is he doing that subverts the genre?

Calm down lad

Inhale, inhale there is heaven.


wew

I think it's the fact that he went further outside his box than he did on channel orange. there is heavier indie influence and some of it sounds like tame impala or james blake. that being said I still think it's pretty underwhelming because its lacking in the meaning/substance that channel orange had, unless nobody is picking up on any of it yet, which i highly doubt. this entire album rollout makes me think frank kept backing out at the last second when they were ready to drop, until they eventually told him he didnt have any more time and had to figure out what to do with what he had. I dont think he knew what he wanted to do and since his vision was never getting any closer to complettion, this+endless is the result. Im expecting this to get ok reviews, just ok

Is this going to be another one of those albums we're supposed to consider important for 'social' / political reasons?

Im a virgin so i dont know what this album is about

Not unless you consider 'RIP Trayvon' a meaningful statement on the current zeitgeist

Where's Part 2?

It's gonna be another 4 years so he might as well drop 3 albums before the end of the weekend

You know what else is average as fuck?

what?

there's been this sort of slight thing where certain hip blacks have been kind of adopting a 'white' aesthetic, like a 'new white', with dyed blonde hair, this (sexually trashy) vague 'gothic' thing, and a musical sound that in a lot of ways doesn't exactly sound as black anymore, like trance synths and stuff and these white-washed more white sounding notes / tonalities (instead of the old 'soulful' notes for a lack of a better word)

also, that slightly different black skater / black suburban thing that somewhat preceded it partly with Odd Future etc

I guess that's what it is, black suburban aesthetic, plus maybe some white and white hipster aesthetics and other white art aesthetics bleeding into black culture as the internet has spread different styles to different places. which I kind of somewhat hate actually.

it seems very flash-in-the-pan and disposable as a sensibility but I don't know, maybe blacks are trying to turn into white as some of them try to achieve a middle class style (which is sad because the middle class is on its way out soon). plus it's not exactly middle class, too druggy and smutty to be, it's just dress up. black girls I do see just straight up trying to go white more and more (see Beyonce - there's an example of nu/pseudo-white), I don't think I see that ending. especially when genetic engineering gets here for the wealthier ones.

It's actually a commentary on Baudrillard's concept of hyperreality and also on hedonism.

I think its moreso this album is just more tumblr than it should be. it didnt get in the way too much on his previous works but hes starting to get more cocky/pretentious

is that explicitly stated with a namedrop or any specific terms, or are you just reading that yourself?

also, the name of the album is also a hot button gesture obviously meant to trigger thinkpieces and lend a kind of 'depth' and controversy, but I think it's also a symptom of this whole unspoken 'we da whites now' kind of aesthetic.

It's about time too. Once blacks start acting more white maybe we''ll finally see whites start acting white again.

I strongly agree with half of what you're saying but I think artists who ask 'who am i' and the answer is, fuck it, i'll decide, aren't fake at all. i'm not threatened by it just like i'm not threatened by lil ugly mane taking on black sensibilities.

wheres the goat version of honeybaby?

except it would be a crass, crude, porn-y, 'Kim Kardashian-y' / new money take on white. which you see a lot already. and that's exactly where it's coming from.

I'm not threatened by it either. some of it just seems really half-assed and superficial. some of it is really compelling and produces interesting things. (most of it is really watered-down and weak, though)

>Sup Forums

I think the strongest example is thugger whose strange androgenous personality is completely at odds with black culture, but he's still strongly a black artist.

It's just Sturgeon's law in effect.

my fucking nigga

>Lil boat gets a 7/10
>MBDTF gets a 6/10
>mfw

Best Tracks so far this weekend.

Endless:

At Your Best (You Are Love)
Mine
Hubolts
In Here Somewhere
Deathwish

Blond:

Godspeed
Seigfried
Night
Pink + White
Solo & Solo (Reprise)

Endless:
U-N-I-T-Y
At Your Best (You Are Love)
Rushes
Rushes To
Slide To

Blonde:
Nights
Skyline To
Seigfried
Nikes
Ivy

honestly hard to choose for both projects, but right now im feeling that Endless might be slightly more enjoyable for me

Ya'll hating on Frank cause he black lmao baka

S.m.h. t.b.h.

the discussion wasnt nearly this bad for endless. the first thread for Blonde was ruined within 25 posts, like clockwork

CO was overrated and this album is underrated

CO is far better than Blond/Blonde at this stage, only contrarian hipsters would say otherwise.

Combine the best from Endless and Blond and you might have an argument

If I was Sky Ferrari I'd be pissed right now. He steals your album cover and actually releases his anticipated album. Actually releases two at that. And he looks more vulnerable and sexual and engrossing than Cloud Cadillac ever did.

All Moon Maserati has left is her tits and twitter rants.

What are you even talking about

>le copy paste from last thread
wow good one

and it wasn't even funny in the first place

If CO is a 7, this is a 6. Respectable effort.

Come on, where else do you think he got that cover art from?