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There’s something both joyous and tragic about RnB singer and hip-hop associate Frank Ocean’s decision to reach out as bisexual. In 2012, this shouldn’t be as ‘heroic’ or ‘brave’ as people are making out.
Personally I’m thrilled, as Frank Ocean’s rising chart stature in a tune genre that’s still so closeted about its homosexual and bi community can only help beat a path to the overdue acceptance of people’s sexuality.
In an eye-wateringly beautiful letter that sums up the bewildering excitement of love’s first pang, Frank wrote:
“4 summers ago I met someone. I was 19 years old. He was too. We spent that summer. And the summer after. Together. Everyday almost. And on the days we were together, moment would glide…by the hour I realised I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless.”
The internet is awash with commentators congratulating his bold and bold move, however his move is also marred with people commenting that they will ‘still love him the same’ as if he’s just announced he’s had his arms amputated and needs some pity.
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Dotty: How Frank Ocean’s coming out changed the landscape
The album that followed was Channel Orange, a body of function that served as the soundtrack to his ‘coming out’ a powerful proposal that saw him pronounce openly of his romance for a man. ‘You run my mind boy’ he sang on Forrest Gump, the album’s most overt exploration of Frank’s sexuality. ‘You're so buff and so strong, I'm nervous, Forrest’, he continued. Then there’s the self-deprecation on , a lyric that sees Frank battle the demons of unrequited same-sex love in the back of a cab. ‘Taxi driver, I swear I've got three lives / Balanced on my top like steak knives / I can't tell you the truth about my disguise / I can't trust no one.’ He sings, ‘I can never make him love me.’
Like his open letter in July 2012, Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange was perfectly undefinable. Flirting with essence, funk and electronic styles without ever turning its back on R&B. It was also a masterclass in songwriting, with each composition showcasing a flair for honesty and vulnerability. The kind of which you’ll only come across every so often i
"FrankOceansay he gay...."
That is what I heard a collective of teenagers tell the other diurnal, here on the streets of Brooklyn, New York, when it came out that Frank Ocean had revealed a past love affair with a gentleman. There was no judgment in that remark, no male lover bashing, not even the slightest hint of hatred or disgust hovering about them. It just is.
For the uninformed, Frank Ocean is an American singer and songwriter, one who fled his native New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina tragedy of 2005, at the age of 18. Now only 24, Ocean has built an impressive and prolific résumé, writing or ghostwriting songs for the likes of Justin Bieber, John Legend, and Beyoncé. Ocean's voice is also prominently featured on the 2011 Jay-Z and Kanye West collaboration album Watch the Throne, and he also happens to belong to a wildly talented but also wildly controversial alternative hip-hop collective called Odd Future Wolf Gang Slay Them All, often abbreviated to OFWGKTA, or simply shortened to Odd Future.
They're controversial because of lyrical content that not only uses the pos "nigga" relentlessly and unapologetically but dives brain first into sexism, violence, and, yes, homophobi
Is Frank Ocean Gay?
Is Frank Ocean Gay?
In Frank Ocean's utterance regarding the death of Prince in 2016, we can start to spot that this is an artist who has wracked his brains around the complexities of living an LGBTQ+ existence. About Prince, he says, "He made me feel more content with how I identify sexually simply by his show of freedom from and irreverence for obviously archaic ideas like gender conformity."
In 2011, he posted a beautiful expression (that can be read below) on Tumblr that was considered to be his coming out to the world. In it, he describes his first affectionate at 19, and how real it felt in comparison to the girls he had cared for in previous relationships. He lets us in to a world of silent romance and the heart-wrenching shattering of a treasure that couldn't be expressed just yet. It all comes through in his song "Thinking About You" which you can beat play on below.
There is no denying that Frank Ocean is part of the LGBTQ+ society. but of what use is this information? Can we use it to learn, to expand, to challenge our own limiting creed systems? If yes, then let's shout it from the rooftops. Let's embrace the intricacies o
The Repercussions of Frank Ocean’s Coming Out
Frank Ocean, one of hiphop and R&B’s biggest breakout successes of the year, came out as male lover – not on national television, but in a shyly poetic, sideways announce on his Tumblr. ‘Four summers ago, I met somebody,’ Ocean wrote. ‘I was 19 years former. He was too. We spent that summer, and the summer after, together. Everyday almost. And on the days we were together, time would glide. Most of the afternoon I’d see him, and his smile. I’d listen his conversation and his silence [...] until it was time to slumber. Sleep I would often share with him. By the time I realized I was in affectionate , it was malignant. It was hopeless. There was no escaping, no negotiating with the feeling. No choice. It was my first love, it changed my life.’
Ocean is a fan – and in some ways, an inheritor – of Prince’s gender-bending approach to songwriting. But he is the first mainstream R&B star to come out of the closet instead of remaining a question mark, continually playing with an ‘is he or isn’t he’ edifice.
The choice to construct his grand coming-out remark via Tumblr made cosmic sense somehow; many of music’s biggest stories this year were mediated almost ent