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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 project that saw him speak openly of his affection for a man. ‘You verb 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 anthem that sees Frank battle the demons of unrequited same-sex adore in the back of a cab. ‘Taxi driver, I swear I've got three lives / Balanced on my head like steak knives / I can't inform you the truth about my disguise / I can't confide in no one.’ He sings, ‘I can never make him adore me.’
Like his open letter in July , Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange was perfectly undefinable. Flirting with soul, 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
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There&#;s something both joyous and tragic about RnB singer and hip-hop associate Frank Ocean&#;s decision to come out as bisexual. In , 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 music genre that&#;s still so closeted about its gay 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, time would glide…by the moment I realised I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless.&#;
The internet is awash with commentators congratulating his courageous 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.
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 gay – not on national television, but in a shyly poetic, sideways post on his Tumblr. ‘Four summers ago, I met somebody,’ Ocean wrote. ‘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, time would glide. Most of the night I’d see him, and his smile. I’d hear his conversation and his silence [] until it was time to verb. Sleep I would often distribute with him. By the period I realized I was in love, 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 make his grand coming-out statement via Tu
Should we care whether Frank Ocean is gay or bisexual? The short answer is no. Recently this week Anderson Cooper and Megan Rapino, a soccer player on the U.S. women's national soccer team came out of the closet but it wasn't a big shock to anyone who followed their personal lives. The admission was more of a confirmation of what everyone knew or thought they knew about them. Early Wednesday morning, Ocean posted a message on his Tumblr and in the message, which would've been the Thank You's section for his upcoming album, he admits that his first love was a man. The admission comes within a few days of a U.K. radio host questioning his sexuality after listening and reviewing Channel Orange. Apparently in a few songs from the adj album he uses "him" instead of "her" and it's not from a woman's perspective either, a la J. Cole on "Lost Ones", it's from his prospective.
When it comes to Frank Ocean, were there signs that he was gay/bisexual? He has a few odd lyrics about his sexuality on the track "Oldie" that might have given us a clue. I wouldn't have thought so before today