Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity? Sometimes I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. It’s the same thing - to me - because my point of view from one emotional state to another is a different point of view. Even though the pace of the album’s not frenetic, the pace of ideas being thrown out is.Īre they always multiple points of view, or are they multiple Franks interrupting each other to be heard? Sometimes I felt like you weren’t hearing enough versions of me within a song, ’cause there was a lot of hyperactive thinking. On “Blonde,” especially, you used a lot of different voices. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves, we know the story, we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.” “How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. “That was my version of collage or bricolage,” he said. Many of the new songs have two or three competing narratives - different points of view participating in the same story. In places, like on “Ivy,” he manipulated his voice to sound younger, to better capture the time he was evoking. Ocean’s fame, turbo-boosted by fervent curiosity, would grow even wider. Over the past three years, his absence from the pop troposphere - a void interrupted only by the occasional collaboration, Tumblr post or paparazzi shot - has felt like a position statement against celebrity culture, while simultaneously guaranteeing that Mr. It made him something of an outlier when he emerged as part of the rabble-rousing Odd Future collective, and an outlier still when he catapulted into pop’s top ranks, a group of people not much given to pensive remove. During conversations over two days last month - edited excerpts are below - he was preternaturally calm, consistently forthright, reflexively self-aware, and wryly funny. Not that you would be able to sense the swirl of curiosity that surrounds him by his demeanor. Ocean returned to it quietly, his mystery intact.
Having emerged from the ether with fanfare, Mr. But apart from a lighthearted note and a couple of photos posted on his Tumblr, Mr.
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