Frank Ocean is a music artist that has been making alternative R&B music since 2010. He has won two Grammy’s and one Brit award. His last release was back in 2020 when he dropped two singles. I cannot wait until he finally drops again. In this blog I will be listing my favorite Frank Ocean songs. 

5. Pink+White

This song was featured on an album of his called “Blonde.” This is a slower song that focuses on the music in the background and how they work together. The music mixed with his voice make a beautiful, harmonious mixture of soft melodies that are pleasant to the ears. This is a more calming and positive sounding song. The song is about his cousin that passed away. This cousin was more of a role model for Frank and taught him a lot of things in life. This song memorializes his cousin and shows how much Frank misses him. This song is at fifth place due to the slower pace and the repetition of many parts. This song is still one of my overall favorite songs, as is most of his songs.

4. Super Rich Kids

This song was feature on his album called “Chanel Orange.” This song focuses on Frank’s voice and is mainly telling a story. It is about a rich boy who feels as if he was given too much, and he just want to have a normal life with someone to love. This part of the song repeats multiple times to show his longing for that life. In the middle of the song, he sings about getting that love and hanging out with them while drinking his parents’ wine. Because he is drunk, he ends up joking too much while they are sitting on the roof. He jokes to his love about jumping off the ledge and almost falls, but she catches him. When she catches him, she scolds him. But then his sleeve rips and he fall off the multiple story roof. The part about longing for a normal life then repeats one more time, as if his life is flashing before his eyes. Frank’s tone of voice throughout this song and the background vocals does an amazing job at making you feel his longing for his normal life. This song is in fourth place due to the imagery in this song and the amazing and sad story that is told.

3. Pyramids

This song is also in Chanel Orange. This song focusses on both the background and lyrics. The lyrics are telling a story like many of his other songs, and the background music also has moments where it plays and give the listener more feeling. It tells the story of how black women used to serve a huge role in power in history back in countries like Egypt, and now they are people who get walked are over and mistreated. He compares this story to the tale of Cleopatra and how she became Marc Antony’s mistress and her whole empire lost respect for her. He then talks about a girl in the story who is just a common stripper that “Frank” dates. He tells how she makes him money and she is objectified. I’ve put this one at three due to the message it gives and how pleasing this song is to listen to. This song is ten minutes long, so I put it lower due to that.

2. Novacane

This song is the lead single form his album Nostalgia, Ultra. This song is pretty inappropriate, so I won’t go into detail of what it’s about. I will say it is about the use of drugs and how he feels using them. But this song really amazing. It is one of his most catchy songs that I’ve heard so far. Every time I listen to it, I get it stuck in my head and can’t get it out. Though the premise of the song is inappropriate, this song is very upbeat and really makes feel it, sort of like a drug. This song does a really good job at portraying the drug part through the sound. The catchiness and the Rythm were made to feel like a drug, and it does a really good job at doing that. This song is only at number two because the last one beats all of these combined in my opinion.

1. White Ferrari

This song is also featured on Blonde. This is probably one of his most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. There are so many sounds in the song that work together to make a beautiful melody that I think sound like Heaven. These sounds are hard to put into words, but they do such a good job at portraying the raw and emotional tone of the song. The song is about a past relationship and the pain he feels from it. The lyrics are extremely raw and painful. So much so, you really feel the emotion flowing through you so much, it makes you really want to cry. He travels through the song showing how it feels to love, lose, and grow. This song will be ranked at number one due to the emotions it’s able to convey and the beauty of the lyrics. This will forever be my number one song.

My last blog about this had way too many words, so I decided to do a part two. This one has my favorite character and my least favorite character.

Rex Splode

Rex Splode is a side protagonist that is on the Guardians of the Globe (the Justice League) who can turn anything he touches into an explosive. In the first season, he was funny, but he was not very likeable. His girlfriend was another side protagonist that I will go over soon, and he treated her badly, hence the reason he was not generally liked. He was very cocky and acted tougher than everybody else, but in the second season, he ended up getting a redemption ark that was very likeable. Many redemption arks I have seen have been bland and seem like the show is just trying to make a new likeable character to make more money, but this show makes his redemption ark better, and it makes a lot of sense. He slowly becomes better with time, and an important moment in the show shows him how bad of a person he was, and he realizes something must change before he hurts others. He keeps his cockiness for comedic affect, but he becomes a better hero who is way better to his friends in the end. 

Amber Bennet

An Invincible character overview is not correct until you go over how awful this character is. I am not sure if any of you have watched this show, but if you have, I am hoping you agree with me on this. Amber Bennet is a side protagonist that really feels like an antagonist at some points. She is the girlfriend of Invincible, and she really does not understand his struggle. I have tried to leave out spoilers in this overview but there may be a few here. When they start dating, Mark ends up leaving her alone on their plans a few times because of some important hero work that really needs to be taken care of. Invincible does not tell her that he is a hero in the beginning because he did not want anything to happen. So, you can understand why she gets upset with the constant change of plans, right? Wrong. When the balancing gets so tough for Invincible, he ends up telling her that he is a hero. And instead of finally understanding why he has been leaving her alone so often, she says that she knew he was a hero all along and that she is still mad. All because he was not honest with her. After he tries to explain why this was happening, she shuts him up and breaks up with him. The only reason they got back together was because his dad’s absence was covered up as his dad’s death and she felt bad for him. Thankfully, they finally officially broke up at the end of the second season. I have an undying hatred for this character, and I am so glad she is going to be seen a lot less.