If something went wrong with your order please reach out to us immediately. If you were satisfied with your order we would be very grateful if you can give us some positive feedback. If you have any questions you can contact us anytime. If you are looking for something special, please get in touch. ▴ All files are high resolution (300 dpi) ensuring you the best quality when printed and scaled up.ĭigital files are available immediately after your payment is confirmed via Etsy. ▴ All of our posters are designed in 24" x 36" (60x90cm) sizes, so you can adjust the size of the poster according to your frame without any loss. You can use any paper you like (matte, textured, gloss etc) and any style frame to mount it to your wall. ▴ Print out this artwork from your home printer, your local print shop or online printing service to decorate your home or office. Welcome to We Love Poster Designs - Happy shopping! Image of Frank Ocean, shot by Nabil for Oyster Magazine.Steve Lacy - The Lo-Fis Album Cover Poster / Steve Lacy Poster / 2 Colors 1 Price Stand outs: Pink + White, Ivy, Solo, Siegfried What it could mean for you, I don’t know, but I hope you’ll give it a listen. To me, Blonde is happiness and discovery. The songs highlight and narrate relatable highs and lows. In my life, Frank Ocean’s Blonde was the background music to a long car ride down a dark winding road as some friends and I headed to the city with only our voices and the headlights.
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It’s not so dissimilar to real life, when your heart rushes and rages but also sometimes feels like it’s full of ice. Everything on this album, and particularly this song, is delivered with the confidence of someone just trying to figure it out, stumbling and skinning a knee, and then shrugging it off with cockiness in spite of the sting.īlonde feels a bit like a speeding train towards the middle, rising in both anxiety and passion. Self Control is cheekily confident as Ocean boasts, “I’ll be the boyfriend in your wet dreams tonight”, but once again manages to sound vulnerable due to the ambience of the instrumentals. In a more somber setting, we also receive a glimpse into the life of a young adolescent on the receiving end of a mother’s well-meaning but aggressive rhetoric about drug use and similar lifestyle choices in the phone-call sketch track Be Yourself: “This is mom: call me. "I thought that I was dreaming when you said you love me He reminds us that we all eventually grow up, and the ways we learn lessons by tiptoeing through insecurities, bumping into them, getting surprised: Ivy is a wistful and earnest recalling of childhood and the beginnings of a young love story. There's a bull and a matador dueling in the sky "It's hell on Earth and the city's on fire The album under review, is titled Blonde (stylised as Blond) by African American artist Frank Ocean, released in 2016 by Blonded (Beats 1 radio show and label company, conducted by Ocean). While I might not have been solo when I first heard it, the song represents a beautiful, bittersweet feeling of loneliness and desperation: I remember my heart growing bigger than the sky as I made out with my second sort-of-boyfriend in his messy college room to Ocean’s blossoming run here. Ocean gives a spiritual performance as he moves from low to high, microcosmic to macrocosmic, and sings about the constellations. Here, cussing is juxtaposed with a gentle organ, a surprising addition to a rap album, and small, sharp whistling accents. The track called Solo has remained a transcendent experience for me every time I hear it. It’s simple and clean and gives Ocean the space to play with this sparseness for the album’s remainder. Frank Ocean balances the past, the future, and the gratitude for both good and bad experiences.īlonde has a vulnerable start with a sparse tone, only a lone guitar populating the background. Listening to it now, having just graduated from college and stumbling into young adulthood with one foot in the nostalgic mire, it well encapsulates the transition into what? for a twenty-something like me.
Blonde is lengthy but well worth your time as the perfect album for late nights and languid mornings. I believe that what makes the album so special is that its rap can be best summarized as sentimental, which is sometimes a rarity for the genre. This review will instead detail the ways in which Blonde taps into the uncertain and poignant emotions of youth. Considering that Frank Ocean’s Blonde album has been out for a couple of years now, there are plenty of articles dissecting its meaning and form.
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