Is frank.ocean gay
Should we care whether Frank Ocean is gay or bisexual? The short retort 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. Initial 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 examining Channel Orange. Apparently in a few songs from the new 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 not many odd lyrics about his sexuality on the route "Oldie" that might contain given us a tip. I wouldn't have mind so before today's admission but I don't obsess over such things enjoy certain people do. I just enjoyed his voice an
It’s A Sin? Frank Ocean & Prejudice Against Male Bisexuality
Frank Ocean’s statement about his sexuality is, in a music world that increasingly communicates through blaring statements and marketing braggadocio, a beautiful, poetic and elegant thing. It’s a rare thing indeed when one so young and so in the general eye is able to express themselves with such openness and honesty about the thorny issue of their sexuality.
Those basic words, typed into Notepad and posted on Tumblr, are surely a stone that will send mighty, important ripples out across the worlds of hip hop and R&B. Hopefully Ocean’s Odd Future pal Tyler The Creator might be given pause for thought on some of the disgustingly homophobic lyrics he insists on spitting into the world. But that isn’t what this piece is about. What was interesting and slightly depressing about the response to Ocean’s nuanced, poetic words was how simplistic they were. “Frank Ocean comes out and becomes the first famous queer rapper in history,” announced Holy Moly. Twitter was full of “Frank Ocean is gay” posts. But did Ocean actually compose that? No. He merely said his first authentic love was a
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There’s something both joyous and tragic about RnB singer and hip-hop associate Frank Ocean’s decision to show up 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 same-sex attracted 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, age would glide…by the age I realised I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless.”
The internet is awash with commentators congratulating his heroic 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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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 homosexual – not on national television, but in a shyly poetic, sideways display on his Tumblr. ‘Four summers ago, I met somebody,’ Ocean wrote. ‘I was 19 years antique. 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 overhear his conversation and his silence [...] until it was time to rest. Sleep I would often share with him. By the time I realized I was in admire , 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 declaration via Tumblr made cosmic sense somehow; many of music’s biggest stories
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