The housing and banking collapses and of course–one tragedy close to the NOLA-bred singer’s heart–Hurricane Katrina. Listening, we can only think of all the mind-boggling events that have transpired in the 21 st century alone. It has both the mystical elements of the blues tradition as well as the pop-inflected refinement of a Stevie Wonder, Prince and Michael Jackson. Ocean’s music speaks to something no one can quite put their finger on. “No Church In The Wild” and Channel Orange’s first leak “Pyramids” foreshadowed this whole larger-than-life business. Nostalgia.ultra was a nice little piece of work. Ocean a publicity-savvy genius or was he so overcome by the impending release of his first full-length he just had to come clean? Only that man knows that answer. But now the whole ambiguous sexuality thing has been thrown into the mix. So is Mr. All we wanted to do was listen to this highly-anticipated record and make up our own minds about it. While dream hampton and Russell Simmons’ slightly overwrought responses to Ocean’s lovelorn Tumblr screed were of course significant, we’re forced to wonder about the timing of his weighty announcement. Yet levity is needed to diffuse all the hullaballoo surrounding one Mr. Would it be so wrong to just give this record two snaps up in a circle and be done with it? Of course it would.
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