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Listen to channel ORANGE on Spotify. Frank Ocean · Album · 2012 · 17 songs.
Feb 10, 2023 · Across a few-hundred words, Ocean recounted one of Channel Orange’s main inspirations, a 19-year-old man he’d met “4 summers ago.”. The confession that Ocean’s first love was of the same sex was near-unprecedented in hip-hop. And so the game was changed. On July 4, 2012, Frank Ocean shared an open-letter on Tumblr called “thank you ...
Jul 10, 2012 · “Channel Orange” may make Frank Ocean a household name, or it might not. Either way, it’s one of the best albums of the year, and Ocean, hopefully, will keep making more like it, without a ...
Jul 10, 2020 · Tyler Kaufman/FilmMagic / Island Def Jam / Callie Ahlgrim/Insider. Frank Ocean's debut studio album "Channel Orange" was released on July 10, 2012. The album became an instant classic and ...
By the summer of 2012, all had been revealed: through the popularity of Nostalgia, Ultra, Ocean had forced his songwriting deal with Def Jam into a solo career, and channel ORANGE was full of laconic, literary tracks about the underbelly of Southern California life with a Didion-esque intensity and detail.
By the summer of 2012, all had been revealed: through the popularity of Nostalgia, Ultra, Ocean had forced his songwriting deal with Def Jam into a solo career, and channel ORANGE was full of laconic, literary tracks about the underbelly of Southern California life with a Didion-esque intensity and detail.
Channel Orange is the debut studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Frank Ocean. It was released on July 10, 2012, by Def Jam Recordings. After releasing his mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra the previous year, Ocean began writing new songs with Malay, a producer and songwriter who then assisted him with recording Channel Orange at EastWest Studios in Hollywood.