He ensured that any fan who felt uncomfortable with his disclosure would need to confront that homophobia, and he cultivated a more spacious and accepting environment for other artists. 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. Frank Oceans 'Channel Orange' includes two songs addressed to a male lover, but it trivializes the album to focus on that issue in lieu of everything else the album encompasses. It was released on July 10, 2012, by Def Jam Recordings.
To have his coming-out letter baked into the foundation of "Channel Orange," Ocean guaranteed that anyone who enjoyed his music would need to see him as a whole, complex person. Channel Orange (stylized as channel ORANGE) is the debut studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Frank Ocean. As singer-songwriter Iman Jordan told the Los Angeles Times, "Frank Ocean was the beginning of the revolution." Channel ORANGE breezes from sepia-toned Stevie Wonder homage (Sweet Life) to the corrosive.
Today, we have Lil Nas X, ILoveMakonnen, Kevin Abstract, and Ocean's own friend Tyler, the Creator - not to mention women of color like Kehlani, Janelle Monáe, Syd, Halsey, and Young M.A - who either came out in pivotal moments of their careers or before their careers had taken off, making queerness an essential aspect of their art. Stepping away from both the pop songwriting machine and his former crew Odd Future’s stoned anarchy, Frank Ocean guides us on a meandering but purposeful journey through his own vast mythological universe on his major-label debut.
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