[22] For "Bad Religion", engineer Jeff Ellis tried to compensate for the few string players they had by arranging seating for a large string section in EastWest's Studio 1 and using a pair of old stereo ribbon microphones to capture the sound. [5] They also put up posters of Pink Floyd and Bruce Lee, and projected inaudible old movies in the studio's background. I mean, 'experience' is an interesting word. [1] Ocean and Def Jam eventually mended their relationship,[1] and while a planned contracted edition of Nostalgia, Ultra never materialized, the label released two of its songs as singles, including the Billboard charting "Novacane". [84] The album sold 54,000 copies in its second week, excluding discounted copies sold by Amazon.com, which Billboard estimated to be approximately 15,000 copies. [3] "Super Rich Kids" references the thumping piano line of Elton John's 1973 song "Bennie and the Jets" and addresses young, wealthy characters' ennui and fears of the financial crisis with dry humor. [10] Ocean told him to tell any kind of story with his verse for "Pink Matter". 2, recorded atmospheric instrumentation by Mayer and other musicians, and tracked it to the original instrumental. [80] Although its wide physical release was scheduled for July 17,[81] Universal encouraged physical retailers to start selling it immediately after they receive shipments of the album. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has many variants; some are or have been believed to be of particular importance. Again, his demo appears on Anthology. Channel Orange has an unconventional musical style, drawing on electro-funk, pop-soul, jazz-funk, psychedelic music, and nonmusical sounds such as film dialogue and ambient noise that function as interludes. [5] Their stage setup featured a guitarist, bassist, drummer, two pianos, and a DJ setup behind television monitor props,[100] which showed ever-changing images. Channel Orange (stylized as channel ORANGE) is the debut studio album by American R&B singer-songwriter Frank Ocean. [55] Greg Kot wrote that Ocean presents "a dialogue between his self-gratifying lust and more selfless conscience", with Prince-like "psychedelic-gospel inflections" and Marvin Gaye-like overdubbing of Ocean's vocals, which give the impression of voices in conversation with one another. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. [136], Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[16]. Tips: Søker du etter flere ord, er det lurt å sette disse i hermetegn (eks. [96] By September 2016, the album had sold 686,000 copies in United States. [5] Ocean produced most of Channel Orange and was assisted by Malay,[6] who also played guitar, bass, keyboards, and brass instruments. [35] Music journalist Sasha Frere-Jones noted "a combination of decadence and spiritual ache similar to Prince's". [6] The skit "End" depicts an exchange between Ocean and a woman as they make love in the backseat of a car with his 2012 song "Voodoo" playing over the stereo. Ocean's mother called it "a perfect summertime album" after attending a listening session. Schalten Sie mit unserem Basis Paket KStA PLUS alle kostenpflichtigen Artikel und Inhalte zusätzlich frei und profitieren Sie von exklusiven Themenserien. [10], The album artwork was designed by Thomas Mastorakos, Aaron Martinez, and Phil Toselli, with photography by Dave Eggar. [58] Its lyrics address sex, conception, early parenthood,[57] and childhood dreams. It was promoted with five singles, including Ocean's highest charting single "Thinkin Bout You" (number 32 on the US Billboard Hot 100) and a supporting concert tour in July 2012. [19], Their production also emphasized instrumentation and was a departure for Ocean after Nostalgia, Ultra's reliance on samples. 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Tyler the Creator)", "Frank Ocean – "Golden Girl" (Feat. [35] The lyrics follow an emotional confession to a taxi driver by a narrator brooding over a secretive intimate relationship. [10] For his lyrics, Ocean used both his past personal experiences and imagination to compose narratives for songs. [30] HipHopDX categorized it as an alternative R&B album,[31] while Evan Rytlewski from The A.V. [16] He originally planned to rent recording equipment and the Beverly Hills mansion alone rather than rent a studio for $1,600 a day. The majority of its first-week sales were digital copies from iTunes, while approximately 3,000 of the sales were physical copies. [13] On June 8, Ocean announced a July 17 release date and released a trailer for the album directed by Nabil Elderkin. [9] Since transitioning from writing for other artists, he had been influenced by his "gloriously painful love life" when writing songs. You requested a very large number of pages in a very short time, causing problems for our server (this can happen if you hit 'refresh' over and over). [3][63] The new wave-styled "Lost" is about a perplexed addict,[56] who hopes for a better life for him and his drug-cooking girlfriend. [72] The cover was revealed on June 23, 2012, via online media outlets. [20][21] Ocean and Malay's final mix of the song for the album added a strings intro. [83] Digital copies sold for $2.99 at Amazon were excluded from Nielsen SoundScan's sales data, as Billboard's chart policy disqualified albums sold for less than $3.49 from charting. [122] Overall, it was the "top-ranked" album in year-end lists, according to Metacritic. [5] To downplay himself from being "the focal point" of the album, Ocean did not want his name on the cover and had Everest, his Bernese Mountain Dog, credited as the executive producer instead. [3] Although it lacked conventional promotion, the mixtape attained a following among listeners and received critical acclaim. "[15], Once the songs were written, Ocean ordered them into what ultimately became the album's track listing and began recording them in that order. [74] On July 9, he made his television debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and performed "Bad Religion" with backing from the show's house band The Roots and a strings section. [94] and the following week, Channel Orange sold almost 14,000 more copies. Juan Manuel carries out research and analysis focused on G-10 currencies for the Foreign Exchange Strategy group. 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[108] During an August performance at Øyafestivalen in Norway, Ocean lost his voice and ended his set early. [126] Ocean agreed to perform at the awards show only if they let him play the song he wanted,[19] "Forrest Gump". : The movie, song, and soundtrack album—"Help!". [5][6] They originally met in Atlanta and worked for the same publishing company, through which they reconnected after Malay moved to Los Angeles. She says to him, "You're special. [70], According to Malay, Kanye West helped Ocean during the album's final stages by providing "a mentorship situation" and connecting him with his "visual people". [109] He later withdrew from his European tour dates altogether,[110] including English rock band Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto Tour,[111] on which he would have been the opening act during the tour's European leg in August and September. [10] John Calvert of The Quietus wrote that his lyrics treat love as "innocent", and feature "flying-as-love" metaphors and "respectful euphemisms" for sex such as a flight on a "fighter jet". There's not much we can do about this right now; you'll have to turn off your VPN in order to continue using the site. Channel Orange (stylized as 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 in 2011, Ocean began writing new songs with Malay, a producer and songwriter who assisted him with recording his debut album at EastWest Studios in Hollywood. You could have been banned by mistake. [74] Announced on June 8,[98] the tour had sold out by July 9. [5] Ocean said of the album's development in an interview for Rap-Up, "It succinctly defines me as an artist for where I am right now and that was the aim. At the 2013 Grammy Awards, Channel Orange was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Urban Contemporary Album. [75] The show announced the album's actual release date and vendor,[76] Universal Music Group,[77] who made it available on July 10 as a digital download on iTunes. On January 9, Angeli was arrested and... brought up on U.S. federal charges of "knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds". [104][105][106] After his performance at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C., Ocean reflected on the tour and wrote on his Twitter account, "This tourlife takes some getting used to. [6] Embling of Tiny Mix Tapes regarded Channel Orange as a "songwriter's album" and views that, although "the emotions, mood, and melodies are broad enough to draw listeners in", Ocean's lyrics are "apocryphal, allowing for personal interpretations". "[103] Ocean cancelled his tour-closing show at Saint Andrew's Hall in Detroit on August 1 due to illness. You (or someone with the same IP address as you) might be using a script or program to download pages from this site automatically. It won him the Album of the Year award at the 2012 Soul Train Music Awards[123] and Outstanding Music Artist at the 2013 GLAAD Media Awards. [130] In 2019, The Guardian ranked it 12th in a list of the 100 best albums from the 21st century,[131] while on rankings of the 2010s' top albums, Uproxx placed it 13th[132] and Pitchfork placed it 10th. [6] In the studio, they reworked the musical ideas from their writing sessions, incorporated live production, and ornamented their songs musically. "[20] The album also explores decadence,[8] the trappings of class disparity,[26] drug dependency,[12] and the tension between spirituality and secularity, a prevalent theme in soul music. [37] Jesse Cataldo of Slant Magazine viewed that the segues, along with the other songs' disparate lengths, give the album the feel of a mixtape. [113], Channel Orange was met with widespread critical acclaim. [11] Scrapping his original plan of including it in the album's liner notes,[13] Ocean published a TextEdit file as an open letter through his Tumblr blog on July 4. After releasing his mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra in 2011, Ocean began writing new songs with Malay, a producer and songwriter who assisted him with recording his debut album at EastWest Studios in Hollywood. [37] Ocean's narratives generally depict dark,[36] broken characters,[10] and a Southern California setting,[35] with references to its sunny, coastal environment in both the lyrics and melodies. [57] "Crack Rock" depicts a crack addict,[36] likens love to the highs and lows of drug use,[50] and broadly addresses corruption, broken homes, gun violence,[3] and government indifference to rising crack-related deaths. 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[61] The swooning song contains hazy electronic blips,[3][4] impressionistic textures, experimental beat patterns, refracted sound effects, and vocal improvisation expressing the narrator's "high". Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. You might have a buggy browser extension installed. [95] Ocean also performed "Thinkin Bout You" and "Pyramids" on Saturday Night Live on September 15, the latter of which featured John Mayer on guitar. Sorry as fuck, I'll be back if you'll have me. 1, Frank Ocean Selling Big", "Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange' Heading for iTunes Early Release", "Frank Ocean to BBC: 'Channel Orange' released early to beat leaks", "Target Won't Carry Frank Ocean's 'Channel Orange, "Nas Set For Sixth No. That's special, and the women still scream in the front row. The sequence WIV04/2019, belonging to the … Her kan du se lidt af det bedste - og værste af det, der er blevet produceret i årenes løb. [87] In Canada, the album debuted at number three on first-week sales of 6,700 copies. In Rolling Stone, Jody Rosen preferred the album's more structured songs and argued that Ocean sometimes seems to be "less a songwriter than a purveyor of formless grooves". "finnmark fylke"). [35] Jason Lipshutz of Billboard viewed that Ocean examines love in the context of money, drugs, and sex. 4 on the Billboard Chart", "Florence + the Machine Tops U.K. [19] Originally written by Ocean for singer Bridget Kelly, "Thinkin Bout You" had been recorded as an early take by him and posted on his Tumblr account in July. [19], In the wake of Nostalgia, Ultra, other artists took interest in Ocean and contacted him about working together, leading to collaborations on Channel Orange. [5] In an interview after Ocean's open letter, Malay called him "the new hybrid of what an MC used to be in the '80s or '90s ... the true storyteller" and said of the lyrics, "I don't think anyone during any given point during the creative process knew what was happening ... when he's singing maybe from a female perspective or whatever, it's a story, it's a world that he created. [120] It was named "Album of the Year" in HMV's Poll of Polls, an annual survey of British journalists from national print and online publications. I tried to channel overwhelming emotions. "[42] Ocean, a baritone,[43] sings with casually expressive vocals,[4] free-form flow,[44] conversational crooning,[45] and alternating falsetto and tenor registers. [26], Less melodic and hook-oriented than Nostalgia, Ultra,[35] Channel Orange features subtle melodies and articulation,[40] spatial arrangements,[41] and mid-tempo drum beats,[27] although the more ruminative songs feature slower tempos. Released early in June of 1970, the album was a hodgepodge of covers, live tracks, reinterpretations, and new songs greeted with negative reviews from all quarters of the press. As André 3000 recalled, "when I got the track, I just started writing to it and I was just, I'm just happy to be a part of that whole movement and his whole movement because he has become a whole 'nother kind of icon in today's age. [3] Its lyrics allude to philosophical conundrums, extraterrestrial life, Japanese manga comics,[38] and cotton candy. [17] He had a maid at the mansion and enjoyed amenities such as a pool and a sauna, but ended up recording only three songs there—"Lost", "Pyramids", and "Analog 2", a collaboration with fellow Odd Future member Tyler, the Creator. [68] It is about a girl that provides salvation and peace of mind for the narrator, who likens her to an island. [118] Slant Magazine's Jesse Cataldo hailed it as a "mosaic work ... so textured, complex, and mature that Ocean's recent coming out feels like a footnote". Did you install a browser extension (such as Realplayer/Realdownloader) that helps you download YouTube videos or other content? [38] Chris Richards of The Washington Post compared its melodic sensibilities to those of Gaye and Wonder, and its loose song structures to those of D'Angelo, Maxwell, and Erykah Badu. [5][nb 1] Malay recalled how he and Ocean were "somewhat oblivious to how quickly everything happened" and Ocean's name "continuing to get bigger and bigger" as they completed the album. Watch Diana Ross and Big Bird sing it on YouTube Bert and the Beanstalk a story you can read to your kids, was it a skit on the show? [51] According to Hayley Louise Brown from Clash, the songs are "interwoven by the ambient noise of middle America – video games, TV commercials, aeroplanes and car doors". If you are using a VPN, and other users of the same VPN are abusing the service, then you'll be automatically banned as well. [3][6], "Sweet Life" and "Super Rich Kids" depict decadent,[35] alluring rich people,[10] and are tied together by "Not Just Money", a spoken interlude with a woman discussing the importance of money on happiness. [6], Similar to Nostalgia, Ultra,[46] Channel Orange has interludes that feature sounds of organs, waves, tape decks,[26] car doors,[47] channel surfing, white noise,[48] and dialogue. "[10], According to music journalists, Channel Orange has an unconventional musical style,[26] with influences from psychedelic,[27] pop-soul,[28] jazz-funk,[29] and electro-funk genres. They added live drums to "Crack Rock", "Monks", and "Sweet Life", which was originally produced as a digital track. [103][104] Reviewers of the shows noted Ocean's low-key stage presence and observed crowd screams and audience members singing-along to songs. Customisable Itineraries. [4] An agreement was then reached to release a tentative follow-up album for 2012. "[25], Ocean and Malay mixed Channel Orange at Studio for the Talented and Gifted, and engineer Spike Stent mixed parts of the album at The Mix Suite in Los Angeles. Released 20 August 2016 on Blonded (catalog no. We are hoping to eventually work on a solution for this when we have the resources to do so. Who is Jacob Anthony Chansley? The [CDs] are done, but when we sent them in, they were locked down at the manufacturer. "[72], To prevent Channel Orange from leaking onto the Internet, Ocean planned to release it digitally one week earlier than its publicly announced date. 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[128] In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 148 on the magazine's revision to the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list. [3] It recounts the narrator's lust for a girl as a teenager,[41] and compares their relationship to the vicissitudes of Sierra Leone such as diamonds and civil war. [92] "Thinkin Bout You" became Ocean's highest charting single in the US, peaking at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100. They never went on trucks [to stores] because that's where things leak. In an essay for the poll, the newspaper's Eric Sundermann deemed the victory unsurprising as Ocean "dominated most music discussions this past year" and had an equalizing effect on listeners of all music genres. [42], At the end of 2012, Channel Orange was named the year's best album by numerous publications, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, The Sydney Morning Herald, Now, Paste, PopMatters, Slant Magazine, Spin, and The Washington Post. [5] For the latter track, they used the instrumental of the song of the same name from Odd Future's 2012 album The OF Tape Vol. "[10] Ryan Dombal from Pitchfork said Ocean exhibits "a timeless philosophy ... one of hard-won acceptance and the acknowledgement that love and sex and loss will always draw legends to them. [33] Sputnikmusic's Sobhi Youssef remarked that, although its production "pull[s] from a spectrum of popular modern and classic influences", they are used "within the 'constraints' of R&B without any singular genre taking over the record. [23] Ocean and Malay previewed songs to rock musician John Mayer, which inspired his guitar playing for both "Pyramids" and "White". gave it 8.9 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus. Frustrated with Def Jam Recordings' inactivity in his recording career, Ocean released his debut mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra online for free in February 2011. [8] In an interview for The Guardian, Ocean expressed uncertainty about his penchant for darker subject matter, but speculated that "those were the colours I had to work with on those days. Also "Oh! "[8], In June 2012,[4] news outlets and music journalists from pre-release listening events for Channel Orange raised questions about certain songs' lyrics and Ocean's sexuality. postboks 7240. [6][29] Randall Roberts of the Los Angeles Times categorized Channel Orange as a concept album about "the twentysomething experience in Los Angeles",[41] while Greg Kot interpreted the California setting to be "a state of mind in Ocean['s] world: numb, deceptively luxurious and self-satisfied, where the denizens live disconnected from one another and the world. Oder entscheiden Sie sich für unser Standard Paket und lesen Sie zusätzlich die digitale Ausgabe des Stadt-Anzeiger als E-Paper. [73] In November 2013, it was ranked at number nine on Complex magazine's list of "The 50 Best Pop Album Covers of the Past Five Years", with contributing journalist Dale Eisinger writing in an accompanying essay: "Ocean took a simple route with the cover … Employing the classic Cooper Black font — a staple of his Odd Future crew and hip-hop history, alike — next to a more modern, Sans-Serif font shows just how smart this dude is, looking back to the past, while clearly aware of his surroundings.