Is frank ocean bi or gay
Frank Ocean helped me understand my bisexuality
I am 20 years ancient. Since puberty I have consistently had sexual fantasies about both men and women. I had a special kind of small sexual confidence — I was utterly disgusted by my want for men, because I saw sex between men as inherently less than sex between men and women. I was ashamed of my desires for women, because I believed I was worthless and no woman would ever want me; I could never prove myself as a true man, i.e. someone who fucks women and is fine at it. I’m still utterly petrified of sex with women, and embarrassed of my desires for men, but I don’t have any hangups about the concept of having sex with them.
I’d been having conversations about whether Frank Ocean would free a new album for at least a year, but I never thought it would own real significance for me. Somehow, I knew I had desires for men, but I had never had that moment where I said: yes, I’m bi. It’s surprising how (relatively) happily you can live a recline. I had mental health issues, but my sexuality wasn’t making my life a living hell, it was tuck
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I woke up Saturday morning to the buzz of Twitter set aflame and opened Apple Music to hear Frank Ocean sing the words “My guy pretty appreciate a girl.” As he repeated “I see both sides like Chanel,” I screamed.
This was it.
This was everything I’d been waiting for.
Aside from being an extremely enjoyable record, “Chanel” is Frank Ocean’s boldest bisexual statement to date.
We’ve known for a while that Frank likes men after his Tumblr note revealed his first love was a man. He wrote that he had loved women before, but that none of those relationships compared to his &#;first love.&#; While people were quick to label Frank as gay or double attraction, Frank has never position either label on himself over the past six years. From a hip-hop perspective, his version of coming out was historic, but that note proved it was obvious that Frank himself didn’t yet know how he felt.
Frank’s queer experiences have transferred over to his song, with songs about both men and women, but he always kept each song exclusive to one gender or neither. “Forrest Gump” is about
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The album that followed was Channel Orange, a body of work that served as the soundtrack to his ‘coming out’ a powerful project that saw him say openly of his love for a man. ‘You jog my mind boy’ he sang on Forrest Gump, the album’s most overt exploration of Frank’s sexuality. ‘You're so buff and so strong, I'm nervous, Forrest’, he continued. Then there’s the self-deprecation on , a song that sees Frank battle the demons of unrequited same-sex like in the support of a cab. ‘Taxi driver, I swear I've got three lives / Balanced on my chief like steak knives / I can't tell you the truth about my disguise / I can't trust no one.’ He sings, ‘I can never make him treasure me.’
Like his start letter in July , Frank Ocean’s Channel Orange was perfectly undefinable. Flirting with soul, funk and electronic styles without ever turning its back on R&B. It was also a masterclass in songwriting, with each composition showcasing a flair
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 male lover – not on national television, but in a shyly poetic, sideways upload on his Tumblr. ‘Four summers ago, I met somebody,’ Ocean wrote. ‘I was 19 years aged. 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 morning I’d see him, and his smile. I’d listen his conversation and his silence [] until it was time to nap. Sleep I would often share with him. By the time I realized I was in adoration, 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.
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