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  Why Frank Ocean's Coming Out Tumblr Post Is as Complex and Deep as His Lyrics

  July 5, 2012 – In the twilight hours of Independence Day, Frank Ocean published an excerpt from the liner notes of his forthcoming album: a tender tale of a man he once loved, who wouldn’t admit it was reciprocal until three years later. "based god was right," he wrote, "we're all a bunch of golden million dollar babies. my hope is that the babies born these days will inherit less of the bullshit than we did. …
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  Frank Ocean Hints at 'Channel Orange' Release in Sleek Video, 10-Minute 'Pyramids' Track

  June 8, 2012 – Frank Ocean has unveiled a new project titled Channel Orange, set for July 17. …
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  Frank Ocean Has a Cold

  April 17, 2012 – Frank Ocean is a dreamboat — soft eyes, strong jaw, swoony gap teeth, quiet intellect. But on this balmy November evening, his suit jacket's looking kinda tight. …
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  Coachella 2012: Pulp, Frank Ocean, Refused Lead Friday's 10 Best Sets

  April 14, 2012 – Didn't make it to Coachella but want to know what you missed? Heading to Coachella's first-ever second weekend and need to know who to catch? In addition to our list of 30 must-see acts at this year's fest, SPIN has compiled a rundown of each day's 10 best sets. Start your journey here and then read up on Saturday's top shows and Sunday's greatest performances. …
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  Odd Past: Frank Ocean Sings Backstreet Boys' 'PDA'

  April 9, 2012 – You think you have a bad boss? Somebody made the putative genius who created last year's gorgeous, free-wheeling nostalgia, Ultra mixtape feel like he oughta be doing this. Fashionably Early has dug up a recording of Frank Ocean, pre-"Frank Ocean," belting out a song that ended up on a post-reunion Backstret Boys album, and though he gives it his supple best, the results are soberingly craven. …
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  Musicians Rally Around Death of Trayvon Martin

  March 26, 2012 – As Vibe reports, Frank Ocean, Diddy, Swizz Beatz, Nelly, Ludacris, and Jamie Foxx have all posted photos of themselves wearing hooded sweatshirts on their social media accounts to protest the death of 17-year-old African-American high school student Trayvon Martin, who was gunned down by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman for looking "suspicious" (he was wearing a hoodie, but was unarmed) in Florida on February 26. …
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  Hear Frank Ocean's Sumptuous 'OF Tape 2' Ballad 'White'

  March 16, 2012 – The tracks to surface from Odd Future's long-awaited OF Tape Vol. 2 so far, "Rella" and "NY (Ned Flander)," have mostly been in keeping with the L.A. hip-hop crew's familiar shock-rap template, accompanied with harsh beats, child-abuse jokes and woman-smacking videos. Enter Frank Ocean. "White," the mixtape's only solo joint, is different, and grandly so. "Could this be Earth? / Could this be light? …
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  Coldplay Invite Frank Ocean on Tour (Rather Than Suing Him)

  March 5, 2012 – While Warner Music Group was busy threatening Frank Ocean for performing his reinvented rendition of the Eagles' "Hotel California" last week, another artist the up-and-coming R&B singer "re-imagined" on his 2011 free debut nostalgia, Ultra was doing the opposite: Coldplay, whose song "Strawberry Swing" (from 2008's Viva La Vida, on EMI Records) appears "Oceanified" as nostalgia's nostalgia-heavy opening track, announced today that Fran …
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  Warner Music, Not Don Henley, Threatened to Sue Frank Ocean

  March 1, 2012 – As we reported earlier this week, on Tuesday night Frank Ocean told his Tumblr following Don Henley had threatened to sue him over his use of the entire master track for the Eagles' classic "Hotel California," which Ocean reinvented as his own "American Wedding," an elegy to the hypocrisy of Western culture's ideas of love and marriage. Now SPIN has learned that wasn't exactly the case. …
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  Don Henley Finally Threatens to Sue Frank Ocean for 'American Wedding'

  February 28, 2012 – Frank Ocean shared bummer news with his Tumblr following today. Don Henley — the Eagles frontman and co-writer of the song "Hotel California," which Ocean reinvented on his lauded 2011 album Nostalgia, Ultra as "American Wedding" — has done what we all expected since the second Ocean dropped the album: He threatened to sic his lawyers on the R&B hotshot should he croon "Wedding" ever again. …
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