Channel
Orange - Frank Ocean album
Channel Orange changed my life and ideas for many reasons. The
album has a huge focus on unrequited love and the human experience of being in
love. This theme ties in well with the time of the release of the album. In 2012
Frank Ocean released his ‘coming out’ letter regarding his sexuality. This engaged
with me emotionally because it opened my mind to how successful people who you
think have no problem in life, can face the struggle of personal experience
just as any normal person, such as coming out.
The lyrics throughout the album emphasises the contrast of
love and pain. The song “Forest Gump” focuses on his love for a man, putting
himself in the shoes of Jenny from Forest Gump and looking at their lover’s
accomplishments, the way Jenny is proud of all of Forest’s accomplishments.
This changed my opinion on how deeply love affects people and how love means
not only being attracted to the person on the outside but supporting them
throughout the relationship.
The album also focuses on the negatives of love and how it
has affected Frank Ocean. The song “Thinkin ‘Bout You” expresses his feelings
about a past relationship with love, which has turned out undesirably. This engaged
with me emotionally because it made me think how our first time falling in love
affects us, whether it is encouraging or damaging. He talks about love being an
experience, as much as it is a feeling and how we experience love and how it
can be magical or deteriorating.
The album has changed my media consumption because it makes
me interpret the meaning of lyrics differently, and how they have a deeper
meaning than what it actually said in the text. This is often with songs, I now
engage more with music and it has also opened my mind to music and how
different genres can be brought together.
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