He told W Magazine that he’d been “interested in club, and the many different iterations of nightlife for music and songs.” He went on to say ‘the things I look at now have a lot to do with those scenes: Detroit, Chicago, techno, house, French electronic…” This theory is supported by an interview that Frank did a few months prior to the singles dropping. Fans hypothesised that Frank could release a regular album and then a version of the album where every song was a club remix.
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The A side of ‘Cayendo’ was also stripped down and its B side was a remix by Sango. One of the songs was ‘Deal April’ which had an acoustic A side and a Justice remix on the B side. One of the more interesting theories comes as a result of those aforementioned vinyl releases by Frank. Another is that there were two versions of the album, something which Frank had previously played into with the dual release of Endless and Blonde. One of them is that the album was being formed in real time and Frank had added four songs to it by the release of ‘In My Room’. There are multiple theories about why each single had a different number of images. This would line up with a new album because both channel ORANGE and Blonde had 17 tracks on them too. However this time, there were four more images slotted in, totalling 17 images and potentially 17 tracks. The image in the centre of the ‘In My Room’ cover was indeed one of the smaller images on the ‘DHL’ cover. When ‘In My Room’ dropped, the theory was fuelled. Fans were quick with their theories and took this to mean that each image represented a single, or a song on the album. On the bottom right of the ‘DHL’ cover are 13 images, one of which is the image in the centre of the ‘DHL’ cover, which is highlighted. They were also excited by the cover art for both singles. When ‘DHL’ and ‘In My Room’ dropped, fans weren’t just excited because they were getting their first taste of new music since 2017. Whenever we get his new album, who knows if it will even be the same album from nearly two years ago? It’s somewhat still up in the air, but many believe that the parties, the new music and the merch was all part of the rollout to his brand-new album that was put on hold by the pandemic. Frank Ocean was the headliner on the final day, which fans took to mean that the new album had to be out before April when the festival was set to take place. In January of 2020, after Frank had signed a publishing deal with Warner Chappell, Coachella revealed their line up. It was more upbeat than ‘DHL’, but still far from the club music that fans had heard at the parties. In the early hours of the morning, Frank officially released another single, ‘In My Room’. Fans had so much music they didn’t know what to do with it all.
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At the next party, he debuted a song with Skepta. As far as his fans were concerned, the album’s campaign was upon us.Īt another PrEP+ party a few days later, Frank debuted even more music, this time a remix of SZA’s ‘The Weekend’. The show went live on Beats and fans rejoiced when Frank’s brand new single ‘DHL’ played. That was the way that fans got ‘Chanel’, ‘Provider’, ‘Biking’ and ‘Lens’, the post- Blonde loosies. This was big news for fans because it was the first episode of the year and a staple of the show was Frank debuting a new song of his at the end. Later that week, it was announced that blonded RADIO 008 was happening. With them expected to ship 8-12 weeks from the date of the order, it was as close to a confirmation of new music that Frank fans had gotten in a while. But the next day, more good news came.įrank updated his website with new merch and vinyl, the latter of which was for the songs that he played the previous night. Of course, with Frank’s reputation, we had no idea when we would actually hear it in studio form, if ever. The name was a reference to prophylaxis, a drug that helps prevents AIDS.Īt the party, Frank debuted some new music, though all most of the world heard was some snippets of it on social media. It was intended to “pay homage to what could have been of the 1908s’ NYC club scene if (HIV prevention drugs) had been invented in that area. In October of 2020, Frank hosted a PrEP+ party in New York City on the opening night of a queer club.