@@-angelp I'm 22. I have my own opinion regarding this album. Even after 5 years I still don't like Nikes. I like the version with no pitched vocals that is on Yt somewhere more. It's hard to be a sadboi in 2023 😳
@@-angelpidk if it’s the age. Now that Brads channel is getting bigger it’s just reaching a more general audience that only have good opinions on generic music completely detached of what they actually personally want from it.
I like blonde as much as anyone else, but jeez was chat being super cringe about brad not being super into it at first. “You need to make memories with it” like what a terrible qualifier to have for liking an album lmao
I agree, chat was. But that’s a good qualifier to liking an album. Way easier to understand an album in context. Like you not gonna get the full experience of a sad album if you are really happy in life atm. You won’t love a really happy album if you are at a low point. Context matters, memories matter. I remember I didn’t love Ants from up there the first 5 times, but I listened to it on an hour long train ride, no distraction. Staring out the window, and suddenly it made sense.
It reeks of extreme cope. Like you need to do the legwork of having an emotionally charge experience to appreciate it rather than just, you know, having the music be emotionally powerful from jump? Many other artists can do that, hell, Frank does it on this album so its an awful excuse
@@mocapcow2933 I don't know, if music is good it's good. I agree sometimes it's not immediate but I still think "you have to have memories" is nonsense. If anything it's the other way around. People find an album and then like "have a moment" where they get it. I had that fittingly with For the First Time. Didn't like it particularly then came back to it and I saw it from a different angle. Wasn't any kind of special thing, I just suddenly got what it was about. No "special memories" really. And sometimes you just find music in the "right space". Yung Lean's Warlord will forever be tied to the November weekend I found the Miami Ultras music video on YT because I was entirely there for it. I guess it did hit easier because of that but I feel like I would've liked it either way
this album and In Rainbows are on an entirely different plane in the list of my favourite albums of all time. I love other music of course, but that top 2 has never changed since I heard both albums, they're just both so special to me
For me "white ferrari" and "seigfried" are also really emotional and I would say on the same level as ivy. It's kinda hard to choose. One thing I know is that "solo" will always be my comfort song
The chat is becoming slowly like Fantano's, for better and for worse(mostly for the worse) good God. 😅 But Brad still manages to be so entertaining, man. We love you so much.
Pretty Sweet is one of my favorite songs. Ik that's a weird pick but idk one day I heard it and it just clicked. The sound just resonated with me for some reason. I feel like I'm speeding through the city on a motorcycle at night when the drums come in.
Honestly I feel like a really good time to get into it is when you’re feeling melancholic or just downright sad 😹 throw on nights , white Ferrari, seigfreid, etc. took me a while to get into it too
im admittedly someone who has blonde firmly in the top 5 Albums of all time, but one thing I love about this album that's hard to put into words is how many odd and just downright creative elements there are in some of these songs. When listening to music idk why but I've always gotten meta about the creation of the music itself and thinking of the process and there's so many moments throughout this album where I just bask in how ballsy and often weird some of the choices that are made on this album are. Little vocal quips that sound technically rough as hell but just add awesome emotion, weird musical stabs that happen in soft moments like the end of White Ferrari, just so many little quirks that I have grown to enjoy so much after this many years of enjoying the album. Not for everyone and that's fine, but I love it.
This is very late but maybe you’ll both see, but his hair is green because if you bleach your hair and go swimming, it’ll make it that bright green he is rocking in the cover
Solo is my favorite off the album. It has some of Frank’s best singing and storytelling he’s ever done. Genuinely one of the most beautiful and ethereal songs I’ve ever heard.
Nikes took the longest to grow on me but it really is a great intro. Great way to set the tone and also everytime I hear it everyone sings along and gets into the mood its great but hard to appreciate on first listen. Just like chill and watch Frank have fun freestyling and not taking things to seriousy
I avoided Blonde for like a year or two, just randomly put it on one day and enjoyed it because I was working and driving a lot that day. Really good driving music. I liked it.
Honestly, I think Nikes is one of the better songs from 2016. The reverb-y vocals, minimalist beat, and ethereal synths make me feel like I’m in space. I love it :)
i listened to this album twice on shrooms throughout the house speakers of a lake house vacation home. listening to the backhalf of this album while sitting on a screened in porch overlooking sunset as the sunset reflected on the lake water was unlike anything ill ever experience again. incredible album.
while "you have to make memories with it" is a dumb thing to say is required to enioy any piece of music, i kinda get what they might mean, Blond feels like growing up to me, it's about lost love and finding yourself and all the complicated emotions inbetween, i remember first listening to it, and i discover new feelings and emotions within it as i mature and it's meanings change
I didn't really like blond that much on first listen apart from a couple songs but as I listened to it more it grew on me. its one of my favorite albums of all time now
Wild that someone suggested Self Control in the greatest songs of all time video and Brad dismissed it, just to give it a 10 a year later. Things you love to see.
might be worth considering that the first half felt more digestible to you because you'd heard it before with more interest. music often makes a lot more sense on a 2nd or 3rd listen, and with how you described your initial experience with the album, it seems like you weren't really taking it in after the first few songs originally, so a lot of the 2nd half was like a first listen for you
most of this album is absolutely phenomenal for me, some songs are a little lackluster/nonsensical but still pretty enjoyable. it’s just experimental enough to be more flavorful than a standard 2010s R&B album, but doesn’t stray too far from what makes the genre good to keep plenty of Normies convinced that this is a 12/10 they’ve been looking for their whole lives (usually because of nostalgia around the time this came out, I myself am not immune to that bias but at least I admit it). Solo, Seigfried, Skyline To, White Ferrari, Ivy, pink+white, Nights (my favorite), and even slow ass Nikes are just super pretty and quotable, with simple and sweet yet still interesting production, and frank just fits in super nicely on each track. Futura Free gets an honorable mention for its wacky production. but since you have a different opinion than me i’m disliking, unsubbing, doxxing you, deleting your RU-vid channel, stealing food out of your fridge and turning your twitch channel into a hot tub channel.
What’s also interesting about this album is its cover. It is inspired by Barbara Krueger‘s ‚Your life is a perpetual insomnia‘. The artwork‘s haunting title ties in beautifully with the themes throughout the album an can be interpreted further.
I was 15 years old, my 18yr old bf left me saying it was bc of leaving town to go to university, but I saw him in a club with his ex gf (18yrs also) and blonde and endless leaked at the day of my 16's birthday. (I was a crazy teen, broken home). Man, I was deeply deppresed, listening over and over again. Listening to good guy, feeling used (I had my first hetero-time with him) and start drinking, smoking and doing all kind of dumb things. "You don't care for me, but he cares for me and that's good enough" Today I'm 22, more than 1 year clean thanks to my bf's (who is my age lol) support and also studying lyrical singing. I think endless is way better than Blond, sadly ain't in Spotify, I think is in Apple store. But definitly Blond was with me until age 18 or 19, like deeeeep in my core. Now I think is a little anoying in the ears, like a balance is needed, maybe is because I'm a recent music student, maybe is just bland. I'll give my final word in 10 years more when I already lived with a fully developed frontal lobe. (Sorry for my bad english, btw.)
As someone who loves Frank I think you should listen to channel orange as well I think it is a more approachable album and it has honestly had more lasting appeal than blond but also that’s just me
It took me a few listens to appreciate it. I didn’t like the pitched up vocals, and I still don’t love them now, but without them the ending wouldn’t hit as hard.
I thought I was the only one. I think it probably will have grown on me since, but I gave it a 4/10 after two listens Edit: oh it grew on him. I really need to revisit this thing
@@colloquially same for me. It's an 8.5 for me but it would have been a 10 if it weren't for those interlude tracks. Those just really cut the flow for me and I really don't revisit or really enjoy them as much as the core tracks on the album. That being said the main narrative tracks on the album are 10/10
I thought it was boring when it came out too and now I barely listen to it BUT it does have some amazing songs in there. Pink + White is a masterpiece. I was super hyped for it because I was obsessed with channel orange.
This album p much consists of songs that are a 8-10/10 or is full on red headphones to me. There is no in between on blonde and that’s why this album is awesome.
To each their own, but from what I've seen with Brad he doesn't seem to like alternative r&b a whole lot. He panned Nectar from Joji and tbh I like that album a lot, might just be a genre he doesn't love
I personally hated Blonde. It was way too long and so fucking full of itself. There were so many confusing decisions and it felt like whoever was making this was learning how to do their job as they were going along. There was no purpose to any of the decisions made and I can’t believe anyone defends it. Oh, you were talking about the album and not the movie. The album was aight.
People who don’t like blonde when they hear the most beautiful atmospheric experience in a song followed with ballad like instrumental closures for almost every track.
to be honest, i didn't love Blond at first as well gave it like a 6 at my first listen. i didn't appreciate those ad libs those squeaky sounding high pitched vocals, etc. but it grew on me and now i consider it as the greatest rnb album of this era, a masterpiece. some people feel it and some don't.
the second part of the album is my favorite, mainly because it reminds me deeply of someone special. I think if i didn't have these feelings it wouldn't be that great but I'm glad I do
