The Mystery of Channel Orange 

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The thing i love about this album is that it really lives up to the name and it feels like, with the help of the outros and interludes, that youre flipping through channels and each channel is a different story until ‘End’ where it just of course ends but its frank returning home to continue the stories another day and i dont get that kinda feeling with blonde (even though i still love it)

Nostalgia, ultra, channel ORANGE, Endless & Blonde are all great. Frank Ocean's a genius with his music & I hope he'll be a genius with fashion too. Blonde is my favorite album of all time because of how beautiful the music is, Frank Ocean is really one of the greatest artists of our time.

Crack Rock still hits…no pun intended. Like sometimes I just gotta sit in the car and let that one play.

I always relate to Bad Religion, Now, after watching the video I really appreciate what Frank did on the album even more

Your take on Frank's second verse of thinking about you is interesting. I hatve always taken it as him lying to the other guy. He is saying "I dont like you, i just thought you were cool enough to kick it. ("and if you believe that, ive got some beach front property in idaho to sell you" is an expression in America because Idaho is landlocked and has no beaches anywhere near it, Its basically calling someone gullible. He extends this further by telling them "i dont love you. i just thought you were cute. Thats why i kissed you" and then he lets the listener know he is lying again by saying "Ive got a fighter jet, i dont ever fly it though". Like when that guy always talking about the things he has that you conveniently never see him with (the cars, the beautiful gf, the money). It points to an insecurity and inability to vulnerable and honest. Almost like he pushes that person away as a form of self-sabotage or a fear of truly finding happiness or deserving happiness.

From the first time I listened to this album, I've always felt that there was a bigger story at play that I wasn't picking up on. This video perfectly explains everything I was wondering.

Top 5-10 album of that decade easily

Holy crap! This is a beautiful and profound album analysis. Like probably everyone who watched this, I’ve also listened to this album countless times, and I LOVE hearing other peoples theories on it and what it says about Frank as a human being. You’ve articulated ur own perspective so thoughtfully, that I now feel a renewed connected to the album, like waking up to a lover you’ve spent a lifetime with, and still being able to see them with from a new angle, a fresh expression, and falling in love all over again. I thank you

i also find it interesting how often cats are mentioned. in super rich kids, he mentions jaguars and in pyramids he mentions cheetahs. cute lil detail i liked.

My friends and I are planning a Frank stream day for the 10 year anniversary of the channel orange. We absolutely are in love with this man

I always thought it was about Nickolodeon

This album and Blonde have been on repeat since I've first head them. My Spotify stats from last year show That I was .01% of his listeners, he's just too good and hope to see him return someday.

what a great fucking video man. a lot of these essay style vids tend to be dragged out and share a pretty flippant perspective, but this was so much more personal and concise. also i love how the editing was kinda understated, and yet had a ton of attention to detail it's criminal u only have 19k subs, keep doin ur thing bro

Really like your analysis and breakdowns of the entire album. Even after years of listening to this album you've helped me see it in a new light. Looking forward to more videos from you bro

Bruv i literally just subscribed to you after watching your kiss land video and went on your channel to see that you just uploaded 1minute ago haha

Great review of a project that I hold very close to my heart. For me, the most important message of this great project, is not just how we lie to ourselves, and try to be something we aren't, because of social settings or expectations from those around us. But it's also about changes in our lives, how we go from one mood to another, one part of life to a different and new one, from a disasterous heartbreak to newfound love. This is what makes this album so nostalgic for a lot of people. The project makes you think about your whole life as a list of TV channels - Channels that showcase all of the highs and lows of what you have been through - And while some of those characters are not true to who you are now or even who you were at the time you played them, they are still a reflection of what you tried to be and who you desired to be. While one's deepest desire might be to be yourself and stay true to what you believe in, older versions of ourselves will inevitably become distant and often disgraceful memories, because we as people change. Only when we take a step back and try to learn from who we were, do we understand why we are whom we are. Channel Orange is Frank's reflections regarding everything he went through up till that point in his life. While he might not be proud of everything that happened and everything he felt pressured to become, it's all part of a greater life lesson, that will help him live a better life going forward.

This was so beautiful and my coming across this was so timely. Thank you!

Thank you so much for putting the background music info in the description

Great video btw! Love the editing and the clear , concise takes.

My man does not miss, yet another banger

Thank you so much for this, you made me learn so much more about my favorite album xxx

This made me love the album even more🥺❤

This album is such an important part of my musical autobiography and I have never known the meaning of it in depth like this. Definitely blew my mind. I have to stream.

Waiting for you to talk about Blonde someday. Would make for a banger video :)

Thanks for this video it’s perfect. Superb analysis

Sierra Leone and Sweet Life are top 2 off the album for me and criminally underrated imo

i bumped this album throughout time forever

Beautifully explained

Magical album!

What an amazing video❤️

I got so high one day and just listened to Frank and you can literally hear the ocean and waves and aquatic life when he sings

I listen to Doing It Stealthy when I'm experiencing existential dread. It makes it worse but... I just can't stop.

Frank is a genius

My Man, i fucking love you’re videos ❤️

Awesome video

ABOUT A WEEK AGOOO!!!

Its the bling ring clip you used for me ❤️

Really good video

Criminally underrated wtf

Very cool video

Thanks for braeking this down

4:45 this here is sadly what i am going through on life sadly cause there’s this one girl that i like who just thinks of me as a friend 😔

Like that one.. i'll hope Blonde comin soon :D

I like this point of view

Dope

channel Orange is the most complete album I’ve ever heard

Damn this video made me appreciate Chanel orange in a different way 🔥🐐

Franks must have synethesia just like me it literally paints and exposion of orange unexplainable to people who dont. If you listens to Steve lacy his sound is the same and it paints the same picture.

Chanel Organe will always be one of the greatest albums to me imo!

1:40 is exactly what I picture when I hear super rich kids

Everything in my life changed when I started listening to Doing It Stealthy by Oloff.

Where did you get this footage?

Anyone know where the clip of Thinking About You at 4:23 is from? Would love to watch the whole performance with John Mayer on guitar :)

where is 1:44 from

Deep 🍵

2:00

Pls do Dawn FM

You have to do one for Blonde now…

When did you listen to channel orange!?!

Make blonde album

Fucking amazing video

People ask me my favourite song... The answer is simple: Doing It Stealthy by Oloff.

this video gonna aged well

I miss him. Maybe unpopular opinion here but I would like to see him make a song with The Weeknd.

Doing It Stealthy is one of those songs that makes you ask.... why did God create us? What happens after we die?

Everyone keeps wandering when frank is going to drop a new album there will never be a new album 💿 blond is his statement why do you think that album is so addictive??? It’s 6yrs old and still is remains the same as if it was released today he is a legend the amount of replays I can never get bored or frank ocean a true blessing no homo but i really love frank he’s almost alien but sadly that’s the end of frank he done blond to fineness def jam and leave the industry he’s now doing what he always wanted but there’s something truly addictive about him and the fact he looks great with green and the robot baby? And teenage Cody ?? What’s going on who’s his bf lol and why does he seem so unreal like he’s the Statement. What’s your favourite 3 songs on blond ?

Santa has three lists: the naughty list, the nice list, and the Best Songs Ever list (featuring Doing It Stealthy by Oloff)

First

I listen to Doing It Stealthy by Oloff whenever I need therapy. Yeah I could pay $300 an hour for some college clown to tell me what to feel, or I could just smash great big fucking coconuts on my head and listen to my favourite song over and over again.

Frank being gay makes me like his music more

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not really a mystery but okay

unpopular opinion : endless > blonde

all you're saying is subjective and false, check your facts. I hate it when people make wrong subjective assumptions about something and call it true. it's not true just because you thought it. the album is about him, super-rich kids is about the people he frequented in LA I, He was inspired to write the song "Crack Rock" by stories he heard sitting in on Narcotics Anonymous and Alcoholics Anonymous groups mentored by his grandfather and Ocean titled the album in reference to his experience with grapheme-color synesthesia, a neurological phenomenon in which an individual's perception of numbers and letters is associated with the experience of colors.

I listen to Doing It Stealthy when I'm experiencing existential dread. It makes it worse but... I just can't stop.

Everything in my life changed when I started listening to Doing It Stealthy by Oloff.

People ask me my favourite song... The answer is simple: Doing It Stealthy by Oloff.

Doing It Stealthy is one of those songs that makes you ask.... why did God create us? What happens after we die?

I listen to Doing It Stealthy by Oloff whenever I need therapy. Yeah I could pay $300 an hour for some college clown to tell me what to feel, or I could just smash great big fucking coconuts on my head and listen to my favourite song over and over again.