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title: "How Much Do You Love Frank Ocean’s New Album?"
description: "Oh. Right."
date: "2016-08-06"
modified: "2016-08-06"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/4742/how-much-do-you-love-frank-oceans-new-album"
categories:
  - "Culture"
  - "News"
  - "People"
tags:
  - "Frank Ocean"
  - "Music"
  - "r&b"
---

# How Much Do You Love Frank Ocean’s New Album?

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The Internet has (once again) whipped itself into a [collective frenzy](<https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/frank-ocean-is-the-last-superstar-to-value-time-and-secrecy-drake-kanye-west-adele-the-life-of-pablo-a7172006.html>) over the new Frank Ocean album, *Boys Don’t Cry*. Reports [earlier this week](<https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/arts/music/frank-ocean-boys-dont-cry-apple-release-date.html?_r=0>) suggested that the album, years delayed, would finally drop Friday, August 5, on Apple Music. But, as of this writing (10:40 p.m. EST), everything's silent on that front. There's still a possibility the R&B scion will slip it under deadline at 11:59 p.m. If you've been following the soap opera surrounding *Boys Don’t Cry*, or have ever been a Lauryn Hill fan, you know the pilot light of hope will be extinguished soon.

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**Frank Ocean**

We all care about all this, of course, because Frank Ocean is a prolific musician and also a weirdo car guy. His debut studio album, *Channel Orange*, and landmark mixtape *Nostalgia, Ultra* are arguably the decade’s most inventive works. And after the latter dropped, Ocean set to building a cost-no-object sleeper BMW 3-Series, [converting his old E30 to right-hand drive](<https://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=271130&highlight=frank+ocean>), and dropping a modern M3 engine between the fenders. When [*GQ*](<https://www.gq.com/story/frank-ocean-interview-gq-december-2012?currentPage=1>) caught up with him in 2012, Ocean and his crew did the photoshoot surrounded by an immaculate selection of old European metal. His songs are chock-full of car references, both sly and and overt. Listen to these lyrics, and also watch the screen in the background:

https://youtube.com/embed/guJK8Bd5qLU

Brilliant. But Ocean is the deeply-afflicted (some might say "pretentious") artist type. While his music is inarguably fantastic, it all moves along on his timeline. And, sometimes, it just feels like outright trolling. Dude has a [huge chip on his shoulder](<https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/magazine/frank-ocean-can-fly.html?_r=3&>) from getting jerked around by the record industry early in his career. He takes a lot of pleasure in returning the favor.

So maybe we'll get a new Frank Ocean album soon. Maybe we won't. Maybe he’ll just [livestream](<https://metro.co.uk/2016/08/01/frank-ocean-has-been-cutting-wood-on-a-live-stream-for-hours-and-people-have-lost-it-6042394/>) [his transformation into a woodworking apprentice](<https://metro.co.uk/2016/08/01/frank-ocean-has-been-cutting-wood-on-a-live-stream-for-hours-and-people-have-lost-it-6042394/>). Who knows? That's part of the game. In the meantime, here's “Swim Good” off *Nostalgia, Ultra*...

https://youtube.com/embed/PmN9rZW0HGo

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