Well done, Frank! Next is the 2013 Grammy's! :) There will be no One Direction. Zoe Saldana, introduced his performance and even she too was excited to see him perform. She was one of the many artisits who turned to twitter after the performance to give Frank the praise he deserves. I was left dumbfounded at the end of the performance, which was clearly the best of the VMAs for me.Įven Lady Gaga tweeted, 'she died' after watching this performance. You could feel the pain in that falsetto, you could feel Frank 'thinking about' whoever this person was, who was his first.
I thought he was going to do 'Bad Religion' or Sweet Life or something but he stuck to the song most people know, but gave it a new spin. With a simple bonfire setting and the house lights dimmed, Mr Ocean took that stage and commanded that stage Barefoot in a black suit and his trademark head band. Frank opted to go with just an accompanying guitar and that boy sang his heart out of that song 'Thinking About You'. I was eagerly anticipating Frank Oceans first performance at an awards show and boy was I not disappointing. When you break it down, the track has two parts. Pyramids is definitely Frank Ocean ‘s most ambitious and epic song to date. A very interesting video to say the least. Ladies and gentlemen, prepare yourself for ten minutes of pure listening pleasure. It switches to another doomed romance between the protagonist pimp and his lonely strip club worker girl, whom he calls Cleopatra. The song begins with a dream of the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Cleopatra and her ultimate betrayal. He starts walking his motorcycle comes into focus, he walks past it and onto the desert road with the 'End' or outro from Channel Orange playing in the background. The Pyramids Songfacts says: This 10-minute R&B odyssey finds Ocean singing of both ancient Egypt and the present day. Then the last section is a John Mayer guitar solo with an obviously high Frank just starring at him.Īt the end of the solo Frank falls back on to the ground and then raises from the desert floor, his face covered in dust. Then cut in and out of strip club and the desert highway scene. Then boooooom he is the strip club and we are introduced to a couple of Cleopatras, some of them are almost naked.ĭancing on poles, dancing for dirty old white & Asian men. With trailing white lines following him, I guess to symbolize that he is high. syke) He then hops onto a motorcycle and the next thing we know he is in a desert. It is a long video and in classic Frank style he does not lip sync, he starts off shooting up a bar (Pink Matter intro. I was hoping it would be Sweet Life or Pink Matter, maybe even Bad Religion. So, there you go.It is about time Frank Ocean releases a video for Channel Orange. UPDATE: Allegedly, John Mayer plays the guitar solo on “Pyramids,” which probably explains why he was in the studio with Frank a while back.
It’s a funky, blown-out pop opus with multiple parts, a song that showcases Ocean’s brilliant, idiosyncratic vision. Hours after a new album announcement, Frank Ocean took to his Tumblr to post the nine-minute “Pyramids,” a slice of which we heard in the initial teaser.