channel ORANGE. some say it's the most important album since "miseducation of lauryn hill". i agree. frank has an amazing way of telling a deep story that you won't deeply understand until you read back over the lyrics on rap genius. songs like "sierra leone" frank talks to a fictional younger version of himself who fooled around and got a girl pregnant. while songs like "bad religion" initiates a makeshift therapy session in the backseat of a cab, pouring all his feelings out to the arabic taxi driver. i like to look at channel ORANGE as a rare species. everything stood out to me from the short 60's type interlude "fertilizer" all the way to the digital booklet images. you can tell the label let frank have his space and create his story's. there will never be another organically artistic artist as talented as frank ocean. he separates himself from everyone. the album cover fits so well because less always ends up being more. especially with the music that is attached to this. everyone expected more as an album cover and got less, which ended up being more because it left you curious of how and why the cover was so normal? since frank's music is soooo different. but instead that's what make frank so different, you have no idea what to expect and when to expect it. something i wanted to point out was the last song on the album "end". it had the most meaning to me, no one will realize that frank and the girl was having sex to voodoo in his car. the random scene you can here is from atl. yes the movie. after sex to frank's song "voodoo" in the car the girl tells him how great he is. there’s something wrong, but frank doesn't feel like talking about it with this girl. he seems insecure. he leaves the car and goes into his house, closing the door behind him. the car could be from the pyramid video that frank dropped via tumblr, which you can see the car in the video is parked beside a house which could be frank's. that could be what "end" relates to. it could all relate to the letter he wrote and posted on tumblr as well and could possibly be a continuation into another project. all in all, i'm glad i've got the chance to witness channel ORANGE. i get to tell the story on how i was alive and witnessed the day it released to the world. decades from now this album is going to be in discussions as the album that saved a genre. orange is the color of liberation, to channel orange is to channel yourself, be free, be you.

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