From paving the way for out-and-proud Black performers like Lil Nas X, to letting us into his heart, and creating one of the best albums of all-time, Frank Ocean's ChannelOrange changed the world 10 years ago NewRetroWeek
, announcing he had romantic feelings for people of the same gender was an extremely rare event. And it was on aHe could have stayed mum, but Ocean announced his personal truth on his own terms without any idea how it would affect the trajectory of his rise.
“R&B felt like it was getting a little stale for a while, and all of the sudden [this] came along to turn that on its head,” music journalist Hugh McIntyre says. “It’s exciting when people do that in the genres to cause a significant shift in culture. How many artists today would not have a chance if he hadn’t shaken things up?”
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