{"id":2443041,"date":"2019-04-16T11:51:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T17:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=823065"},"modified":"2019-04-16T11:51:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T17:51:30","slug":"frank-ocean-on-the-music-business-youre-going-to-be-deflowered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/frank-ocean-on-the-music-business-youre-going-to-be-deflowered\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Ocean on the Music Business: \u2018You\u2019re Going to Be\u2026 Deflowered\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Frank Ocean<\/a>\u2018s contempt for the music industry is Shakespearian in its scale and complexity. The singer\u2019s infrequent interviews are often mystifying, so brief and controlled that they\u2019re often meaningless, but his weathered hatred for the music business is a comforting constant. In Gayletter\u2019s<\/a> latest cover story, Frank explained the abstract ways artists can protect themselves by comparing the industry to being violated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, fucking with major music companies, you\u2019re going to be\u2026 deflowered,\u201d Ocean said. \u2018Anytime you get into the business side of the arts, there has to be some degree of objectification or commodification that you\u2019re comfortable with, of yourself and of your work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know about purity. It depends on what you want,\u201d he continued. \u201cA lot of people I talk to about careers in the music industry, their ideas of success have to do with nostalgia. They have to do with tropes of success, things they\u2019ve been shown over the years that represent what a successful career is. I think that helps you become prey, because somebody can manipulate you with those things. Then you may get to a point in your experience where you become disillusioned with those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ocean\u2019s contentious relationship Def Jam<\/a> is well-documented. Tricky Stewart helped sign the young R&B act, but admitted to The Fader<\/em><\/a> in 2016 that the move was a \u201cdisaster\u201d and that \u201cthe label wasn\u2019t motivated by the signing.\u201d With the release of Endless<\/em>, Ocean was free of his obligation to Def Jam, buying back his masters and releasing Blonde<\/em> independently. It\u2019s clear he\u2019s still holding a grudge.<\/p>\n

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Frank Ocean\u2018s contempt for the music industry is Shakespearian in its scale and complexity. The singer\u2019s infrequent interviews are often mystifying, so brief and controlled that they\u2019re often meaningless, but his weathered hatred for the music business is a comforting constant. In Gayletter\u2019s latest cover story, Frank explained the abstract ways artists can protect themselves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 09:28:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}