III-Music Analysis: Thinking Bout Me

Introduction
I- As Alfred Einstein once said, “I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music.”
II- Music is an escape for many of us, it transports us to other dimensions through its content allowing us to forget the burdens we have to carry.
III- Music can also set our mood, it can better or worsen it through the lyrics and tunes that can personally speak to us. Artists throughout the world excel in doing that with various genres. My personal favorite has always been R&B/soul with Frank Ocean on the top of the list.
IV- To introduce him briefly, the 27 year old was raised in New Orleans USA around the local jazz scene but was also inspired through the music that his mother used to play in the car as a young boy. He became an accomplished
3- The excitement grew further with the aim to release Nostalgia, Ultra as an EP. His first single ‘Novacane’ was released a month prior to the album and received huge success.

II- His first studio albums release and success.
A- Channel Orange released July 10, 2012
1- Was led by the single “Thinking Bout You”
2- Ocean personally stated that his songs are stories which he loves to tell combined with musical ambiances to compliment the story and glorify it.
3- It earned him six Grammy award nominations for his revolutionary approach to RnB and Soul.
4- The fact is, Channel Orange had odd songs with storytelling and commentary that got everyone’s attention. Most importantly, his songs about love got the most attention for he admitted to being bisexual right before releasing the album, which got him compared to the impact Bowie had in 1972 when he also told the world about his bisexuality.
B- Frank Ocean quickly rose to success as his album conquered at top two on the Billboard 200 selling more than 100,000 copies in its release week.
1- The album went on and got certified gold by the RIAA
2- This led to him initiating a summer tour all around the world naming it “You’re Not
A- He initiated his second studio album with help from the past and present 1- He got help from Pharrell Williams in the process
2- And had been listening to a lot of old time classics like the Beatles and The Beach Boys.
3- As his album was almost finishing in 2014, he revealed a song that was supposed to be on that album called “Memrise” that was said to have some melancholy in the melody.
4- With further delay, Ocean affirmed that his album would hit stores in July with no more details than that. Rumors came up that the album is to be called “Boys Don’t Cry”.
B- Time passed by, and people were still to hear about the album until he hinted with an image on social media that featured the supposed name “Boys Don’t Cry” and a date.
1- At 3 am on the first of August 2016 and to a huge surprise, Ocean revealed his visual album entitled Endless exciting the public even more as they awaited the studio album.
2- Endless was revealed at the end of a “Reddit AMA session” through an Apple music link.
3- Finally, people got a glimpse of the album through the release of a music video of a song with the title “Nikes” to anticipate the release of his