I Gave Blonde a 5/10 || BTiM
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- This is true. Today I re-listen to the album and see if anything has changed
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Tracklist:
Intro 0:00
1. Nikes 3:51
2. Ivy 7:22
3. Pink + White 10:55
4. Be Yourself 14:31
5. Solo 16:03
6. Skyline To 21:26
7. Self Control 23:27
8. Good Guy 26:58
9. Nights 27:41
10. Solo (Reprise) 30:55
11. Pretty Sweet 31:22
12. Facebook Story 32:35
13. Close to You 32:48
14. White Ferrari 33:49
15. Seigfried 35:14
16. Godspeed 38:16
17. Futura Free 39:59
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Favorite Tracks: Ivy; Pink + White; Be Yourself; Solo; Self Control; Nights; White Ferrari; Seigfried; Godspeed
Least Favorite Track: Nikes
8/10 - Hudba
Brad: *starts listening to album*
Chat: "this is amazing" "best song" " 10/10 album"
Brad: *fake snores to signify boredom*
Chat: "MID OCEAN" "😴🛏" "zzzz"
Goofy ahh chat
I wanna know the average age of his chat
@@-angelp I'm 22. I have my own opinion regarding this album. Even after 5 years I still don't like Nikes. I like the version with no pitched vocals that is on Yt somewhere more. It's hard to be a sadboi in 2023 😳
@@-angelpidk if it’s the age. Now that Brads channel is getting bigger it’s just reaching a more general audience that only have good opinions on generic music completely detached of what they actually personally want from it.
@@-angelp 12
Goofy chat
I like blonde as much as anyone else, but jeez was chat being super cringe about brad not being super into it at first. “You need to make memories with it” like what a terrible qualifier to have for liking an album lmao
I agree, chat was. But that’s a good qualifier to liking an album. Way easier to understand an album in context. Like you not gonna get the full experience of a sad album if you are really happy in life atm. You won’t love a really happy album if you are at a low point. Context matters, memories matter. I remember I didn’t love Ants from up there the first 5 times, but I listened to it on an hour long train ride, no distraction. Staring out the window, and suddenly it made sense.
It reeks of extreme cope. Like you need to do the legwork of having an emotionally charge experience to appreciate it rather than just, you know, having the music be emotionally powerful from jump? Many other artists can do that, hell, Frank does it on this album so its an awful excuse
Felt like the chat was so divided in this video, Half of them begging him to like it the other half hatin on it just to look cool
@@kingoftropes922 No, like there is only few and Im mean *few* albums that can get you Powerful from the first listen.
@@mocapcow2933 I don't know, if music is good it's good. I agree sometimes it's not immediate but I still think "you have to have memories" is nonsense. If anything it's the other way around. People find an album and then like "have a moment" where they get it.
I had that fittingly with For the First Time. Didn't like it particularly then came back to it and I saw it from a different angle. Wasn't any kind of special thing, I just suddenly got what it was about. No "special memories" really.
And sometimes you just find music in the "right space". Yung Lean's Warlord will forever be tied to the November weekend I found the Miami Ultras music video on YT because I was entirely there for it. I guess it did hit easier because of that but I feel like I would've liked it either way
“I would never cry to a frank ocean song, like be honest i am a man”
“But i look after you”😖
"These btches want nikes"😭😭😭
First note of Nikes plays: 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
"Balls sticking to my jeans"
“White leaf on my boxers”😣
Took me a couple of listens to really understand the scope of the album, and I absolutely adore it now. Brings back so many memories
Based Relationship of Command pfp
I still can’t get into it and I was in line for the Magazine he dropped
@Piccolo that is fine you can't please everyone
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no u just got gaslit into thinking it was good after hearing all these drones praise it. It dont work on me tho.
The Nikes slander honestly needs to stop.
Sidenote, this chat is seriously lacking in good father figures.
They view brad as their father figure
terrible chat
i hope this changes with the member only chat lol
if you can pay for a membership i think you're old enough to act like an actual person with opinions
Nikes got no hate until brad didn’t like it. People gotta have their own opinions
@gnome from pinkerton not a joke but okay mr gnome
2:34 best out of context clip
Someone needs to clip that out of context
Based brad
@@The_Ajna Based pfp
@@uut4354hell yeah part 7 too goated
@@The_Ajna facts
this album and In Rainbows are on an entirely different plane in the list of my favourite albums of all time. I love other music of course, but that top 2 has never changed since I heard both albums, they're just both so special to me
Damn for me it is blond and kid A
In Rainbows is amazing
you are literally me
i love the resurgence of In Rainbows, it's such a unique feeling album
its simultaniously dirty and perfectly clean
for me its In Raimbows and Lift Your Skinny Fists
Ivy is such an incredible song. I love a lot of the cuts here but that song is so insane it kinda blows the rest of the album away for me
facts
For me "white ferrari" and "seigfried" are also really emotional and I would say on the same level as ivy. It's kinda hard to choose. One thing I know is that "solo" will always be my comfort song
Brad taste in character development
The chat is becoming slowly like Fantano's, for better and for worse(mostly for the worse)
good God. 😅
But Brad still manages to be so entertaining, man.
We love you so much.
Pretty Sweet is one of my favorite songs. Ik that's a weird pick but idk one day I heard it and it just clicked. The sound just resonated with me for some reason. I feel like I'm speeding through the city on a motorcycle at night when the drums come in.
Yes bro Pretty Sweet is so good. Wasn’t into it at first but one day it just clicked me for as well.
pretty sweet is the HARDEST song on this album
Glad it grew on you. Love this album
he and fantano have the same exact rating, favorite songs and least favorite songs, IS THAT A COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Yes, yes it is
Yeah this dude dick rides Fantano so hard it’s embarrassing, constantly changing his opinions to be his shadow
@@hotrodlikestoparty he had blonde at a 52 for 6 years and he relistens and changes it and you say he's mirroring him? It ain't 2018 bro he ain't dick riding noone
ah yes brad would react to an entire album on stream just try and say the same opinions as fantano.
@@killar1one do you know that im not being serious
im admittedly someone who has blonde firmly in the top 5 Albums of all time, but one thing I love about this album that's hard to put into words is how many odd and just downright creative elements there are in some of these songs. When listening to music idk why but I've always gotten meta about the creation of the music itself and thinking of the process and there's so many moments throughout this album where I just bask in how ballsy and often weird some of the choices that are made on this album are. Little vocal quips that sound technically rough as hell but just add awesome emotion, weird musical stabs that happen in soft moments like the end of White Ferrari, just so many little quirks that I have grown to enjoy so much after this many years of enjoying the album. Not for everyone and that's fine, but I love it.
while "you have to make memories with it" is a dumb thing to say is required to enioy any piece of music, i kinda get what they might mean, Blond feels like growing up to me, it's about lost love and finding yourself and all the complicated emotions inbetween, i remember first listening to it, and i discover new feelings and emotions within it as i mature and it's meanings change
it's been very hard for me to get into this album and it honestly makes me really sad because i feel like i'm missing out on something
You are
Honestly I feel like a really good time to get into it is when you’re feeling melancholic or just downright sad 😹 throw on nights , white Ferrari, seigfreid, etc. took me a while to get into it too
it took me like a year after my first listen to start liking it
you either like it or you don't it's as simple as that
greatest album of all time
The Art of Peer Pressure.
Solo is my favorite off the album. It has some of Frank’s best singing and storytelling he’s ever done. Genuinely one of the most beautiful and ethereal songs I’ve ever heard.
Don't know why the album is called "blonde" when the guy in the cover clearly has green hair🤔
He had to dye it blond before he dyed it green…
This is very late but maybe you’ll both see, but his hair is green because if you bleach your hair and go swimming, it’ll make it that bright green he is rocking in the cover
This was always the take of yours that hurt me the most. This redux is everything I could've wanted. Thank you Brad for seeing the light.
Frank Ocean really made me feel like I was floating in an ocean with this album
I felt like my name was Frank listening to this
I've listend to Blond 106 times
help
Listen to songs in the key of life
Can't wait for all of AOTY to be like "erm... acktually... blond isn't that good 🤓" now thanks brad
I avoided Blonde for like a year or two, just randomly put it on one day and enjoyed it because I was working and driving a lot that day. Really good driving music. I liked it.
I wish I could hear the Nights beat switch for the first time again.
Average fantano take with the Nikes slander
Nikes pitch shifting is awful
@@thelucasshow4970 blocked
Nikes took the longest to grow on me but it really is a great intro. Great way to set the tone and also everytime I hear it everyone sings along and gets into the mood its great but hard to appreciate on first listen. Just like chill and watch Frank have fun freestyling and not taking things to seriousy
It took me YEARS to like this album. But when it got, I'd listen to it everyday.
I have a soft spot for low tempo music like this and more often than not Frank Ocean hits that spot for me.
Low temple?
Honestly, I think Nikes is one of the better songs from 2016. The reverb-y vocals, minimalist beat, and ethereal synths make me feel like I’m in space. I love it :)
remember when you were blonde brad
Never happened. Take your pills!
i really enjoy brads wild take on this album, pointing out the faults i had with it
seeing brad almost cry is something i never thought i would see
It’s not the first time
watch his reaction to the bends album
i popped into chat on this stream because this is a top 5 album of mine, and they were all shittin on everything. literally devastated.
This album hits hard when you're feeling upset
I second this; this album acts as a form of catharsis whenever I feel vulnerable
This makes me so happy
This album is known for taking a few listens to get. It’s very subtle.
i didn’t like it on the first couple listens , but it grew on me a lot over time. one of my favorites for sure
brunette should be the title of brads new mixtape
might be worth considering that the first half felt more digestible to you because you'd heard it before with more interest. music often makes a lot more sense on a 2nd or 3rd listen, and with how you described your initial experience with the album, it seems like you weren't really taking it in after the first few songs originally, so a lot of the 2nd half was like a first listen for you
A good album to cry to is what I define this album as
What’s also interesting about this album is its cover. It is inspired by Barbara Krueger‘s ‚Your life is a perpetual insomnia‘. The artwork‘s haunting title ties in beautifully with the themes throughout the album an can be interpreted further.
It took me 30 times before I liked the project. Now it's my favorite R&B album of the 2010s.
Yesssssss do channel orange!!! It also took me a while to like blonde but now it’s one of my faves
I just got done watching the vod 😭
great approach
its definitely an album you,ve got to listen to multiple times to get into
I thought it was boring when it came out too and now I barely listen to it BUT it does have some amazing songs in there. Pink + White is a masterpiece. I was super hyped for it because I was obsessed with channel orange.
This is Brad's version of giving MBDTF a 6/10
lol i gave this album a 7 a few years back & got absolutely flamed for it😂i relate with you brad
yo @Witch Flowers hope ur doing better, i lost my aunt in october and music really helps
I didn't really like blond that much on first listen apart from a couple songs but as I listened to it more it grew on me. its one of my favorite albums of all time now
Now do IGOR and you might be excused for the Greenville incident of 1985
doing my job getting this video to a million likes brad
nikes hit for me first listen, i like it better than some songs in the latter half of the album, but overall, this album is gold to me. love love love. also the features r fire, jonny greenwood, beyonce, andre 3000, pharrel came through with bass on pink and white, dank.
"Many collage students have gone to collage"
I felt that one fr fr
could you just do cuts instead of speeding up the song, i prefer the older editing quite a bit
As someone who loves Frank I think you should listen to channel orange as well I think it is a more approachable album and it has honestly had more lasting appeal than blond but also that’s just me
I'm still at that point where I don't like it much but I'm sure I'll get into it after another few listens
the second part of the album is my favorite, mainly because it reminds me deeply of someone special. I think if i didn't have these feelings it wouldn't be that great but I'm glad I do
As long as you enjoy self control Brad...
“Blond” is the album version of Mac’s coming out dance from It’s always sunny.
picturing brad eating a big cookie like a kid
nikes is awesome idgaf
Looking forward to the Channel Orange video
The end of IVY is the strings of a piano being torn out
Never been able to get into this album, but I guess it's a "vibe" album..I need some tunes and hooks!!
typical brad W
Wild that someone suggested Self Control in the greatest songs of all time video and Brad dismissed it, just to give it a 10 a year later. Things you love to see.
Yeah I remember that bro...
YES BRAD.
Chat is so skitzo god dam
U still got that jid- the forever story reaction? Would love to See react to it
This is exactly how I was when I first tried Blonde. I gave it a 5 and now on relistens, I gave it an 8. Funny how that works.
thats why you hsvr to listen to this two times
i listened to this album twice on shrooms throughout the house speakers of a lake house vacation home. listening to the backhalf of this album while sitting on a screened in porch overlooking sunset as the sunset reflected on the lake water was unlike anything ill ever experience again. incredible album.
0:29 brad taste in gaslighting
Blonde is a 10/10. Great stream lmao chat is hilarious though.
Yippie u like my favorite album :3
Ive never listened to blonde, what do you guys think of it?
NOO BRAD NOOO NIGHTS AND CHANEL ARE A 10/10
Still waiting on that channel orange reaction 👀
This album p much consists of songs that are a 8-10/10 or is full on red headphones to me. There is no in between on blonde and that’s why this album is awesome.
Someone finally said it
2:31 me and my friends on the group chat
This my favorite album ever
to be honest, i didn't love Blond at first as well gave it like a 6 at my first listen. i didn't appreciate those ad libs those squeaky sounding high pitched vocals, etc. but it grew on me and now i consider it as the greatest rnb album of this era, a masterpiece. some people feel it and some don't.
Always loved this album and always will but I respect your opinion! (Sleep with one eye open)
Ayy im in this one yessirrrr
Chat was wild on this one lmao
I thought I was the only one. I think it probably will have grown on me since, but I gave it a 4/10 after two listens
Edit: oh it grew on him. I really need to revisit this thing
💀 bro switched up so fast
@@void8656 lol nah I just need to revisit it. This reminded me to do so
probably a 9/10 for me
woulda been a 10/10 if not for nikes and futura free and the three interludes
I gave it a 4/10 too and I've revisited it multiple times across the past few years.
@@colloquially same for me. It's an 8.5 for me but it would have been a 10 if it weren't for those interlude tracks. Those just really cut the flow for me and I really don't revisit or really enjoy them as much as the core tracks on the album. That being said the main narrative tracks on the album are 10/10
Solo (Reprise) best song on the album.
did he mention blonda? I would love to see brad react to some toasty digital works
This is kind of one of those albums you have to in a certain "state of mind" to really feel, if you get what I mean.
most of this album is absolutely phenomenal for me, some songs are a little lackluster/nonsensical but still pretty enjoyable.
it’s just experimental enough to be more flavorful than a standard 2010s R&B album, but doesn’t stray too far from what makes the genre good to keep plenty of Normies convinced that this is a 12/10 they’ve been looking for their whole lives (usually because of nostalgia around the time this came out, I myself am not immune to that bias but at least I admit it).
Solo, Seigfried, Skyline To, White Ferrari, Ivy, pink+white, Nights (my favorite), and even slow ass Nikes are just super pretty and quotable, with simple and sweet yet still interesting production, and frank just fits in super nicely on each track. Futura Free gets an honorable mention for its wacky production.
but since you have a different opinion than me i’m disliking, unsubbing, doxxing you, deleting your CZcams channel, stealing food out of your fridge and turning your twitch channel into a hot tub channel.
Why would you make his twitch better?
People who don’t like blonde when they hear the most beautiful atmospheric experience in a song followed with ballad like instrumental closures for almost every track.
I was 15 years old, my 18yr old bf left me saying it was bc of leaving town to go to university, but I saw him in a club with his ex gf (18yrs also) and blonde and endless leaked at the day of my 16's birthday. (I was a crazy teen, broken home). Man, I was deeply deppresed, listening over and over again. Listening to good guy, feeling used (I had my first hetero-time with him) and start drinking, smoking and doing all kind of dumb things.
"You don't care for me, but he cares for me and that's good enough"
Today I'm 22, more than 1 year clean thanks to my bf's (who is my age lol) support and also studying lyrical singing. I think endless is way better than Blond, sadly ain't in Spotify, I think is in Apple store.
But definitly Blond was with me until age 18 or 19, like deeeeep in my core. Now I think is a little anoying in the ears, like a balance is needed, maybe is because I'm a recent music student, maybe is just bland. I'll give my final word in 10 years more when I already lived with a fully developed frontal lobe.
(Sorry for my bad english, btw.)
I skipoed Ivy SOOO many times lol
Isn't it funny somebody scream TATTOO EYELINER ON A FACELIIIIIIIFT
I sometimes listen to Pink + White. I like, but don't listed to: close to you, night's drop jeje, Seingfried and Godspeed.
Hablas español?
@@francodiaz14 Siiii, malditasea
u gotta do channel orange next
To each their own, but from what I've seen with Brad he doesn't seem to like alternative r&b a whole lot. He panned Nectar from Joji and tbh I like that album a lot, might just be a genre he doesn't love
I personally hated Blonde. It was way too long and so fucking full of itself. There were so many confusing decisions and it felt like whoever was making this was learning how to do their job as they were going along. There was no purpose to any of the decisions made and I can’t believe anyone defends it.
Oh, you were talking about the album and not the movie.
The album was aight.
The album was more than aight.
Look ma I'm in the Brad video!