S3E12 - Skyline To + Self Control by Frank Ocean
Dissect
Cole Cuchna
4.9 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Cole Kushner. Today we |
| 0:19.0 | continue our serialized analysis of Blond by Frank Ocean. On our last episode, we |
| 0:24.4 | dissected the song solo, a series of lyrical vignettes that accumulated into a |
| 0:28.8 | multifaceted exploration of the word solo and a meta-examination of the internal push-pole relationship |
| 0:34.7 | between the heaven and hell within us all. Blonde continues with a malephless |
| 0:39.1 | portrait of summer romance, the brief but beautiful, skyline too. |
| 0:43.0 | On comes the evening, |
| 0:47.0 | gold seeking ends, |
| 0:51.0 | peace in my hand worth twice than a friend |
| 0:57.8 | and two limbs over shoulder |
| 1:00.8 | doesn't you are carried away. |
| 1:06.2 | Skyline II was written by Frank Ocean, Tyler the Creator and Christoph Chassol. |
| 1:11.6 | Along with writing and arrangement credits, Chassol plays keyboard and the |
| 1:15.4 | Moog solo featured in the song's bridge. Frank heard about the French composer Christoph Chassol, |
| 1:20.9 | by way of the in which the human voice and sounds from nature are treated like melodic instruments and are harmonized with keyboards and various other instruments. |
| 1:37.0 | Music is God. |
| 1:40.0 | My love. |
| 1:42.0 | Music is God. |
| 1:45.0 | My love. |
| 1:46.0 | Music is God. |
| 1:48.0 | My love. |
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