S3E15 - White Ferrari by Frank Ocean
Dissect
Cole Cuchna
4.9 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2018
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The steakhouse stack, with two beef paties, crispy onions and peppercorn sauce is the kind of McDonald's you take photos of to put pride of place on the mantelpiece. |
| 0:07.6 | Sure you'll need to make room, but you remember what your wedding day looked like. |
| 0:11.6 | The steakhouse stack, it's McDonald's and then some. |
| 0:14.4 | Available until the 6th of February, sir from 11 a.m. subject to availability, |
| 0:18.8 | participating in restaurants only. From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible episodes. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm your host Cole Kishol. Today we continue our serialized examination of Blonde by Frank Ocean. |
| 0:43.2 | On our last episode we dissected the first four tracks on the album's second half |
| 0:47.4 | noting a sharp contrast in theme, mood, and musical environment |
| 0:51.1 | when compared to the warmer more nostalgic qualities of the first half. |
| 0:55.0 | This shift in tone continues to gain prominence with the album's next track, |
| 0:58.7 | the subject of today's episode, White Ferrari. I'd love to talk on these rides. |
| 1:07.0 | Mine on the road. |
| 1:11.0 | You're dilated eyes watch the clouds flow white Ferrari White Ferrari is written by Frank Ocean, Malay, and Cony West. Due to the |
| 1:26.8 | interpolation of the Beatles song Here, There and Everywhere, John Lennon and Paul |
| 1:30.8 | McCartney are also credited writers on the track. |
| 1:33.9 | The song's title is a nod to the Italian Sportscar Company Ferrari. |
| 1:37.9 | As we've heard in our examination of Blond thus far, cars are a pervading presence throughout |
| 1:42.0 | the album. Their presence is a reflection of presence throughout the album. |
| 1:43.0 | Their presence is a reflection of Ocean's real life passion for automobiles. |
| 1:47.0 | And whereas hip-hop tropes typically find cars used to peacock wealth and symbolize economic status, |
| 1:52.0 | cars for Ocean are personal, defining artifacts of different periods in his life, |
| 1:57.2 | characters that seem every bit inseparable from Frank's memory as friends and location. |
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