S3E18 - Season Finale: Blonde by Frank Ocean
Dissect
Cole Cuchna
4.9 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 82 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. |
| 0:16.4 | Available into the sixth of February, sir from 11 a.m. subject to availability, |
| 0:18.8 | participating 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 Kushman. Today we conclude our season-long analysis of Blond by Frank Ocean. On our last |
| 0:44.2 | episode we unpack Blond's final track Futura-Free, a song that functions |
| 0:49.0 | similar to the rolling credits at the end of a film. We find Frank reflecting on the contrast of his life |
| 0:54.4 | before and after finding success while droning piano chords and Frank's |
| 0:58.3 | pitched up voice helped to evoke and amplify Frank's nostalgic ruminations. |
| 1:02.8 | I was being honest, I say long as I can fuck three times a day and not skip a meal |
| 1:10.5 | I'm good. I used to work on my feet for seven dollars an hour come |
| 1:15.1 | my mama like mama I'ma I'm making minimum wage mama I'm on mama I'm on |
| 1:19.9 | now I'm making four hundred six, 800 K, mama, |
| 1:24.4 | to stand on my feet mama. |
| 1:25.9 | Play these songs, it's that repeat mama, they're paying me mama. |
| 1:29.3 | I should be paying them. |
| 1:30.7 | I should be paying your line |
| 1:32.5 | it's to God. |
| 1:36.0 | On our previous episode, we had reached the end of the song |
| 1:39.7 | portion of Futur Free, noting that the full track is perfectly divided in half by the silence that appears |
| 1:45.3 | after the song portion and before the closing sound collage of home recordings. |
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