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I'm your host, Cole Kishk. Today we continue our serialized analysis of Channel Orange by Frank Ocean.

On our last episode, we discussed the importance of Ocean's open letter posted on

Tublers just days before the release of Channel Orange, as well as the opening track

start. There we heard a cryptic skit. of Channel Orange, as well as the opening track Start.

There we heard a cryptic skit that seems to portray a brief dream about Frank's first love,

followed by him turning on a television and playing Street Fighter.

Then we dissected the album's second track,

thinking about you, a heartfelt owed to an uninterested lover. There we speculated

that the song's subject was the same man Frank was dreaming about in the opening

moments of the album, establishing a theme of

remembering, longing, and by the distraction of a television, an attempt at forgetting.

Channel Orange continues with the track Fertilizer, which begins with the sounds of a television. The The first sound we hear is fighting noises from Street Fighter. Of course this was a game Frank began playing on the album's opening track, so it's safe to assume this is a continuation of that

narrative. The channel is then changed abruptly, and we hear a brief clip of a television program.

The channel is changed again, and the song Fertilizer begins playing.

This swingy catchy tune sounds like a commercial jingle and there's a filter placed on the track to make it sound as if it's playing from a television.

Performed by Ocean, Fertilizer is actually make it sound as if it's playing from a television.

Performed by Ocean, fertilizer is actually a cover of the song by James Fontoroy from his 2010

mixtape leading by example. Can I get you to cry, baby, if I tell you a lie,

I just need a reaction to keep it alive,

because I gotta got it in my heart and I can't survive without some kind of lies

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