From Spotify Studios, welcome to dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible

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

On our last episode, we dissected a trio of songs that expounded upon the effects of wealth.

On the song's Sweet Life, we heard about an uncultured woman ignorant to the world

outsider-gated life in Ladera Heights. The skit, not just money, provided a sharp

contrast to Sweet Life, as we heard from a poor brother attempting to teach her son

the value of money.

The song Super-rich kids immediately follows, portraying a drug-abusing teen born into extreme wealth,

lonely and reckless because of his neglectful parents and superficial friends.

At the end of Super Rich Kids, the television motif appears once again as we hear Frank flipping

through channels. Frank lands on Pilot Jones, the next song on Channel Orange.

Pilot Jones is an extended metaphor as Frank characterizes his complex relationship with a drug-abusing woman.

She's addicted to drugs, and he's addicted to her.

He coins this woman, Pilot Jones, a name with several clever meanings.

Pilot, because like a plane in the sky, she gets him high with her love. Jones because he's addicted, he's

he's jonesing, and she is his dealer, his fix.

Throughout the song, he attempts to resist the woman,

much like a drug addict will attempt to resist their

addiction but the protagonist ultimately resigns by the song's end living in quote a condo on the cloud. Yeah, but I was above you.

But I'm missing so many ways.

But if I got a kind of one

Then I guess you can stay at my place.

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