S3E7 - Channel Orange Recap + 4 Years Gone

Dissect

Cole Cuchna

Music, Society & Culture, Arts

4.9 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We dissect the last three tracks from Frank Ocean's Channel Orange before drawing some overall conclusions about the album as a whole. Then we take a look at the events during the 4 years between Channel Orange and Frank's next albums Endless and Blonde. Listen to Dissect on Spotify for early access to episodes and exclusive bonus episodes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long-form musical analysis broken into short digestible
0:06.4	episodes. I'm your host Cole Kushner. Today we conclude our six episode mini series on Channel Orange by Frank Ocean.
0:24.0	On our last episode, we dissected the song Bad Religion, an emotional ballad about the pain caused
0:29.8	by unrequited love. Channel Orange concludes with three tracks we'll cover today in
0:34.3	broad strokes, Pink Matter, Forrest Gump, and the album's final track End. Pink Matter
0:40.0	was written by Frank Ocean, Malay, and Andre 3000 of the rap duo Outcast.
0:45.0	Its minimal sultry production and meditative tempo provide an elegant backdrop to
0:49.1	Ocean's philosophical rumination about the interplay between consciousness, sexuality, and pleasure.
0:55.0	Pink Matters opening verse begins with Frank posing a classic philosophical question,
1:00.0	to which an internal sensei replies. What do you think my brain is made for?
1:08.0	Is it just a container for the mind
1:11.0	this great great matter.
1:14.0	Since they replied what is
1:20.0	since they replied what is your woman?
1:24.0	Is she just a container for the child?
1:28.0	That soft pink my is cotton candy
1:34.0	my jean boa
1:36.0	oh
1:38.0	Frank Singh's what do you think my brain is made for
1:41.0	is it just a container for the mind, this great gray matter?
1:45.1	Frank here is evoking a timeless philosophical question known as the mind body problem.
1:49.9	While it's an ageless question too large to explore with any justifiable depth on our episode today,
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