Thursday, September 6, 2012

Frank Ocean's VMA Perfornance

Over the past year or so i started to listen to some songs by well known artist Tyler, The Creator. At first I didn't exactly like his style of music, how he seemed to be so satanic with all of his songs like "Yonkers" and "She".
Yonkers Music Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4_VwADxyis

However after listening to a couple more of his songs his music sort of grew on me, with his use of odd literary devices to describe himself, for example "Imma f***ing walking paradox, no I'm not." and also his, (at times) funny lyrics. 
After listening to more and more songs about Tyler, I soon discovered the group he created known as Odd Future, with the members being made up of Tylers good friends from back in highschool, one of which who's music really caught my attention. That one member happened to be Frank Ocean.
The first Odd Future song that I heard was "Oldie" basically a big collaboration with all of the artists from Odd Future. At first you know I thought it was a pretty good song, and then I heard Frank Oceans verse and I thought to myself, this guys good. 
Oldie- Odd Future

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzi24Nssiow

However after looking him up he didnt have his own album or anything like that, just some stuff here and there. Then last summer, he came out with his debut album, Channel Orange, and I absolutley loved it especially "Thinkin' Bout You" 
Thinkin' Bout You- Frank Ocean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHXI6AzJi2E

Then just last night Frank Ocean performed that very song live at the VMA's, but with a little twist
Frank Ocean 2012 VMA Performance- Thinkin Bout You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLxZlGxFCNw

In the VMA performance, he used an acoustic guitar as the beat, however in the original he used a different more electronic beat. I personally thought that his performance was amazing at the VMA's but I also really like the original beat. Let me know what you think the better beat for "Thinkin Bout You" is.

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