Fans consider Frank Ocean has been importing a few of his previous music on to Spotify below an alias
The person blondead has thus far uploaded three Ocean fan favourites from his 2010, 70-track compilation ‘The Lonny Breaux Collection’.
Three tracks ‘miss you so’, ‘bedtime story’ and ‘sucka for love’ have thus far been uploaded to stream from the artist web page.
The songs match the tracks ‘Miss You So’, ‘Bedtime Story’ and ‘Sucka for Love (Alternate Version)’.
Ocean’s official Spotify account at present solely has a choose portion of his discography on the platform that includes main studio albums ‘Blonde’ and ‘channel ORANGE’ however older data corresponding to ‘The Lonny Breaux Collection’ and ‘nostalgia, ULTRA’ are usually not formally out there to stream.
“how did i not clock frank ocean been uploading old music on spotify under a different moniker,” wrote one fan on Twitter, upon recognizing the tracks.
Another added: “Oh my GOD sucka for for love is finally on Sportify – Frank is hilarious for n this – not Blondead.”
how did i not clock frank ocean been importing previous music on spotify below a unique moniker
— s ☆ (@certishaz) March 7, 2023
Oh my GOD sucka for love is lastly on Spotify – Frank is hilarious for this – not Blondead 🤣😭 pic.twitter.com/nY5rWi8F5i
— Oyin 🍯🐝 (@Oinks28) March 8, 2023
these previous frank ocean songs being randomly uploaded on spotify pic.twitter.com/ulN3h5sdUF
— tot (@togashisangel) March 8, 2023
Meanwhile, Ocean just lately hinted on the arrival of a brand new album in a promotional poster from his newest merch drop earlier this yr.
In the six years for the reason that launch of 2016’s lauded ‘Blonde’ LP, Ocean has shared numerous one-off singles together with ‘DHL’, ‘In My Room’, ‘Cayendo’ and ‘Dear April’. He has additionally occasionally hinted at a brand new album however nothing has materialised but.
On the brand new poster, a passage of textual content tells the story of a “fictitious Recording Artist” – seemingly Ocean – and a shelved 2019 photoshoot together with the artist and Succession actor Jeremy Strong.
It goes on to elucidate how Ocean most popular “the singles distribution model as opposed to the long-form album model,” including that the album is “outdated” and that releasing singles is “more suited to modern consumption habits”.
However, the top of the passage hints that Ocean has now completed a U-turn from favouring singles releases to preferring the album once more.
It reads: “The Recording Artist has since changed his mind about the singles model, and is again interested in more durational bodies of work.”
Ocean can also be attributable to headline Coachella 2023 in April, suggesting that new music might arrive earlier than the present.