Frank Ocean Explodes
OCEAN SIZE: Red-hot Def Jam/IDJ R&B crooner Frank Ocean’s major label debut, Channel Orange, which is set to debut next week with 110-125k as an iTunes exclusive (see hitsdailydouble.com story here), is also the subject of a front-page L.A. Times story today by pop music critic Randall Roberts here. The article focuses on Ocean’s controversial “coming-out” on his Tumblr blog, and his addressing several love songs on the new album to a man. Wrote Roberts: “With his decision to address lust for another man on his new album, 24-year-old Frank Ocean has become something other than one of the most dynamic R&B singers and songwriters of the last half-decade: He's become, for the moment, one of the first to challenge a genre known for its acidic intolerance of homosexuality.” The album is getting similar rave reviews from everyone who's heard it. Do we hear Grammy momentum starting to build? (7/11p)
VMAs BEAMING BACK
TO THE BIG APPLE Getting back to where they once belonged (4/24a)
THE COUNT: ALL THE DESERT'S A STAGE
Jon Wayne is rolling over in his grave. (4/24a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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