Frank Ocean’s Coachella efficiency final Sunday (April 16) was so weird, starting with the truth that a lot of it occurred backstage, that some critics assumed it needed to be a deliberate, sensible deconstruction of expectations for competition headliners. Or one thing. Then Ocean himself stated it “wasn’t what I supposed to indicate” and canceled his efficiency for Coachella’s second weekend, a transfer his reps claimed was made on physician’s orders as a result of a leg harm. All in all, it wasn’t what anybody anticipated from his first efficiency since 2017, with the world nonetheless ready for a follow-up to 2016’s instant-classic Blonde.
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Within the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Tomás Mier (who lined the Coachella efficiency) and Simon Vozick-Levinson be part of host Brian Hiatt to debate the efficiency, Ocean’s attainable mindset, whether or not it’s OK to confess that even geniuses can have a foul evening onstage (the reply is “no” in keeping with Justin Bieber), and Ocean’s entire sensible and confounding profession thus far. Discover the episode right here on the podcast supplier of your selection, go on to Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or simply press play above.
We additionally talk about new particulars which have emerged, together with Rolling Stone‘s report that 100 ice skaters have been set to hitch the efficiency earlier than Ocean abruptly modified his thoughts (once more, his reps blamed a leg harm for any modifications.)
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