Brad: *starts listening to album* Chat: "this is amazing" "best song" " 10/10 album" Brad: *fake snores to signify boredom* Chat: "MID OCEAN" "😴🛏" "zzzz" Goofy ahh chat

I like blonde as much as anyone else, but jeez was chat being super cringe about brad not being super into it at first. “You need to make memories with it” like what a terrible qualifier to have for liking an album lmao

“I would never cry to a frank ocean song, like be honest i am a man”

The Nikes slander honestly needs to stop. Sidenote, this chat is seriously lacking in good father figures.

Took me a couple of listens to really understand the scope of the album, and I absolutely adore it now. Brings back so many memories

this album and In Rainbows are on an entirely different plane in the list of my favourite albums of all time. I love other music of course, but that top 2 has never changed since I heard both albums, they're just both so special to me

The chat is becoming slowly like Fantano's, for better and for worse(mostly for the worse) good God. 😅 But Brad still manages to be so entertaining, man. We love you so much.

Ivy is such an incredible song. I love a lot of the cuts here but that song is so insane it kinda blows the rest of the album away for me

2:34 best out of context clip

Brad taste in character development

Pretty Sweet is one of my favorite songs. Ik that's a weird pick but idk one day I heard it and it just clicked. The sound just resonated with me for some reason. I feel like I'm speeding through the city on a motorcycle at night when the drums come in.

he and fantano have the same exact rating, favorite songs and least favorite songs, IS THAT A COINCIDENCE I THINK NOT 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Glad it grew on you. Love this album

im admittedly someone who has blonde firmly in the top 5 Albums of all time, but one thing I love about this album that's hard to put into words is how many odd and just downright creative elements there are in some of these songs. When listening to music idk why but I've always gotten meta about the creation of the music itself and thinking of the process and there's so many moments throughout this album where I just bask in how ballsy and often weird some of the choices that are made on this album are. Little vocal quips that sound technically rough as hell but just add awesome emotion, weird musical stabs that happen in soft moments like the end of White Ferrari, just so many little quirks that I have grown to enjoy so much after this many years of enjoying the album. Not for everyone and that's fine, but I love it.

while "you have to make memories with it" is a dumb thing to say is required to enioy any piece of music, i kinda get what they might mean, Blond feels like growing up to me, it's about lost love and finding yourself and all the complicated emotions inbetween, i remember first listening to it, and i discover new feelings and emotions within it as i mature and it's meanings change

Don't know why the album is called "blonde" when the guy in the cover clearly has green hair🤔

The Art of Peer Pressure.

Solo is my favorite off the album. It has some of Frank’s best singing and storytelling he’s ever done. Genuinely one of the most beautiful and ethereal songs I’ve ever heard.

it's been very hard for me to get into this album and it honestly makes me really sad because i feel like i'm missing out on something

Can't wait for all of AOTY to be like "erm... acktually... blond isn't that good 🤓" now thanks brad

Average fantano take with the Nikes slander

This was always the take of yours that hurt me the most. This redux is everything I could've wanted. Thank you Brad for seeing the light.

I've listend to Blond 106 times

Frank Ocean really made me feel like I was floating in an ocean with this album

Honestly, I think Nikes is one of the better songs from 2016. The reverb-y vocals, minimalist beat, and ethereal synths make me feel like I’m in space. I love it :)

remember when you were blonde brad

I avoided Blonde for like a year or two, just randomly put it on one day and enjoyed it because I was working and driving a lot that day. Really good driving music. I liked it.

Nikes took the longest to grow on me but it really is a great intro. Great way to set the tone and also everytime I hear it everyone sings along and gets into the mood its great but hard to appreciate on first listen. Just like chill and watch Frank have fun freestyling and not taking things to seriousy

I have a soft spot for low tempo music like this and more often than not Frank Ocean hits that spot for me.

It took me YEARS to like this album. But when it got, I'd listen to it everyday.

I wish I could hear the Nights beat switch for the first time again.

This album is known for taking a few listens to get. It’s very subtle.

i popped into chat on this stream because this is a top 5 album of mine, and they were all shittin on everything. literally devastated.

This album hits hard when you're feeling upset

nikes is awesome idgaf

Yesssssss do channel orange!!! It also took me a while to like blonde but now it’s one of my faves

brunette should be the title of brads new mixtape

i didn’t like it on the first couple listens , but it grew on me a lot over time. one of my favorites for sure

could you just do cuts instead of speeding up the song, i prefer the older editing quite a bit

It took me 30 times before I liked the project. Now it's my favorite R&B album of the 2010s.

Now do IGOR and you might be excused for the Greenville incident of 1985

i listened to this album twice on shrooms throughout the house speakers of a lake house vacation home. listening to the backhalf of this album while sitting on a screened in porch overlooking sunset as the sunset reflected on the lake water was unlike anything ill ever experience again. incredible album.

seeing brad almost cry is something i never thought i would see

i really enjoy brads wild take on this album, pointing out the faults i had with it

might be worth considering that the first half felt more digestible to you because you'd heard it before with more interest. music often makes a lot more sense on a 2nd or 3rd listen, and with how you described your initial experience with the album, it seems like you weren't really taking it in after the first few songs originally, so a lot of the 2nd half was like a first listen for you

0:29 brad taste in gaslighting

A good album to cry to is what I define this album as

This is Brad's version of giving MBDTF a 6/10

NOO BRAD NOOO NIGHTS AND CHANEL ARE A 10/10

I didn't really like blond that much on first listen apart from a couple songs but as I listened to it more it grew on me. its one of my favorite albums of all time now

What’s also interesting about this album is its cover. It is inspired by Barbara Krueger‘s ‚Your life is a perpetual insomnia‘. The artwork‘s haunting title ties in beautifully with the themes throughout the album an can be interpreted further.

nikes hit for me first listen, i like it better than some songs in the latter half of the album, but overall, this album is gold to me. love love love. also the features r fire, jonny greenwood, beyonce, andre 3000, pharrel came through with bass on pink and white, dank.

As someone who loves Frank I think you should listen to channel orange as well I think it is a more approachable album and it has honestly had more lasting appeal than blond but also that’s just me

lol i gave this album a 7 a few years back & got absolutely flamed for it😂i relate with you brad

This album p much consists of songs that are a 8-10/10 or is full on red headphones to me. There is no in between on blonde and that’s why this album is awesome.

To each their own, but from what I've seen with Brad he doesn't seem to like alternative r&b a whole lot. He panned Nectar from Joji and tbh I like that album a lot, might just be a genre he doesn't love

Chat is so skitzo god dam

I personally hated Blonde. It was way too long and so fucking full of itself. There were so many confusing decisions and it felt like whoever was making this was learning how to do their job as they were going along. There was no purpose to any of the decisions made and I can’t believe anyone defends it. Oh, you were talking about the album and not the movie. The album was aight.

most of this album is absolutely phenomenal for me, some songs are a little lackluster/nonsensical but still pretty enjoyable. it’s just experimental enough to be more flavorful than a standard 2010s R&B album, but doesn’t stray too far from what makes the genre good to keep plenty of Normies convinced that this is a 12/10 they’ve been looking for their whole lives (usually because of nostalgia around the time this came out, I myself am not immune to that bias but at least I admit it). Solo, Seigfried, Skyline To, White Ferrari, Ivy, pink+white, Nights (my favorite), and even slow ass Nikes are just super pretty and quotable, with simple and sweet yet still interesting production, and frank just fits in super nicely on each track. Futura Free gets an honorable mention for its wacky production. but since you have a different opinion than me i’m disliking, unsubbing, doxxing you, deleting your KZfaq channel, stealing food out of your fridge and turning your twitch channel into a hot tub channel.

I was 15 years old, my 18yr old bf left me saying it was bc of leaving town to go to university, but I saw him in a club with his ex gf (18yrs also) and blonde and endless leaked at the day of my 16's birthday. (I was a crazy teen, broken home). Man, I was deeply deppresed, listening over and over again. Listening to good guy, feeling used (I had my first hetero-time with him) and start drinking, smoking and doing all kind of dumb things. "You don't care for me, but he cares for me and that's good enough" Today I'm 22, more than 1 year clean thanks to my bf's (who is my age lol) support and also studying lyrical singing. I think endless is way better than Blond, sadly ain't in Spotify, I think is in Apple store. But definitly Blond was with me until age 18 or 19, like deeeeep in my core. Now I think is a little anoying in the ears, like a balance is needed, maybe is because I'm a recent music student, maybe is just bland. I'll give my final word in 10 years more when I already lived with a fully developed frontal lobe. (Sorry for my bad english, btw.)

I'm still at that point where I don't like it much but I'm sure I'll get into it after another few listens

I thought it was boring when it came out too and now I barely listen to it BUT it does have some amazing songs in there. Pink + White is a masterpiece. I was super hyped for it because I was obsessed with channel orange.

2:31 me and my friends on the group chat

Wild that someone suggested Self Control in the greatest songs of all time video and Brad dismissed it, just to give it a 10 a year later. Things you love to see.

This makes me so happy

I mean you didn't liked IGOR so I'm not so surprised you didn't liked this 🤣

“where’s the beat” 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

Bro got green hair, not yellow. Bro isn’t blond, he has aluminum poisoning.

The end of IVY is the strings of a piano being torn out

“Blond” is the album version of Mac’s coming out dance from It’s always sunny.

I just got done watching the vod 😭

As a huge blond fan I agree Nikes is boring and not rly as sad or as good sounding as people make it out to be

white ferrari is forever top 3 on here

15:57 n-word

This is exactly how I was when I first tried Blonde. I gave it a 5 and now on relistens, I gave it an 8. Funny how that works.

although you go poopoo family - Nights

"Many collage students have gone to collage" I felt that one fr fr

ngl i’ve listened to blonde like 4 different times front to back and i have never enjoyed it. It honestly feels like nothing new to me and i’m not sure why. I want to get the hype and appeal behind the album but i never can

How can Nikes be his least favorite, who doesn’t like Nikes lol

its definitely an album you,ve got to listen to multiple times to get into

Solo (Reprise) best song on the album.

This is kind of one of those albums you have to in a certain "state of mind" to really feel, if you get what I mean.

Never been able to get into this album, but I guess it's a "vibe" album..I need some tunes and hooks!!

picturing brad eating a big cookie like a kid

As long as you enjoy self control Brad...

Looking forward to the Channel Orange video

Still waiting on that channel orange reaction 👀

to be honest, i didn't love Blond at first as well gave it like a 6 at my first listen. i didn't appreciate those ad libs those squeaky sounding high pitched vocals, etc. but it grew on me and now i consider it as the greatest rnb album of this era, a masterpiece. some people feel it and some don't.

doing my job getting this video to a million likes brad

You're thinking about it too much as a straight narrative its more just a collection of memories that all kind of add to the theme of growing up

🍫⭐🐟

loads of new people in chat start just being influenced by what brad thinks turning into a “w or l” kind of chat Idk just something ive noticed

His least favorite and favorite tracks are the same as fantano's, I guess he's a huge fan of the big melon huh

Blonde is a 10/10. Great stream lmao chat is hilarious though.

yo @Witch Flowers hope ur doing better, i lost my aunt in october and music really helps

I thought I was the only one. I think it probably will have grown on me since, but I gave it a 4/10 after two listens Edit: oh it grew on him. I really need to revisit this thing

Ive never listened to blonde, what do you guys think of it?

typical brad W

chat is fatherless

the second part of the album is my favorite, mainly because it reminds me deeply of someone special. I think if i didn't have these feelings it wouldn't be that great but I'm glad I do