For devout Frank Ocean fans, today’s date is not Oct. 27.
To those who still have hope that a new Frank Ocean project will release this year, today is the 120th day of the longest July ever.
Almost three months have come and gone since the promised July 2015 release date of Frank Ocean’s album, Boys Don’t Cry.
The album was also supposed to include an accompanying magazine.
Fans were excited to hear the follow up album to Channel Orange, but as the days passed, it grew less likely that the album would drop.
The California born artist, Frank Ocean, has been missing in the music world for three years now. His debut studio album, Channel Orange, released on July 10, 2013. It earned six Grammy nominations, sold over 100,000 copies, and changed the world of R&B music.
In April of 2015, Ocean announced his long awaited second album, Boys Don’t Cry would be finished and released in July.
As July arrived, many fans became very anxious and broke the internet for his sophomore album. Three months have gone by, and the album still hasn’t been released.
Ocean hasn’t commented on any information for the album and fans are almost fed up with waiting, but some still have faith.
“I expect his album to be the best one he’s ever made because he kept us waiting so long,” senior Ruth Tiguh said on how she expects the album to sound. “I feel like this is his plan, to get as much publicity for the music he’ll release in the future.”
French artist, Christophe Chassol, was rumored to collaborate with Ocean for new music.
“Ocean invited me to Abbey Road to record on his album. He asked me to do some speech harmonization on a song with him,” Chassol said.
Frank Ocean hasn’t been spotted anywhere in a while, he even cancelled an appearance at FYF Fest on Aug. 22 and was replaced by Kanye West. He also is hiding from the public, which is worrying his fans.
Details on the upcoming project may have leaked. In an interview with Les inRocks, Ed Banger Records owner, Pedro Winter, revealed how him and Ocean are collaborating when he was asked about the future of his label.
“Sebastian has just finished producing a few tracks for Frank Ocean – a truly exciting partnership – and he will finally be able to rest on his second album,” Winter revealed.
Even with Ocean’s absence, he still remains to be one of the most popular musicians on the planet, as he has over 2,000,000 monthly listeners on Spotify.