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153-520: Frank Ocean (born Christopher Edwin Breaux ; October 28, 1987) is an American singer and songwriter. He has been credited by several music critics as a pioneer of the alternative R&B genre. Ocean has won two Grammy Awards and a Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist , among other accolades ; both of his studio albums have been listed on Rolling Stone ' s " 500 Greatest Albums of All Time " (2020). Ocean began his musical career as

306-496: A chief music critic , while magazines such as Time and Vanity Fair also employed classical music critics. But by the early 1990s, classical critics were dropped in many publications, in part due to "a decline of interest in classical music, especially among younger people". Also of concern in classical music journalism was how American reviewers can write about ethnic and folk music from cultures other than their own, such as Indian ragas and traditional Japanese works. In 1990,

459-498: A ghostwriter until joining the Los Angeles-based hip hop collective Odd Future in 2010. The year prior, he signed with record producer Tricky Stewart 's RedZone Entertainment , an imprint of Def Jam Recordings , although his debut mixtape , Nostalgia, Ultra (2011), was released independently. His debut studio album , the eclectic Channel Orange (2012), incorporated elements of R&B and soul music . At

612-410: A musical composition ) its form and style, and for performance, standards of technique and expression. These standards were expressed, for example, in journals such as Neue Zeitschrift für Musik founded by Robert Schumann , and are continued today in the columns of serious newspapers and journals such as The Musical Times . Several factors—including growth of education, the influence of

765-507: A torch singer due to "his feel for romantic tragedy, unfurling in slow-boiling ballads". Ocean's stage presence during live shows has been described by Chris Richards of the Washington Post as "low-key". While nostalgia, ULTRA featured both original music by Ocean and tracks relying on sampled melodies, Channel Orange showcased Ocean as the primary musical composer, of which music journalist Robert Christgau opines, "when he's

918-591: A "scrum in rugby", in that "[e]verybody pushes against everybody else, and we move forward in a huge blob of vehement opinion and mutual judgment". Music critic and indie pop musician Scott Miller , in his 2010 book Music: What Happened? , suggested, "Part of the problem is that a lot of vital pop music is made by 22-year-olds who enjoy shock value, and it's pathetic when their elders are cornered into unalloyed reverence". Miller suggested that critics could navigate this problem by being prepared "to give young artists credit for terrific music without being intimidated into

1071-434: A "slap at the establishment, at publications such as the hippie homestead Rolling Stone and the rawker outpost Creem ", adding that the "1980s generation" of post-punk indie rockers had in the mid-2000s "been taken down by younger 'poptimists,' who argue that lovers of underground rock are elitists for not embracing the more multicultural mainstream". Powers likened the poptimist critics' debates about bands and styles to

1224-470: A 2010 interview, stating, "Most of us [critics] begin writing about music because we love it so much. We can't wait to tell our friends and neighbors about what we're hearing." According to McCall, even over the course of a long professional career, the enthusiastic impulse to share "never fades". McCall expressed his interest in "examining why people respond to what they respond to. I hazard guesses. Sometimes I'm wrong, but I hope I'm always provocative." In

1377-454: A July release date. The image shows a library card labeled Boys Don't Cry with numerous stamps, implying various due dates. The dates begin with July 2, 2015, and conclude with July 2016. Ocean's brother, Ryan Breaux, further suggested this release with an Instagram caption of the same library card photo reading "BOYS DON'T CRY #JULY2016". By August 1, 2016, at approximately 3 am, an endless live stream shot in negative lighting in what

1530-639: A booklet called "Jungle to Jukebox" that used racist, exotic tropes to illustrate the dangers of rock music to white youth. In the 2000s, online music bloggers began to supplement, and to some degree displace, music journalists in print media. In 2006, Martin Edlund of the New York Sun criticized the trend, arguing that while the "Internet has democratized music criticism, it seems it's also spread its penchant for uncritical hype". Carl Wilson described "an upsurge in pro-pop sentiment among critics" during

1683-735: A cease and desist letter. Ocean later confirmed through a Tumblr post that the dispute was about social issues, not music, and had since been resolved between the two artists. On November 6, 2018, three midterm specials of Blonded Radio were aired throughout the day, in collation with the Midterm elections that were held in the US, as well as the release of new merchandise given to those with proof of voting for free in Houston, Atlanta, Miami, and Dallas. The shows themselves did not include any new songs by Ocean, but included various political discussions including

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1836-486: A challenge "for those of us concerned with historical memory and popular music performance". Simon Frith said that pop and rock music "are closely associated with gender; that is, with conventions of male and female behaviour". According to Holly Kruse, both popular music articles and academic articles about pop music are usually written from "masculine subject positions". Kembrew McLeod analyzed terms used by critics to differentiate between pop music and rock, finding

1989-526: A challenge to taste hierarchies, and has remained a pugilistic, exhibitionist business throughout pop's own evolution". Powers claimed that "[i]nsults, rejections of others' authority, bratty assertions of superior knowledge and even threats of physical violence are the stuff of which pop criticism is made", while at the same time, the "best [pop criticism] also offers loving appreciation and profound insights about how music creates and collides with our everyday realities". She stated that pop criticism developed as

2142-560: A considerable amount of criticism from conservative Christian communities within the United States. This criticism was strongest throughout the 1960s and 70s, with some of the most prominent Christian critics being David A. Noebel , Bob Larson , and Frank Garlock . While these men were not professional music critics, they often claimed to be qualified rock critics because of their professional experiences with both music and religion. For example, Larson tried to assert his authority as

2295-450: A cover of the song performed by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film, Breakfast at Tiffany's . In May 2018, Ocean was featured on the tracks "Brotha Man" and "Purity" from ASAP Rocky 's third studio album Testing . In August 2018, Ocean featured on the song " Carousel " from Travis Scott 's third studio album Astroworld , which released on the same day. In September 2018, it was reported that Ocean took legal action against Scott through

2448-440: A dense musical fusion that drew on jazz , soul , and R&B . Funk and electronic music also influenced his album. The songs about unrequited love in particular received the most attention, partly because of Ocean's announcement prior to the album's release, when he revealed that his first love was a man. The announcement made global headlines, and some critics compared its cultural impact to when David Bowie revealed that he

2601-593: A discussion about Ocean being an 'openly queer' black man in contemporary rap music. On February 5, 2019, Ocean's Tumblr account was hacked hinting info about more of Ocean's material. The posts have since been deleted. On October 19, 2019, Ocean released a new song titled " DHL " on his Beats 1 radio show Blonded Radio and announced 7-inch vinyl singles of two new songs on his website titled "Dear April" and "Cayendo", originally available only as physical singles featuring B-side remixes from Justice and Sango , respectively. On November 1, 2019, Ocean followed up "DHL" with

2754-563: A failure to truly have in-person classes for traditional students in the years following COVID, and subsequent hurricanes the years following, UNO's enrollment hit record lows, close to its post-Katrina numbers. Because of this, less than a year after her appointment to the position, President Kathy Johnson was required to lay off numerous employees and shrink budgets by over 15% during the summer of 2024. There are more than 120 registered clubs and organizations active at UNO, including roughly 15 fraternities and sororities . UNO Student Government

2907-559: A frame of mind where dark subject matter always gets a passing grade", stating that a critic should be able to call a young artist "a musical genius" while "in the same breath declaring that his or her lyrics are morally objectionable." Reacting to the state of pop music criticism, Miller identified a major issue as critics' failure to "credit an artist with getting a feeling across", specifically pointing out critic Lester Bangs as "a ball of emotion at all times", who nonetheless "never really related to his favorite artists as people who develop

3060-495: A free man." Numerous celebrities publicly voiced their support for Ocean following his announcement, including Beyoncé and Jay-Z . Music journalism Music journalism has its roots in classical music criticism , which has traditionally comprised the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of music that has been composed and notated in a score and the evaluation of the performance of classical songs and pieces, such as symphonies and concertos . Before about

3213-459: A gendered dichotomy in descriptions of "'serious,' 'raw,' and 'sincere' rock music as distinguished from 'trivial', 'fluffy,' and 'formulaic' pop music". McLeod found that a likely cause of this dichotomy was the lack of women writing in music journalism: "By 1999, the number of female editors or senior writers at Rolling Stone hovered around a whopping 15%, [while] at Spin and Raygun , [it was] roughly 20%." Criticism associated with gender

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3366-497: A graduate degree. One critic of the study pointed out that because all newspapers were included, including low-circulation regional papers, the female representation of 26% misrepresented the actual scarcity, in that the "large US papers, which are the ones that influence public opinion, have virtually no women classical music critics", with the notable exceptions of Anne Midgette in the New York Times and Wynne Delacoma in

3519-588: A mentor at Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous meetings. He would take Ocean to these meetings, which was the inspiration behind Ocean's song "Crack Rock" from Channel Orange. He also gave him the nickname Lonny, which Frank Ocean still uses today. He died in 2010 and Frank Ocean dedicated a song to him called "There Will Be Tears" on his mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra . He also mentioned him on his 2017 single "Lens". After graduating from John Ehret High School in Marrero, Louisiana in 2005, Ocean enrolled in

3672-473: A music video for a song titled " Nikes " was uploaded to Ocean's Connect page on Apple Music and later to his own website. Also on August 20, Ocean announced pop-up shops in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, and London for his magazine Boys Don't Cry , and released his second studio album Blonde to widespread acclaim. Blonde debuted at number one in several countries, including the United States and

3825-580: A name change to the current "University of New Orleans." Nearly fifty years later, in 2011, the University of New Orleans was transferred from LSU to the University of Louisiana system , and its chief executive's title was changed to "president." On August 29, 2005, the university suffered damage due to Hurricane Katrina . The main campus is on relatively high ground, so the damage was caused mostly by winds, rain-driven-water, and human activity during

3978-443: A new song titled " In My Room ", which was premiered on Blonded Radio , and soon after on November 3 posted online another vinyl single of a new song titled " Little Demon " featuring a B-side remix by Arca . However, on February 25, 2020, Ocean announced that he will replace "Little Demon" with an unreleased song which would be released on February 28, 2020. The vinyl for "Little Demon" was canceled and refunds were provided. Ocean

4131-686: A number of other major newspapers "still have full-time classical music critics", including (in 2007) the Los Angeles Times , The Washington Post , The Baltimore Sun , The Philadelphia Inquirer , and The Boston Globe . Music writers only started "treating pop and rock music seriously" in 1964 "after the breakthrough of the Beatles ". In their book Rock Criticism from the Beginning , Ulf Lindberg and his co-writers say that rock criticism appears to have been "slower to develop in

4284-461: A perspective previously reserved for jazz artists to the rise of American-influenced local rock and pop groups, anticipating the advent of rock critics. Among Britain's broadsheet newspapers, pop music gained exposure in the arts section of The Times when William Mann , the paper's classical music critic, wrote an appreciation of the Beatles in December 1963. In early 1965, The Observer ,

4437-530: A remix of Endless track "Slide On Me" featuring Young Thug . On May 15 Ocean was featured on ASAP Mob 's " Raf ", premiered on Blonded alongside a solo version of "Biking". On August 28, Ocean released another single, " Provider ", on Blonded Radio . In October 2017, Ocean published a photo essay titled "New 17" to British magazine i-D . In the essay, Ocean said "If you liked two thousand and seventeen then you'll love two thousand and eighteen". In November 2017, Ocean hinted via Tumblr that his fifth project

4590-430: A rise of music critics who used YouTube and social media as their platform. According to Vice magazine's Larry Fitzmaurice in 2016, Twitter (X) is "perhaps the last public space for unfettered music criticism in an increasingly anti-critical landscape". In 2020, The New York Times described YouTuber Anthony Fantano as "probably the most popular music critic left standing." Fantano's channel, The Needle Drop,

4743-566: A rock critic by stating: "As a minister, I know now what it is like to feel the unction of the Holy Spirit. As a rock musician, I knew what it meant to feel the counterfeit anointing of Satan". Christian criticisms of rock music in the mid 20th century often centered around arguments that rock was both sonically and morally bad and physically harmful to both the body and soul. Using these central arguments, Noebel, Larson, Garlock, and other Christian critics of rock music wrote extensively about

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4896-424: A skill of conveying feelings. You don't feel that he comfortably acknowledged being moved as a result of their honest work. Artists in his writing were vaguely ridiculous, fascinating primitives, embodying an archetype by accident of nature." Jezebel ' s Tracy Moore, in 2014, suggested that one of the virtues of writing about how music made one feel, in contrast with linking it to the sounds of other artists,

5049-528: A song", in the way that working musicians might discuss "the A-minor in the second measure of the chorus". Stevie Chick, a writer who teaches music journalism at City University London , said, "I think more than any other journalism, music journalism has got a really powerful creative writing quotient to it." Tris McCall of the Newark Star-Ledger discussed his approach to music criticism in

5202-506: A songwriter under the name Lonny Breaux. After getting a songwriting deal, Ocean wrote songs for artists including Justin Bieber , Beyonce , John Legend , and Brandy . Ocean later said of his work at the time, "There was a point where I was composing for other people, and it might have been comfy to continue to do that and enjoy that income stream and the anonymity. But that's not why I moved away from school and away from family." He adopted

5355-491: A special photographer for Vogue . On October 23, 2017, he made two covers and a visual essay for British fashion magazine, i-D . Ocean's younger brother, Ryan Breaux, was killed in a car crash on August 2, 2020, at the age of 18. The crash was a single vehicle collision which led Breaux to be pronounced dead at the scene. Ocean wrote an open letter , initially intended for the liner notes on Channel Orange , that preemptively addressed speculation about his attraction in

5508-481: A sympathetic readership, given the nature of his publication, Goldstein's task was to win over a more highbrow readership to the artistic merits of contemporary pop music. At this time, both Goldstein and Williams gained considerable renown in the cultural mainstream and were the subject of profile articles in Newsweek . The emergence of rock journalism coincided with an attempt to position rock music, particularly

5661-542: A tradition of writing about rock since the 60's" has been "largely hidden in American culture". Brooks theorized that perceptions of female artists of color might be different if there were more women of color writing about them, and praised Ellen Willis as a significant feminist critic of rock's classic era. Willis, who was a columnist for the New Yorker from 1968 to 1975, believed society could be enlightened by

5814-469: Is "a one-stop shop for all your enrollment needs." This location includes offices of Enrollment, Orientation, the Bursar, Financial Aid, and Academic Advising. Not only is this building home to many enrollment services, but this building also has a Coffee Shop run by dining services and different academic resources on each floor. The first floor is home to a large study area known as the "Learning Commons" which

5967-434: Is "cultivating a sound that balances adult concerns with a sense of young men trying to understand their own desires (an apt description of Ocean, particularly)." Writing for Insider , Callie Ahlgrim said that Ocean "changed our very understanding of modern music", and that he discusses themes like youth, innocence, lost love, loneliness, desire, and mortality in his music in a way that "feels fresh and extraordinary [and] makes

6120-568: Is a building located on the west side of campus). Retail franchises include Subway, Chick Fil A, Fujisan Sushi, Bowl Life, and Brewed Awakening (which brews Starbucks Coffee). Moe's Southwest Grill and the Sandbar at the Cove are under temporary closure due to low student enrollment. Additionally, Chartwells manages three convenience "Markets" on campus known as the Market NOLA (which is located in

6273-415: Is a collaboration with Mick Jones , Paul Simonon and Diplo and is a part of Converse 's Three Artists. One Song series. In April 2014, Ocean stated that his second album was nearly finished. In September 2014, critical success and musical awards enabled new management and representation for Ocean. Ocean signed with Mark Gilespie of Three Six Zero Entertainment. In June, Billboard reported that

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6426-527: Is a member of the University of Louisiana System and is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". The university consists of eight schools and colleges offering 40 bachelor 's, 45 master 's and 17 doctoral degrees. Among its academic offerings are the only civil, mechanical and electrical engineering programs in New Orleans, the only graduate hospitality and tourism program and PAB -accredited urban planning program in

6579-405: Is allegedly a Brooklyn warehouse, sponsored by Apple Music began to surface on boysdontcry.co which appeared to show Ocean woodworking and sporadically playing instrumentals on loop. It later became clear that these instrumentals were from his upcoming visual album Endless ; the full version is estimated to be 140 hours long. That same day, many news outlets reported that August 5, 2016, could be

6732-578: Is also Ocean's first recorded collaboration since leaving Def Jam, with Ocean being listed in the liner notes as "appear[ing] courtesy of Frank Ocean". The song went on to be certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America and became Ocean's first top ten single on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart, peaking at No. 9. On March 10, 2017, Ocean released a new single " Chanel " on

6885-576: Is an eccentric take on such subject matter common in R&;B. The latter song was released by Ocean on his Tumblr account and references both the traditional spiritual " He's Got the Whole World in His Hands " and the female anatomy in its chorus: "she's got the whole wide world in her juicy fruit / he's got the whole wide world in his pants / he wrapped the whole wide world in a wedding band / then put

7038-534: Is called "popism" – or, more evocatively (and goofily), "poptimism". The poptimism approach states: "Pop (and, especially, hip-hop) producers are as important as rock auteurs, Beyoncé is as worthy of serious consideration as Bruce Springsteen , and ascribing shame to pop pleasure is itself a shameful act." In 2008, Ann Powers of the Los Angeles Times argued that pop music critics "have always been contrarians", because "pop music [criticism] rose up as

7191-440: Is centered on a perception that rock critics regard rock as "normative ... the standard state of popular music ... to which everything else is compared". At a 2006 pop critic conference, attendees discussed their "guilty pop pleasures, reconsidering musicians ( Tiny Tim , Dan Fogelberg , Phil Collins ) and genres " which rock critics have long dismissed as lightweight, commercial music. Rosen stated that "this new critical paradigm"

7344-410: Is his main outlet, but he also streams music commentary on Twitch and posts on X. In an article published in 2024, Jessica Karl, a Bloomberg News columnist, opined that "the way we critique music is broken". She argues that the current culture of consuming new music, particularly with the release of Taylor Swift's album The Tortured Poets Department (2024), is unhealthy. While she found some of

7497-602: Is home to a large computer lab in the front, an open-concept study area in the rear, the offices of Student Accountability/Disability Services & the Learning Resource Center, and group study room. The second floor is home to quiet computers, additional group study rooms, periodicals, the Women's Center, and the UNO Press. The third floor houses the silent study room, the honors program, the innovation suite,

7650-476: Is immersed in new sonic possibilities, one who is deeply committed to artistic exploration in the most profound sense." Savage praised Ocean for taking R&B to a "new level [through] constructing startling sound pictures that fit his lyrics." Pitchfork regarded Ocean as a "master of confessional songwriting, earning a cult-icon status with his enigmatic persona and idiosyncratic approach to pop." In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Ocean at number 190 on its list of

7803-518: Is important to note that the main office for the graduate school is located here and not in the Library. The university's campus is home to three on-campus housing options for students all located on UNO's main campus: Prior to the construction of the two Pontchartrain Halls following Hurricane Katrina, students lived at a dormitory known as Bienville Hall. After being used as office space while campus

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7956-461: Is the official student government association. Registered organizations are separated into categories of either religious, honorary, political, professional, social, service, organizations, or special interests. The Driftwood was the UNO weekly newspaper and was published every Thursday. UNO also owns and operates WWNO , a local radio station. WWNO began transmitting in 1972. The Greek community at

8109-496: Is to make things that last, that are hard to destroy, see it in stone. (...) This is 3 years in the making and there is so much I'm excited to share with all you strangers. Love". The jewelry company, which has already collaborated with Prada , cites inspiration from "childhood obsessions" and "heritage as a fantasy". On December 25, 2021, Ocean released a new 9-minute untitled song on his Beats 1 radio show Blonded Radio featuring music contribution from Cory Henry . In June 2022, it

8262-604: The Billboard Hot 100 , while four of his releases (singles or albums) have received platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Ocean was born Christopher Edwin Breaux on October 28, 1987, in Long Beach, California . His father is Calvin Edward Cooksey and was a singer and keyboardist, and his mother is Katonya Breaux Riley who later worked as a residential contractor. He

8415-556: The 55th Annual Grammy Awards , the album was nominated for Album of the Year and won Best Urban Contemporary Album ; its lead single, " Thinkin Bout You ", was nominated for Record of the Year . He was named by Time as one of the world's most influential people in 2013. After a four-year hiatus, Ocean released the visual album Endless (2016) to fulfill contractual obligations with Def Jam. His second studio album, Blonde ,

8568-552: The Chicago Sun-Times . In 2007, The New York Times wrote that classical music criticism, which it characterized as "a high-minded endeavor that has been around at least as long as newspapers", had undergone "a series of hits in recent months" with the elimination, downgrading, or redefinition of critics' jobs at newspapers in Atlanta, Minneapolis, and elsewhere, citing New York magazine's Peter G. Davis , "one of

8721-531: The Privateers . A total of 14 Privateer teams compete in the NCAA Division I Southland Conference . State Senator Theodore M. Hickey of New Orleans in 1956 authored the act which established the University of New Orleans. At the time New Orleans was the largest metropolitan area in the United States without a public university though it had several private universities , such as Tulane (which

8874-465: The Romantic movement generally and in music, popularization (including the 'star-status' of many performers such as Liszt and Paganini ), among others—led to an increasing interest in music among non-specialist journals, and an increase in the number of critics by profession of varying degrees of competence and integrity. The 1840s could be considered a turning point, in that music critics after

9027-708: The United States Navy relocated Naval Air Station New Orleans . The Orleans Levee Board leased the closed base to the LSU Board of Supervisors. The renovation went quicker than expected. LSUNO opened for classes in 1958, two years ahead of schedule. It was the first racially integrated public university in the South. For its first five years, it was reckoned as an offsite department of the main campus in Baton Rouge, and as such its chief administrative officer

9180-562: The University of New Orleans to study English. However, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in August 2005, destroying his home and personal recording facility and forcing him to transfer to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette . He stayed there for a brief time before dropping out to focus on his music career. In 2006, Ocean moved to Los Angeles to pursue his music career, working at various fast-food and service jobs to support himself. In less than three years, he established himself as

9333-544: The guitar shop , and now social media : when it comes to popular music, these places become stages for the display of male prowess", and adds, "Female expertise, when it appears, is repeatedly dismissed as fraudulent. Every woman who has ever ventured an opinion on popular music could give you some variation [of this experience] ...and becoming a recognized 'expert' (a musician, a critic) will not save [women] from accusations of fakery." Daphne Brooks, in her 2008 article "The Write to Rock: Racial Mythologies, Feminist Theory, and

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9486-633: The "ecstatic experience" of visions expressed through music's rhythm and noise and that such joy would lead people to different ways of sharing. Brooks wrote that "the confluence of cultural studies, rock studies, and third wave feminist critical studies makes it possible now more than ever to continue to critique and reinterrogate the form and content of popular music histories". In Brooks' view, "By bravely breaking open dense equations of gender, class, power, and subcultural music scenes", music journalists, activists and critics such as Ellen Willis have been "able to brilliantly, like no one before [them], challenge

9639-507: The 1840s generally were not also practicing musicians. However, counterexamples include Alfred Brendel , Charles Rosen , Paul Hindemith , and Ernst Krenek ; all of whom were modern practitioners of the classical music tradition who also write (or wrote) on music. Women music journalists in the twentieth century who covered classic music performance include Ruth Scott Miller of the Chicago Tribune (1920-1921), Henriette Weber at

9792-617: The 1840s, reporting on music was either done by musical journals, such as the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (founded by Johann Friedrich Rochlitz in 1798) and the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (founded by Robert Schumann in 1834), and in London journals such as The Musical Times (founded in 1844 as The Musical Times and Singing-class Circular ); or else by reporters at general newspapers where music did not form part of

9945-485: The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. On August 20, 2016, Ocean released a 360-page magazine, Boys Don't Cry , alongside his second album Blonde . The fashion and automobile-themed publication contains the photo projects from Wolfgang Tillmans , Viviane Sassen , Tyrone Lebon, Ren Hang , Harley Weir, Michael Mayren and Ocean himself. Four months later, British magazine Print published another photowork from Frank Ocean. On May 1, 2017, Ocean attended annual Met Gala as

10098-541: The 2010s, some commentators noted and criticized the lack of negative reviews in music journalism. Saul Austerlitz from the New York Times Magazine noted that unlike other art forms, "music is now effectively free. Music criticism's former priority — telling consumers what to purchase — has been rendered null and void for most fans." He argued that this and " click culture " causes music critics to act as "cheerleaders" for existing stars. The 2010s saw

10251-405: The 2013–2014 academic year. In November 2022, students overwhelmingly voted against a fee increase to add football, women's soccer, women's golf, and marching band to the campus. The official fight song of the University of New Orleans is "Let's Hear It For UNO". The song was adopted after a competition in 1981. The winner was Lois Ostrolenk. Before this, the melody from William Tell Overture

10404-611: The American south among black populations. Early conservative Christian criticisms of rock music had strong footings in racism. Most white conservative Christians in the mid 20th century understood that rock started among black populations and feared what the success of the genre implied for the church, segregation, and racial equality. When critiquing rock music, Christian critics commonly portrayed rock music with "primitive and exotic imagery to convey [its] African-roots". For example, The American Tract Society in New Jersey released

10557-546: The Beatles' work, in the American cultural landscape. The critical discourse was further heightened by the respectful coverage afforded the genre in mainstream publications such as Newsweek , Time and Life in the months leading up to and following the release of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in June 1967. Within this discourse, Richard Meltzer , in an essay for Crawdaddy! in March, challenged

10710-494: The Chemical-Sciences Annex (1997), and Kirschman Hall (2004). The College of Engineering building is the tallest building on campus. It has nine floors and is home to the university's Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME) Program, among other engineering programs. Two buildings on campus feature atrium designs as opposed to hallways. Kirschman Hall, the newest lecture building on campus and home of

10863-535: The Chicago Herald-Examiner , and Claudia Cassidy , who worked for Chicago Journal of Commerce (1924–1941), the Chicago Sun (1941–42) and the Chicago Tribune (1942–65). In the early 1980s, a decline in the quantity of classical criticism began occurring "when classical music criticism visibly started to disappear" from the media. At that time, leading newspapers still typically employed

11016-553: The College of Business Administration, features a large atrium in the center with a few satellite hallways connecting to it. It is considered to be the second largest lecture building on campus (after the engineering building). The University of New Orleans features three buildings that are considered to be the centers of campus life: The Earl K. Long Library is home to the Privateer Enrollment Center, which

11169-586: The Division II proposal to the LSU Board of Supervisors. Previously, UNO competed at the Division II level from 1969 to 1975. On March 9, 2012, President Peter J. Fos announced that UNO plans to remain a member of NCAA Division I, with potential homes being the Sun Belt or Southland Conference . On August 21, 2012, UNO announced that it would be joining the Southland Conference , effective

11322-642: The Engineering Building. The university's dining services are currently managed by Chartwells Higher Ed, a branch of Compass Group . They manage all dining locations on campus including the university's buffet-styled cafeteria is known as the Food Hall at the Galley. Retail dining locations are mainly located on the Deck (which is in the university center on the east side of campus) and the Cove (which

11475-522: The Pleasures of Rock Music Criticism", wrote that in order to restructure music criticism, one must "focus on multiple counter narratives" to break away from racial and gender biases as embodied in "contemporary cultural fetishizations of white male performative virtuosity and latent black male innovations". Brooks focused on "the ways that rock music criticism has shaped and continues to shape our understandings of racialized music encounters, and what are

11628-483: The U.S. than in England". One of the early British music magazines, Melody Maker , complained in 1967 about how "newspapers and magazines are continually hammering [i.e., attacking] pop music ". From 1964, Melody Maker led its rival publications in terms of approaching music and musicians as a subject for serious study rather than merely entertainment. Staff reporters such as Chris Welch and Ray Coleman applied

11781-617: The UNO Bookstore, and various meeting spaces. University offices located here include counseling services, career services, student involvement and leadership, Greek life, student government association, student affairs, the HUB, the student pantry, student transitions, and the Juan LaFonta Diversity Engagement Center. It is also home to an Oschner Health Clinic and various leisure spaces. The lobby of

11934-745: The United Kingdom, and recorded sales of 232,000 copies (275,000 with album-equivalent units) in its first week. Rather than going on a typical promotional tour playing radio festivals and appearing on television shows, Ocean spent a month after the release of Blonde , traveling to countries such as China, Japan and France. He also chose not to submit Blonde for consideration at the Grammy Awards , stating "that institution certainly has nostalgic importance; it just doesn't seem to be representing very well for people who come from where I come from, and hold down what I hold down." Time ranked it as

12087-410: The United States "the emergence of a 'serious' rock press and the rock critic" began in 1966, presaged by Robert Shelton , the folk music critic for The New York Times , writing articles praising the Beatles and Bob Dylan , the last of whom had just embraced rock 'n' roll by performing with electric backing at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival . Paul Williams , an eighteen-year-old student, launched

12240-578: The University of New Orleans is composed of about 15 fraternities and sororities. UNO has four colleges: College of Business Administration, College of Liberal Arts, Education and Human Development, College of Engineering, and College of Sciences. The university also offers a bachelor's degree in Interdisciplinary Studies. The university's campus is located in the New Orleans metropolitan area , sitting on Lake Pontchartrain at

12393-537: The World Music Institute interviewed four New York Times music critics who came up with the following criteria on how to approach ethnic music: A key finding in a 2005 study of arts journalism in America was that the profile of the "average classical music critic is a white, 52-year old male, with a graduate degree". Demographics indicated that the group was 74% male, 92% white, and 64% had earned

12546-443: The album was slated to feature the aforementioned "Memrise". In February 2016, Ocean was featured on Kanye West's album The Life of Pablo on the track " Wolves " along with Vic Mensa and Sia . A month later, the song was re-edited by West, and Ocean's part was separated and listed on the track list as its own song titled " Frank's Track ". In July 2016, he hinted at a possible second album with an image on his website pointing to

12699-615: The album with his 2012 Summer Tour, which featured final appearances at the Coachella and Lollapalooza festivals. At the 2013 Brit Awards , Ocean won the Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist . On May 28, 2013, Ocean announced the You're Not Dead ... 2013 Tour; a fourteen-date European and Canadian tour that began on June 16, 2013, in Munich . He had been scheduled to perform at

12852-425: The alternative stories that we might tell". Brooks pointed to Christgau's statement that, after the Beatles' arrival in America, "rock criticism embraced a dream or metaphor of perpetual revolution. Worthwhile bands were supposed to change people's lives, preferably for the better. If they failed to do so, that meant they didn't matter." Unsurprisingly, according to Brooks, "the history of women who've been sustaining

13005-494: The art. Applying critical theory ( e.g. , critical gender studies and critical race theory ) to music journalism, some academic writers suggest that mutual disrespect between critics and artists is one of many negative effects of rockism . In 2004, critic Kelefa Sanneh defined "rockism" as "idolizing the authentic old legend (or underground hero) while mocking the latest pop star". Music journalism "infected" with rockism has become, according to Yale professor Daphne Brooks,

13158-437: The beats used in rock music could cause rebellion in younger generations due to their hypnotic and influential nature. Drawing from styles like rhythm and blues and jazz music, rock and roll was first innovated by black communities, but was soon appropriated by white populations. This aspect of rock's history has been overlooked by historians and the media, but music experts now widely agree that rock's true origins lie in

13311-607: The best album of 2016 on its year-end list. Forbes estimated that Blonde earned Ocean nearly one million in profits after one week of availability, attributing this to him releasing the album independently and as a limited exclusive release on iTunes and Apple Music. On July 9, 2018, Blonde was certified platinum by the RIAA. On February 21, 2017, Scottish DJ and producer Calvin Harris announced his single " Slide ", in which Ocean and hip-hop trio Migos were featured. The single

13464-453: The best album of the year in the HMV's Poll of Polls . It also earned Ocean six Grammy Award nominations and was credited by some writers for moving the R&B genre in a different, more challenging direction. Considered as Ocean's first commercial release on a traditional record label, Channel Orange featured unconventional songs that were noted for their storytelling and social commentary, and

13617-473: The building features a large atrium with flags hanging down. These are placed the first time a student comes to the university from another nation. The Administration Building consists of two sections: the original administration building and the newer administration annex, an addition to the building that was built later. Many university administrative offices are located here though these are typically administrative and not often visited by students. However, it

13770-480: The central objectives of the publication. An influential English 19th-century music critic, for example, was James William Davison of The Times . The composer Hector Berlioz also wrote reviews and criticisms for the Paris press of the 1830s and 1840s. Modern art music journalism is often informed by music theory consideration of the many diverse elements of a musical piece or performance, including (as regards

13923-413: The country's highbrow Sunday newspaper, signalled a reversal of the establishment's cultural snobbery towards pop music by appointing George Melly as its "critic of pop culture". Following Tony Palmer 's arrival at The Observer , the first daily newspaper to employ a dedicated rock critic was The Guardian , with the appointment of Geoffrey Cannon in 1968. Melody Maker ' s writers advocated

14076-432: The cover of the publication The Fader , in its 75th issue. Ocean released the cover art for his debut studio album's lead single , titled "Thinkin Bout You", revealing the song would be released to digital retailers on April 10, 2012. However, a month earlier, a re-mastered version of the song had already leaked. About the prospective single he said: "It succinctly defines me as an artist for where I am right now and that

14229-457: The differences between 'good' and 'bad' music. In The Beatles: A Study in Drugs, Sex and Revolution , Noebel explained why rock music was 'bad' by contrasting it with qualities of 'good' music. In The Big Beat: A Rock Blast , similar arguments were posed by Garlock, with the additional argument that 'good' music must come from distinguished and educated musicians. Additionally, Larson argued that

14382-406: The early 2000s, writing that a "new generation [of music critics] moved into positions of critical influence" and then "mounted a wholesale critique against the syndrome of measuring all popular music by the norms of rock culture". Slate magazine writer Jody Rosen discussed the 2000s-era trends in pop music criticism in his article "The Perils of Poptimism". Rosen noted that much of the debate

14535-574: The emergence of Crawdaddy! Lindberg et al. say that, while Williams is widely considered to be the first American rock critic, he "nevertheless looked to England for material". According to Gendron, Goldstein's most significant early pieces were a "manifesto" on rock 'n' roll and "pop aestheticism", and a laudatory assessment of the Beatles' Revolver album. Published in late August, the latter article provided "the first substantial rock review devoted to one album to appear in any nonrock magazine with accreditory power". Whereas Williams could be sure of

14688-587: The end of Elysian Fields Avenue and on the former site of NAS New Orleans. The UNO Research and Technology Park, referred to as "The Beach" is located adjacent to campus on the former site of the Pontchartrain Beach amusement park. The Kiefer UNO Lakefront Arena and Maestri Field at Privateer Park, UNO's basketball and baseball facilities, are located at the corner of Franklin Avenue and Leon C. Simon Boulevard. UNO's classes were originally housed in

14841-1027: The festival's second weekend, citing a leg injury. Ocean's music has been characterized by music writers as idiosyncratic in style. His music generally includes the electronic keyboard , often performed by Ocean himself, and is backed by a subdued rhythm section in the production. His compositions are often midtempo , feature unconventional melodies, and occasionally have an experimental song structure . In critical commentaries, he has been characterised as an " avant-garde R&B artist", and an " avant-soul singer ". Steven Hyden called him "an introspective psych-soul balladeer". In Ocean's songwriting, Jon Pareles of The New York Times observes "open echoes of self-guided, innovative R&B songwriters like Prince , Stevie Wonder , Marvin Gaye , Maxwell , Erykah Badu and particularly R. Kelly and his way of writing melodies that hover between speech and song, asymmetrical and syncopated." Jody Rosen of Rolling Stone calls him

14994-551: The first night of OVO Fest on August 4, 2013; however he was forced to cancel his appearance due to a small vocal cord injury. The first night of the music festival was subsequently cancelled and James Blake was booked to appear during the second night as Ocean's replacement. Ocean appeared on John Mayer 's album Paradise Valley , as a featured artist on a song called "Wildfire". In February 2013, Ocean confirmed that he had started work on his second studio album, which he confirmed would be another concept album. He revealed that he

15147-427: The flow of linear time by prompting us to dive deep into our own memories and feel something indelibly real". Certain songs on Channel Orange allude to Ocean's experience with unrequited love . Music critics have credited Ocean for pioneering alternative R&B , approaching R&B music differently to his contemporaries with an idiosyncratic style. Both Insider and The Wall Street Journal regarded Ocean as

15300-588: The highbrow aesthetic of rock proposed by Goldstein. The latter's mixed review of Sgt. Pepper in The New York Times was similarly the subject of journalistic debate, and invited reprisals from musicologists, composers and cultural commentators. Among other young American writers who became pop columnists following Goldstein's appointment were Robert Christgau (at Esquire , from June 1967), Ellen Willis ( The New Yorker , March 1968) and Ellen Sander ( Saturday Review , October 1968). Christgau

15453-456: The hurricane, the student enrollment is on a steady increase toward pre-Katrina numbers. While the COVID-19 pandemic caused a drop in enrollment at universities across the United States, the University of New Orleans was particularly hard hit for a variety of reasons. Partially due to a large portion of UNO's non-traditional student base seeking education at non-traditional online universities,

15606-492: The intellectual and political activism and agency" of the entire music industry. University of New Orleans The University of New Orleans ( UNO ) is a public research university in New Orleans , Louisiana . First opened in 1958 as Louisiana State University in New Orleans , it is the largest public university and one of two doctoral research universities in the Greater New Orleans region. UNO

15759-414: The internet. It was later revealed the song was a reference track , written by Ocean, for Roc Nation artist Bridget Kelly 's debut studio album. Kelly renamed the song 'Thinking About Forever'. In September 2011, a music video directed by High5Collective for Ocean's version was released, yet the song still appeared on Kelly's debut EP Every Girl . In August 2011, Frank Ocean made his first appearance on

15912-427: The introspective sound universal and transcendent [which] is why he's one of the defining artists of our time." Jacob Shamsian of Business Insider said that Ocean "isn't just one of the most important artists in pop, he's one of the most important artists in all of music." In a GQ article titled "Why Frank Ocean is a musical icon", Jon Savage described Ocean as a "consummate contemporary artist in every sense who

16065-402: The label, and began working on a mixtape on his own without their input. On February 16, 2011, Ocean self-released the resulting mixtape , Nostalgia, Ultra online for free. The mixtape received critical acclaim. The mixtape focuses on interpersonal relationships, personal reflection and social commentary. NPR 's Andrew Noz said Ocean's songwriting is "smart and subtle...setting him apart from

16218-468: The meditation area, and private study rooms for faculty and graduate students. The fourth floor is where the quiet study area, the special collections/archives, the reading room, various conferences rooms, and additional offices are located. The university center is "the center of campus life at UNO." The building is home to dining services locations, the grand ball room, the Captain's Quarter's Game Room,

16371-910: The most dominant artist of the 2010s decade. He was included in the 2013 edition of the Time ' s list of the 100 most influential people in the world and the 2017 edition of the Forbes 30 Under 30 . Andy Kellman of AllMusic wrote, Frank Ocean has been one of the more fascinating figures in contemporary music since his early-2010s arrival. A singer and songwriter whose artful output has defied rigid classification as R&B, he has nonetheless pushed that genre forward with seemingly offhanded yet imaginatively detailed narratives in which he has alternated between yearning romantic and easygoing braggart. Culture critic Nelson George asserts that, along with Miguel , Ocean has "staked out ground where [he is] not competing with those hit-driven [commercial R&B] acts" and

16524-421: The most respected voices of the craft, [who] said he had been forced out after 26 years". Viewing "robust analysis, commentary and reportage as vital to the health of the art form", The New York Times stated in 2007 that it continued to maintain "a staff of three full-time classical music critics and three freelancers", noting also that classical music criticism had become increasingly available on blogs, and that

16677-406: The new forms of pop music of the late 1960s. "By 1999, the 'quality' press was regularly carrying reviews of popular music gigs and albums", which had a "key role in keeping pop" in the public eye. As more pop music critics began writing, this had the effect of "legitimating pop as an art form"; as a result, "newspaper coverage shifted towards pop as music rather than pop as social phenomenon". In

16830-564: The pack". Rolling Stone magazine's Jonah Weiner wrote that Ocean was a "gifted avant-R&B smoothie". In April 2011, Ocean stated that his relationship with Def Jam had strengthened since the release of the Nostalgia, Ultra . The mixtape made Ocean widely known and led to his collaborations with rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West . Ocean first appeared in Tyler, the Creator's music video for

16983-442: The past to another man. Instead, on July 4, 2012, he published the open letter on his Tumblr blog recounting unrequited feelings he had for another young man when he was 19 years old, citing it as his first true love. He used the blog to thank the man for his influence, and also thanked his mother and other friends, saying, "I don't know what happens now, and that's alright. I don't have any secrets I need kept anymore... I feel like

17136-460: The plaudits and criticism. She condemned the Paste review for making "a litany of petty, exclamation-pointed digs" at Swift, and dismissed the rave Rolling Stone review for calling the album a classic within a day, as well as criticizing articles by "reputable publications" like Time and The Philadelphia Inquirer for catering gossip to the masses and fandom instead of serious journalism of

17289-631: The pop journal Crawdaddy! in February 1966; in June, Richard Goldstein , a recent graduate and New Journalism writer, debuted his "Pop Eye" column in The Village Voice , which Gendron describes as "the first regular column on rock 'n' roll ... to appear in an established cultural publication". Rock journalist Clinton Heylin , in his role as editor of The Penguin Book of Rock & Roll Writing , cites "the true genesis of rock criticism" to

17442-622: The realm of rock music, as in that of classical music, critics have not always been respected by their subjects. Frank Zappa declared that "Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read." In the Guns N' Roses song " Get in the Ring ", Axl Rose verbally attacked critics who gave the band negative reviews because of their actions on stage; such critics as Andy Secher , Mick Wall and Bob Guccione Jr. were mentioned by name. Rock music received

17595-507: The record label. Before the visual album's release on Apple Music , Ocean had already begun making efforts to part ways with Def Jam, who signed the artist in 2009. He describes his negotiations with the label as a "seven-year chess game", while adding that he had replaced many of his representatives (including his lawyer and manager ) during the process, as well as having to buy back all of his master recordings that previously belonged to Def Jam . At midnight Pacific time on August 20, 2016,

17748-487: The release date for Boys Don't Cry . That date also turned out to be inaccurate, though in a Reddit AMA session, his collaborator Malay said that Ocean is a perfectionist, constantly tweaking things, and that his art cannot be rushed. On August 18 and 19, 2016, the live stream was accompanied with music and at midnight an Apple Music link was directed to a project called Endless . Endless would be Ocean's last album with Def Jam Recordings to fulfill his contract with

17901-611: The remaining buildings following the closure of NAS New Orleans at that site. As a nod to campus' time as a Naval base, the oldest lecture buildings completed in 1960, the Liberal Arts Building and the Science Building, are both numbered and laid-out like a ship with Liberal Arts featuring exterior balconies for access to the classrooms as opposed to interior hallways, and both Liberal Arts and Science featuring two central courtyards in each building. Throughout

18054-414: The reviews of the album were "well-considered", she opined others were pre-written and "daft". She explained that critics are "staying up until dawn to finish listening to an album as if it's a college paper we're cramming to complete by the morning" and long albums like the 31-track Tortured Poets frustrate them. Karl also felt that reviews appearing online within hours of an album's release discredits both

18207-451: The second episode of Blonded Radio , as well as playing an alternate version featuring American rapper ASAP Rocky . The song was his first solo effort to be released after Blonde and Endless in 2016. On subsequent episodes of Blonded Radio in April, Ocean premiered " Biking " featuring Jay-Z and Tyler, the Creator , "Lens", as well as an alternate version featuring Travis Scott , and

18360-491: The singer was working with a string of artists such as Happy Perez (whom he worked with on nostalgia, ULTRA ), Charlie Gambetta and Kevin Ristro , while producers Hit-Boy , Rodney Jerkins and Danger Mouse were also said to be on board. On November 29, 2014, Ocean released a snippet of a new song supposedly from his upcoming follow-up to Channel Orange called "Memrise" on his official Tumblr page. The Guardian described

18513-412: The single " She ", from Tyler's debut studio album Goblin (2011). His first performance was in collaboration with Odd Future at the 2011 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, where he later joined them for their first tour across the east coast of the United States. On May 19, 2011, Ocean's record label Def Jam announced its plans to re-release Nostalgia, Ultra as an EP . The single " Novacane "

18666-403: The sole composer Ocean resists making a show of himself—resists the dope hook , the smart tempo, the transcendent falsetto itself." Ocean's lyrics deal with themes of love, longing, misgiving, and nostalgia. His debut single " Novacane " juxtaposes the numbness and artificiality of a sexual relationship with that of mainstream radio, while "Voodoo" merges themes of spirituality and sexuality, and

18819-492: The song as: "...a song which affirms that despite reportedly changing labels and management, he has maintained both his experimentation and sense of melancholy in the intervening years". On April 6, 2015, Ocean announced that his follow-up to Channel Orange would be released in July. The album was ultimately not released in July, with no explanation given for its delay. The publication was rumoured to be called Boys Don't Cry , and

18972-449: The stage name Frank Ocean, getting the name from Frank Sinatra and the 1960s film Ocean's 11 , which Sinatra starred in. Soon after, he joined Los Angeles-based hip hop collective Odd Future , whom he had met in 2009. His friendship with Odd Future member Tyler, the Creator reinvigorated Ocean's songwriting. In late 2009, he met Tricky Stewart , who helped him sign a writing contract with Def Jam Recordings . Ocean felt neglected by

19125-592: The state of Louisiana, and one of the few schools of naval architecture and engineering in the United States. UNO's 195-acre main campus is located on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain in Gentilly , New Orleans. The university's East Campus houses athletic facilities including Maestri Field and the UNO Lakefront Arena . UNO also owns and operates The Beach, a research and technology park adjacent to its main campus. The university's athletic teams are

19278-829: The storm. The university was used as an evacuation point and staging area by the National Guard . A levee breach on the London Avenue Canal occurred just a few blocks south of the main campus and caused the flooding of the first floor of the Bienville Hall dormitories, the Lafitte Village couples apartments, and the Engineering Building. UNO was the first of the large, damaged universities in New Orleans to re-open, albeit virtually, by using web-based courses starting in October 2005. The university

19431-484: The traditional high / low culture split, usually around notions of artistic integrity, authenticity, and the nature of commercialism". These review collections, Shuker continues, "became bibles in the field, establishing orthodoxies as to the relative value of various styles or genres and pantheons of artists. Record collectors and enthusiasts, and specialisation and secondhand record shops, inevitably have well-thumbed copies of these and similar volumes close at hand." In

19584-481: The two songs were officially released digitally on April 3. On August 8, 2021, Frank Ocean officially revealed his first fashion project, "Homer", initially announced by the singer in a Financial Times interview. In a Q&A sent in the press release, Homer was simply stated as "an independent American luxury company founded by Frank Ocean". In an Instagram story, Frank wrote: "This project has kept my mind moving and my imagination turning throughout it all. (...) My hope

19737-597: The university center and serves PJ's coffee), Market Cove (located in the cove), and Market Pontchartrain (located in the residence hall on campus). The University of New Orleans currently has 14 varsity sports teams, and is a Division I member of the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association), competing in the Southland Conference. UNO originally attempted to reclassify to Division II's Gulf South Conference . On February 1, 2011, Provost Joe King submitted

19890-426: The vinyl singles for " Dear April " and " Cayendo ", as well as the previously released "In My Room", although many reported later having issues in receiving vinyl orders or receiving refunds for canceled orders. Remixes of the two tracks had previously been teased during his club night DJ set PrEP+. The vinyl issues and exclusivity encouraged listeners to leak these two songs onto sites like Twitter and SoundCloud , and

20043-456: The whole wide world on her hands / she's got the whole wide world in her hands / he's got the whole wide world in his hands." According to Corbon Goble of Stereogum , the lyrical "moods" of "Voodoo" are indicative of Ocean's "sometimes-bleak, depressive lyrical tendencies", while MTV News writer Tirhakah Love such songs are among Ocean's most distinctive for how they transfigure the meaning behind short-term and long-term memory, and "disrupt

20196-457: The world of pop music criticism, there has tended to be a quick turnover. The "pop music industry" expects that any particular rock critic will likely disappear from popular view within five years; in contrast, according to author Mark Fenster, the "stars" of rock criticism are more likely to have long careers with "book contracts, featured columns, and editorial and staff positions at magazines and newspapers". Author Bernard Gendron writes that in

20349-905: The years, additional permanent buildings were built to accommodate a larger student body. These include Milneburg Hall (1969), the University Center (1969), the Earl K. Long Library (1970), the Geology/Psychology Building (1972), the Engineering Building (1987), the Life Sciences Complex (Phase 1: the Computer Center, Phase 2: the Biology Building, and Phase 3: the Mathematics Building; All completed between 1979 and 1984),

20502-411: Was able to offer classes in the fall semester immediately following Hurricane Katrina at satellite campuses; the main campus re-opened in December 2005. Hurricane Katrina reduced enrollments at all colleges in New Orleans, but the University of New Orleans was particularly hard hit. This echoed the damage to New Orleans as a whole, since UNO serves as a leader in educating students from New Orleans. Since

20655-465: Was announced that Ocean was in talks to direct his first feature film, with A24 producing. In October, Ocean revealed Homer Radio , a weekly Apple Music 1 broadcast described as a window of what plays around their office after hours. On January 10, 2023, Coachella announced Ocean would be headlining the festival on April 16 and 23, his first live performances since 2017. Ocean began his set nearly an hour after his scheduled start time on April 16 and

20808-572: Was being reconfigured after Katrina, the main residential section of the building finally closed down in 2010. The disused building was demolished in 2023 and the Hynes-UNO Charter School was built on the site. The rear Commons of the building was not included in the deconstruction. Once the cafeteria and amenities for on campus housing, it is now home to the Facility Services Workshop, and some storage for

20961-476: Was bisexual in 1972. Channel Orange debuted at number two on the Billboard 200 and sold 131,000 copies in its first week. The majority of its first-week sales were digital copies from iTunes, while approximately 3,000 of the sales were physical copies. On January 30, Channel Orange was certified gold by the RIAA. By September 2014, it had sold 621,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Ocean promoted

21114-422: Was complete. However it is unknown when or if it will be released. Ocean's voice appears in the video game Grand Theft Auto V , as he plays himself hosting an in-game radio station called Blonded Los Santos 97.8 FM. He also lent the songs "Provider", " Ivy ", "Crack Rock", " Chanel ", "Nights" and "Pretty Sweet" to the game, and sings the radio station jingles. On February 14, 2018, Ocean released " Moon River ",

21267-540: Was forced to end the show early due to local curfew restrictions. The performance was widely criticized by both fans and music critics, especially for not being live-streamed on YouTube, like most of the other performances from the festival. No professional photographers were allowed in the audience and no merchandise was available to fans. The effort Ocean gave to his performance was regarded as mediocre by many and disappointing for an artist that had not performed live music in six years. He would go on to cancel his appearance at

21420-472: Was graphically discussed in a 2014 Jezebel article about the struggles of women in music journalism , written by music critic Tracy Moore, previously an editor at the Nashville Scene . Moore described how another female music blogger, an "admitted outsider" who threatened no stereotypes, was greeted with enthusiasm by men, in contrast with Moore's own experiences as a self-described "insider" who

21573-446: Was nevertheless expected to "prove" or "earn" her way into a male-dominated journalism scene. According to Anwen Crawford, music critic for Australia's The Monthly , the "problem for women [popular music critics] is that our role in popular music was codified long ago"; as a result, "most famous rock-music critics – Robert Christgau, Greil Marcus , Lester Bangs , Nick Kent – are all male". Crawford points to "[t]he record store ,

21726-550: Was originally a state-supported university before being privatized in 1884), Loyola , and Dillard . The institution was a branch of Louisiana State University , and as such was originally named Louisiana State University in New Orleans or LSUNO . The UNO University Ballroom was named in Hickey's honor late in 2014, more than two decades after his death. The university was built on the New Orleans Lakefront when

21879-471: Was originally called a dean (1958–1961), then a vice president in charge (1961–1962). In 1962, the LSU System of Higher Education was established, and LSUNO became a separate campus in that system. To signify that it was now a co-equal institution with LSU, its chief executive's title was changed from "vice president in charge" to "chancellor." After a decade of growth, the LSU Board of Supervisors approved

22032-401: Was raised by his mother after his parents divorced when he was six years old. When he was five years old, he and his family relocated to the New Orleans area. He was raised Christian , including a brief time as a practicing Catholic . Ocean's grandfather Lionel McGruder Jr. was a father figure for Ocean after his father left the family. Lionel was a recovering drug addict and later served as

22185-496: Was released independently the following day. Expanding on Ocean's experimental approach, Blonde was met with critical acclaim, debuted atop the US Billboard 200 , and ranked first on Pitchfork 's Best Albums of the 2010s Decade list. After 2017, Ocean has released sporadic singles, worked as a photographer for magazines, launched the fashion brand Homer , and started Homer Radio . 15 of Ocean's songs have entered

22338-606: Was released to iTunes in May 2011, and the EP originally was set to be released the next month, but was delayed. In June 2011, Ocean revealed that he would work on the upcoming Kanye West and Jay-Z collaborative album, Watch the Throne . Ocean co-wrote and featured on two tracks: " No Church in the Wild " and " Made in America ". On July 28, 2011, a song titled " Thinkin Bout You ", leaked on

22491-447: Was released two days later and is from Harris' fifth studio album Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1 . Ocean and Migos are credited with featured vocals and Ocean and Migos members, Quavo and Offset are credited songwriting, while production is handled by Harris. The other Migos member, Takeoff is not in the song. The song was released on February 23, 2017, and featured on the first episode of Ocean's Beats 1 radio show, Blonded Radio . It

22644-486: Was set to headline at Coachella in October 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the festival was initially postponed until October 9–11 and October 16–18, but in June, Riverside County public health officers announced it and Stagecoach had been cancelled altogether. In August 2021, Coachella co-founder Paul Tollett confirmed that Ocean will headline the festival in 2023. From March 25, 2020, Ocean's website started shipping

22797-431: Was the "originator of the 'consumer guide' approach to pop music reviews", an approach that was designed to help readers decide whether to buy a new album. According to popular music academic Roy Shuker in 1994, music reference books such as The Rolling Stone Record Guide and Christgau's Record Guide played a role in the rise of rock critics as tastemakers in the music industry, "constructing their own version of

22950-626: Was the aim," he said of the follow-up to his acclaimed Nostalgia, Ultra . "It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story and all kinds of sonic goodness." Perhaps this is R&B's Ziggy Stardust moment, where the controversy and publicity surrounding an artist's sexuality and the brilliance of his latest album combine to give his career unstoppable momentum. — Alexis Petridis , 2012 In 2012, Ocean released his debut studio album Channel Orange to universal acclaim from critics, who later named it

23103-467: Was to avoid excluding readers who may not have musical knowledge as broad as that of the writer. In contrast, Miller believed that analytical readers would appreciate "more music talk in music criticism", suggesting that "sensitively modest doses" of musical analysis would provide helpful support for a conclusion "that great melody writing occurred or it didn't". For example, Miller noted that critics rarely "identify catchy melodies as specific passages within

23256-462: Was used. A variation of the overture is still played to honor this tradition. The University of New Orleans has many club sports provided by the Department of Recreation and Intramural Sports. Club sports are available to all UNO students who have an interest. Active club sports include: The University of New Orleans Research and Technology Park is a research park whose tenants collaborate with

23409-473: Was working with Tyler, the Creator , Pharrell Williams , and Danger Mouse on the record. He later stated that he was being influenced by The Beach Boys and The Beatles . He stated he was interested in collaborating with Tame Impala and King Krule and that he would record part of the album in Bora Bora . On March 10, 2014, the song "Hero" was made available for free download on SoundCloud . The song

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