What comes between Frank Ocean and his Calvins? Not much!
The dreamy R&B prodigy joins Kate Moss, Margo Robbie, former Vogue creative director Grace Coddington and other influencers as one of the faces of the fashion label’s new fall campaign.
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Ocean’s spot features the 28-year-old singer chilling in a surreal room with a distinctly ’80s look and sharing a quiet moment with a Marilyn Monroe lookalike in a neon drenched hallway, while his voiceover discusses what could probably be interpreted as his views on creativity: “Fantasy plays, like, the role of a—almost like a supplement. Draw on fantasy to make things hyper-real, I guess. Saturate the colors.”
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While Ocean recently teased a July due date for his upcoming sophomore album Boys Don’t Cry, the Calvin Klein spot doesn’t seem to include any new music.
Check out the clip below…
Masc Pride
Still couldn’t name a song by this guy if asked. Another one of those artists whose name is more popular than the actual music. So many of those these days.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
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PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
” spot doesn’t seem to include any new music.”
Um..how can you lack the most basic..nvm.. there is music in the background (his?) and possibly lyrics — POSSIBLY
Black Pegasus
What an artistic bore this guy has become. No hit songs as of late, and no spicy thirst traps. 🙂
He should look to Justin Bieber on how to properly market Calvins.
Just take your damn pants off Frank.
PRINCE OF SNARKNESS aka DIVKID
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Scribe38
@Masc Pride: Because you’re so in tune with R&B culture -_-
Random
If you look at the rest of the videos on the channel it seems pretty obvious that it’s just a joke.
Random
@Random: Ooops! Wrong article!
ingyaom
Was that a male Marilyn Monroe?
Masc Pride
@Scribe38: I listen to everything. This guy’s last CD was like five years ago. Beyonce, Jay-Z and Kanye all featured him at some point, and yet most people still can’t name a Frank Ocean song. It’s pretty sad.
Brian
Why isn’t Frank being shown with another man? Is Calvin Klein afraid of showing two men together in such a mainstream ad?
Why is it that the corporations and media refuse to show two men together? Is it homophobia? I think there is a deeply entrenched homophobia in the fashion and media industries, including in those companies that are owned by gay men.
Stilinski26
He is sexy
Kangol
@Masc Pride: Uh, “Thinkin’ ‘Bout You”? “Pyramids”? “Lost”? “Forrest Gump”? ”
I wish he’d put out a new CD, star in a show about his life or what’s important to him, anything interesting.
Otherwise this is just another ad about a tired US fashion company. Gag.
ErikO
@Masc Pride: Very true.
@Brian: Calvin Klein has done that before but for awhile he was pretty closeted.