![]() ![]() ![]() Though the songs were crafted before the pandemic and summer of protests, he feels they seem right for our time now. To make the album, Ocean co-wrote 19 songs last summer and settled on 12, going into the mix three times to get the balance right between slow tunes and uptempo ones. “For me as a Black person, how long are we going be shot down by the police?” “I mean, for God’s sake: How long are we going to go on with this sort of climate?” he asks. “We need a love revolution because there’s too much hatred around and there’s too much misunderstanding around,” he tells The Associated Press by phone from his home in the U.K. He sings in the title track: “What we need is a love revolution.” Three songs alone have the word “love” in the title. What is the benefit of everybody trying to bring people down?”įor his first studio album in a decade, Ocean returns to the theme of uplift. I like to think it’s a gift to lift you up. “If I was an angry man, I wouldn’t be able to make the sort of music I’m trying to make,” he says. It’s the way he’s done it from his 1984 hit “Caribbean Queen (No More Love On the Run)” to his bright new album, “One World.” Yet none of that is unleashed in his mix of soul, reggae, R&B and pop infused with the warmth of the Caribbean. He’s fed up with hatred and thinks society is often going backward. Now 70, he’s frustrated by structural racism and by Black people being shot by police. ![]()
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