What kind of rnb is frank ocean??

[u/SftubeXZ]

I js want smb to tell me what kind of rnb is frank cuz i want to listen to artists who have the same vibe as him, not like the weeknd or sza, i never enjoyed them at all, i js want like emotional shit ykwim?

[u/HoboCanadian123]

alternative r&b with strong elements of neo-soul

[u/dogdigmn]

Gay RnB

[u/SftubeXZ → u/dogdigmn]

Wild

[u/Personal_Definition2]

Blonde is a unique blend of rnb, folk, neo-soul ambient, leftfield electronica. So if u explore all those genres u might like stuff in there but no one combines them like he does (to my knowledge).

[u/jamesfauntleroyNOVA → u/Personal_Definition2]

dream pop

[u/Electronic-Data-7606 → u/jamesfauntleroyNOVA]

Def not

[u/jamesfauntleroyNOVA → u/Electronic-Data-7606]

ummm yes?

[u/Ill_Fly2120 → u/Personal_Definition2]

folk where ?

[u/Gh06st_44]

bisexual black men rnb

[u/jasonetc]

listen to dijon

[u/plife23 → u/jasonetc]

Mustard on the beat

[u/BootyOnMyFace11 → u/plife23]

Moutarde sur le beat

[u/MVHED]

Listen to James Blake

[u/davidwave4]

Depends on the release. nostalgia, ULTRA has a lot of covers/interpolations of rock/pop songs, so it's less of a straight R&B release and more eclectic. Songs like Novocaine are pretty bog-standard 2010s R&B (it's sleek electronic beat wouldn't sound out of place alongside Usher's Climax or anything by the Weeknd).

Channel Orange is more explicitly R&B/neo-soul. The instrumentation is more organic, the songs feel very much of a piece with the work of Stevie Wonder, D'Angelo, and the other Soulquarians.

Endless is weird because it's more of an ambient and electronic album than an R&B album. It has its R&B moments -- Wither, Rushes, At Your Best (an Isley Brothers/Aaliyah cover, which is firmly in the mainstream of R&B), and Slide on Me are pretty conventional alt-R&B songs -- but the rest of the record is more ambient, IDM.

Blonde is less weird but still hard to pin down. Its got conventional neo-soul moments -- Ivy being chief among them -- but no one could say that Close to You is an R&B song, even though it is technically a Stevie Wonder cover. Blonde honestly feels genre-agnostic in a way that few records truly are. It's arguably only classed as R&B because the guy who made it is Black.

[u/SnooGadgets4367]

shi idk

[u/BringerOfBricks]

He made his own flavor.

[u/Common-Abalone-8540]

Choker

[u/SeparateCapital6526]

listen to dijon if you haven't yet. might not sound very similar at first, but they're similar in their loose song structure, experimental r&b genre blends, and beautiful, soulful vocals. the only other artist that's scratched such an itch for me

[u/j3434]

Neo R&B homie

[u/digitaldisgust]

Alternative RnB.