Christopher Edwin Breaux, professionally known as Frank Ocean is an America… Read Full Bio ↴Christopher Edwin Breaux, professionally known as Frank Ocean is an American singer/songwriter and member of the gleefully hedonistic hip-hop collective OFWGKTA. He was born on October 28, 1987 and lived in Long Beach, California. He has helped pen tracks for Justin Bieber, John Legend, Brandy, and Beyoncé over the last few years. In 2011, Ocean released his debut mixtape, Nostalgia, Ultra, for free via his Tumblr.

Venting about his decision to drop the record his own way, he took to Twitter on March 1, 2011:

"i. did. this. not ISLAND DEF JAM. that's why you see no label logo on the artwork that I DID. guess its my fault for trusting my dumbass lawyer and signing my career over to a failing company. fuck Def Jam & any company that goes the length of signing a kid with dreams & talent w/ no intention of following through. fuck em. now back to my day. i want some oatmeal and toast. brunch swag."

As a member of the Odd Future (OFWGKTA) collective, his sound is distinctively soulful/r&b influenced, yet done in a way that could pass for something totally different. As Tyler, the Creator states, “It’s Smooth Ass Music About Bitches, Relationships And Being A Rich Young Nigga…But In A Swagged Out Way.”

Ocean was evacuated from the University of New Orleans to Los Angeles, California just as Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005, and stayed in Los Angeles to pursue a music career. Ocean joined Los Angeles based collective OFWGKTA, who he met through mutual friends, at the end of 2009. In the end of 2009, he met Tricky Stewart, who helped Ocean sign a contract with Def Jam Recordings as an artist, however, he was initially unable to build a relationship with the company. In 2010, he changed his name from Christopher "Lonny" Breaux to Christopher Francis Ocean via a legal website. In an April 2011 interview, Ocean intimated that his relationship with Def Jam has strengthened since the release of his mixtape. On April 28, 2011, Ocean was arrested on unspecified charges by the LAPD, and was released on the morning after on April 29, 2011. Ocean joined his OFWGKTA bandmates for the first time on tour from May 12 to May 19, 2011. On May 31, 2011, Def Jam released the single Novacane on iTunes soon followed by Swim Good Taken from his mixtape Nostalgia, ULTRA. His first 'proper' album, Channel Orange was released on July 17, 2012.

In 2016, He released the visual album Endless alongside his second studio album Blonde, following several years of delays. Blonde debuted at number one in the United States and United Kingdom.

In 2017, Ocean released several singles, including Chanel and Lens, through his Blonded Radio show, and made several appearances on other songs by artists like Calvin Harris, A$AP Mob, and Tyler, the Creator.

Rocket Love
Frank Ocean Lyrics

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"Three minutes forty five seconds and counting,
We'll still go at this time"

Listening to Star Trek's star tracks
On the track to stars and back
Only after we get to the end

Passing planets feeling small

On the mattress floating off
How you breathing up here with nothing on, nothing on, baby girl

But you look good in your spacesuit
I can't keep my hands off you
Plus it's easy to love you
Oh, up here, up here

I'm a take it slow, slow
While the rockets burn, they burning
We'll be making love, baby
Rocket love, rocket love ooh

"Two minutes ten seconds and counting"

The candle's burning in the sun
We don't need them but you like them
They glow they glow, oh yeah
We were at the bar for quite a while
Took some time but we collided
Big Bang, Big Bang, look at what we made beautiful

You look good in your spacesuit
I can't keep my hands off you
Plus it's easy to love you
Oh, up here, up here

I'm a take it slow, slow
While the rockets burn, they burning
We'll be making love, baby
Rocket love, rocket love ooh

We can make believe that we're up there
But we're only in the backseat of this Eclipse ooh
If the lights go by, that means the cops flew by
But they won't bother us, no no no no

I'm a take it slow, slow
While the rockets burn, they burning
We'll be making love, baby
Rocket love, rocket love ooh

"Twenty seconds and counting.
Fifteen seconds and counting.
Twelve, eleven, ten, nine, ignition sequence starts,

Six, five, four, three, two, one, zero.
All engines running. Liftoff! We have a liftoff! "

Overall Meaning

Frank Ocean’s song Rocket Love speaks to the overwhelming feeling of being in love under celestial light. The opening lines, “Three minutes forty-five seconds and counting / We'll still go at this time” is a nod to the countdown before a rocket launch. The song talks about floating in space, and the singer's love interest is represented as an astronaut in a space suit. The line “But you look good in your spacesuit,” although seemingly gratuitous, shows the woman’s strength and otherworldly appeal. The song speaks to an intense love that seems out of this world, unable to be contained by physics and earthly constraints.

The section “The candle's burning in the sun / We don't need them but you like them” is a metaphor about the couple. A candle burning in the sun represents something unnecessary or futile, and “we don’t need them” refers to other people's opinions or society's expectations. The couple is together on their own terms, despite external influences. “We were at the bar for quite a while/took some time but we collided” shows how the couple met; it took time and a little bit of fate for them to come together, but they did.

Line by Line Meaning

Three minutes forty five seconds and counting, We'll still go at this time
As the countdown continues, we will still proceed with our plan.

Listening to Star Trek's star tracks On the track to stars and back Only after we get to the end
We are listening to Star Trek music while we travel through space, but we won't stop until we reach our destination.

Passing planets feeling small On the mattress floating off How you breathing up here with nothing on, nothing on, baby girl
As we float through space, passing by planets, I wonder how you can breathe without any protection, my love.

But you look good in your spacesuit I can't keep my hands off you Plus it's easy to love you Oh, up here, up here
I can't resist you in your spacesuit; and loving you up in space is just so natural.

I'm a take it slow, slow While the rockets burn, they burning We'll be making love, baby Rocket love, rocket love ooh
We will take our time as we make love, in the midst of the fiery rocket boosters, baby.

"Two minutes ten seconds and counting"
The countdown continues.

The candle's burning in the sun We don't need them, but you like them They glow they glow, oh yeah We were at the bar for quite a while Took some time but we collided Big Bang, Big Bang, look at what we made beautiful
The candle flame is burning bright even in the brightness of the sun; though we don't need to go to bars, we did, and it's there that we 'collided' and made something beautiful, like the Big Bang.

We can make believe that we're up there But we're only in the backseat of this Eclipse ooh If the lights go by, that means the cops flew by But they won't bother us, no no no no
We can pretend we're in space, but really we're just in the backseat of a car; and even if the police pass us, they won't disturb our passionate moment.

Twenty seconds and counting. Fifteen seconds and counting. Twelve, eleven, ten, nine, ignition sequence starts, Six, five, four, three, two, one, zero. All engines running. Liftoff! We have a liftoff!
We are finally lifting off into space as the countdown reaches zero! All systems are go!

Writer(s): Waynne Nugent, Charlie Gambetta, Tim Stewart, Lamont Neuble, Christopher Breaux, Kevin Risto

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