Want another Frank Ocean album to drop after Blonde? You may be waiting for a while, but don’t worry. One musician went viral this week for teaching Twitter how to create their own Ocean songs from scratch.
Singer-songwriter Nat Puff, better known by her stage name “Left At London,” put together a short video yesterday building a “Fake Ocean” song one step at a time. She starts first by joking that Ocean only uses one or two instruments in the background and that “you don’t need drums, ’cause it’s a Frank Ocean song.” Then she breaks down the lyrics, stressing that if you want to create a good Ocean song, you should invoke nature as much as possible, because “that man is a living, breathing haiku.”
“The other motifs being nostalgia, loneliness, and different names for weed that you didn’t know existed before,” Puff quips, after which singing, “stumbled through the trees / the trees, you and me / we were kids, now we’re grown.”
As for the chorus? Puff stresses you can choose “any random song from the ’60s or ’70s,” rip the chorus, pitch shift it, sing a bunch of harmonies, and throw it all together. So of course, she chose John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” Then she beat shifts it and starts rapping about how “this ain’t real your man give me head” and being “freshly drenched in that coochie water.” Catch the whole video below.
How to make a Frank Ocean song pic.twitter.com/x8PndMDsay
— Im @leftatlondon on other websites too (HINT HINT) (@LeftAtLondon) November 13, 2018
The last part is a bit hard to hear so here are the lyrics lol pic.twitter.com/nZQbVgcnWc
— Im @leftatlondon on other websites too (HINT HINT) (@LeftAtLondon) November 13, 2018
Puff quickly went viral, in part because her “Fake Ocean” song actually does sound like something Frank Ocean would put together.
https://twitter.com/classiciloveit/status/1062435837827149824
wait a minute, wait a damn minute pic.twitter.com/eohP8fYOPW
— Marc A. Von Askën (@PrinzVonAsken) November 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/TweetJCNTweet/status/1062445821747175426
country rooooooaaads take me hoooomme pic.twitter.com/3J3qVqsMkZ
— federal agent (@jcdiaa) November 13, 2018
When that counttttrryyy roads hit pic.twitter.com/rpH7Zhx0ta
— Andy Soda 🥤 (@Spangdaddy) November 14, 2018
This fake ocean got me over here like pic.twitter.com/H9LJtW74Jn
— 𝒫𝓇❁𝓁𝒶𝓅𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝒜𝓃𝓊𝓈 (@TatortotsMD) November 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/pepsirosiie/status/1062436565509652480
Freshly drenched in that coochie water… iconic! Bars of the year! 💯🔥
— christian. 🏳️🌈♎️👽🌟🍓🍯 (@VINNYJCOLDASICE) November 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/S0LARDOG/status/1062559976789553152
Some listeners even want her to release the track. But then again, a real Frank Ocean song would never drop, right?
https://twitter.com/esnyjehan/status/1062438703526748161
u gonna drop the track tho?
— shawn Ⓥ (@palegoon) November 13, 2018
that beat switchup is genuinely incredible dfgbdfjlgbjldgb
— 🤖🥛Vicar Emulia 🥛🤖 (@emuchaton) November 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/xoivyy/status/1062556389724352513
https://twitter.com/NightWriter14/status/1062470785439318018
how do i listen to that song tho
— tricia (@yung_sprout) November 13, 2018
this is so accurate jzkzkddl but girl we’re gonna need a full version of that
— sora maria (@sunnynacia) November 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/chuucksie/status/1062471184997146624
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Meanwhile, Puff also went viral on Sunday after joking that hip-hop radio stations won’t stop playing Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” for 13 hours straight.
“Please, for the loveGod god, stop playing ‘SICKO MODE’—” a caller complains, to which she responds, “No, no, no, don’t say that, it will make Drake angry” as the song starts blasting.
hip hop radio 2018 pic.twitter.com/iDJJjZKWnW
— Im @leftatlondon on other websites too (HINT HINT) (@LeftAtLondon) November 11, 2018
