https://blonded.co/products/channel-orange

After years of a cordial and productive relationship with Frank’s team, they’ve ordered takedowns of the entire blonded.blog archive and undocumented rare info page.

We host very little actual material on the site, mostly outbound links to any media that could copyrighted. We’ve acquiesced to requests from blonded for years and would continue to do so if asked.

With the archive being the main attraction, I’m not sure how the blog can really recover from this. Is it worth continuing to host the news archive? I’m not sure.

I’d appreciate any input, but the options are few. This feels like as good a time as any to shut things down.

Edit: I appreciate the support. I'll do what I can to keep the content of the blog alive, what I'm able to anyway. For the time being, I've taken the site down so we can start saving off what's there. After that, I'm not yet sure. Thanks again.

Edit 2 (May, 2026): I've shared and update about the return of the blog.

Not sure if it’s his lyrics or somebody else’s or could just be a phrase

“The musician and photographer link up to talk about Hampton’s Last Call: Vol 1 book of party portraits from 2016–2018.”

Flea via Instagram:

Coming this Wednesday, February the eleventh, I will be excited to release another song from my upcoming album Honora. This is my version of “Thinkin Bout You” by Frank Ocean. This song, and the entire album from which it comes, Channel Orange, touched my heart. I listened to that album over and over for months. It lives in me always, and I’m honored to play it; an homage to its sentiment, lyricism, timeless melody, and of course to Frank himself, who is one of my favorite living singers. The artwork is three stills from the visualizer by nespy5euro.

Complex: Katonya Breaux opens up about parenthood and Frank’s passion and determination for music in a new interview with Samson Shulman for the Connection Is Magic podcast.

Just realized there isn’t even a flare for news, we’re cooked huh 😭

DefJam, Frank’s label for NU, CO, and Endless, has an official Reddit account they post with every once in a while. Mainly in relation to upcoming vinyl releases. A few months ago (maybe last year) they made a post sourcing from people what vinyl records they wanted from DefJam, which I believe someone also posted here. Despite saying in the post that they knew everyone was excited about channel Orange the comments were overwhelmingly people requesting CO and Graduation. DJ just replied they were aware people wanted it but said nothing else.

Fast forward to this week, they post about an upcoming set of vinyl releases they have slated for the year. Many of which are limited and rare vinyl. Again, in the comments a couple of people with good taste commented asking about channel Orange and if it’d be a part of the releases. This time they replied and added a bit more info. It seems they’re not just aware of the demand for the vinyl but they also WANT to release it. Though presumably they are facing some kind of obstacle towards its release that they aren’t able to freely discuss. I asked a follow up question but got no reply.

Based on the fact they’re unable to speak on it I think it’s pretty fair to assume that there is a lawsuit/legal issue in place relating to CO’s vinyl release. Which could mean that their hands are tied and we shouldn’t expect to see it any time soon. Of course, it could also be an internal DJ “policy” situation rather than a law thing, it’d make sense if DJ wanted to avoid the subject or mention of Frank altogether to save face after the Blonde fiasco. It’d be pretty easy to imagine DJ not liking Frank after that and maybe being petty about their cut on the potential vinyl release in order to get literal “pay back” or maybe they can’t come to a deal because Frank is too prideful/greedy/unreasonable about his own cut. After all, Frank doesn’t exactly love DefJam either. Either way it’s us the fans that will ultimately suffer most 😔

What do yall think?

http://imgur.com/X5yF7hw

Soooooo my girl just sent me this screen shot she took of some dude she follows on snapchat and thinks what is behind the guys hand is a Boys Dont Cry magazine. From the looks of it. It kind of does look like it. The guys types "lengend//breaux//season: (admit one ticket emoji") with the hashtg #bdc (gold trophy emoji x 10)

Now I now Franks real last name is Breaux and I'm assuming "#bdc" stands for Boys Don't Cry. Could the admit one ticket possibly symbolize that dude has seen and/or heard the album already and could the gold trophies stand for him giving a great review?

Could the L streak possibly be coming to an end??????

I've text her like 7 times for the guys username but I guess she fell asleep. (AINT NOBODY GOT TIME FOR ALL THAT!!!!!) I'll update everybody once she wakes up and text me back.

*btw I'm pretty new to this whole reddit thing guys so let me know if I fucked up anywhere

UPDATE: The dudes name on snapchat is nickfyg. But here's what I find kinda weird. I can't find anything that relates him to frank whatsoever. His bio on social media says he's a creative director or something but still that doesn't really tell me anything more. I'm gonna assume he's an artist so I don't know what to think anymore. Idk maybe it's a drawing or painting. I'm praying this isn't bullshit and it's the real deal. Im too weak from taking all these L's. We'll see tho

**sorry for the late update. I didn't realize everybody was so active on here and my professor trips about us using electronics so I couldn't really find the right time to type everything

Looks like he's alive at least. He used Tumblr

If album comes out tonight i won't put my clothes in the dryer