Many people haven’t been impressed with Frank Ocean lately; Diplo included.
12.04.2023 - 01:15 / thefader.com
Frank Ocean is set to perform this weekend at Coachella, a set that’s perhaps the year’s most anticipated. That gig, coupled with the fact that it’s been seven years since the release of his albums Blonde and Endless and three since his last song (“Dear April”) means that it’s the perfect time to throw some chum in the water and stoke a feeding frenzy of Frank speculation.
And that’s just what BMW did yesterday (April 10), sharing a short video shot at Coachella and featuring an orange BMW E30 M3, the very same car that appears on the front cover of Ocean’s breakout mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra. Watch the mysterious teaser below via DMY.
.Many people haven’t been impressed with Frank Ocean lately; Diplo included.
Frank Ocean‘s headlining performance during the first weekend of Coachella was cut short and had a couple of bumps. It also reportedly featured at least three less songs than he rehearsed in soundchecks before taking the stage.
Goldenvoice, the promoter behind Coachella, is actively trying to figure out how to use the ditched ice rink that was custom-built for Frank Ocean's headlining set, Billboard reports. They're reportedly hoping to incorporate it into the second weekend of the festival in some fashion in order to help mitigate the losses stemming from Ocean's cancellation of his performance on Sunday, which will reportedly cost the festival "several million dollars." The rink, constructed for an onstage performance of over 100 ice skaters and the most expensive element of the production, was nixed by Ocean the day of his performance after the singer was injured on the festival grounds.
Frank Ocean has pulled out of the second weekend of this year’s Coachella festival. He headlined the event last Sunday, but his performance was both praised and criticised, with many feeling that it was not up to standard.Later in the week it emerged that Ocean had sustained an injury prior to the festival set, which had meant he wasn’t able to proceed with the show as planned.
On Monday (April 17), speculation around what might have gone wrong at Frank Ocean's Coachella set started flooding social media. Twitter account Festive Owl, who's been a source of festival news for the past decade, tweeted about a scrapped ice rink performance, where many skaters were unexpectedly cut from the set. A day prior, a photo of ice machines backstage furthered the claims.
After a very chaotic and polarizing set at Coachella Weekend 1, many music fest fans are asking: who is replacing Frank Ocean at Coachella?
Frank Ocean has cancelled his Coachella Weekend 2 headlining set, scheduled to close out the festival this coming Sunday (April 23), Pitchfork reports and The FADER has confirmed. Frank’s Weekend 1 performance — which some very vocal, extremely online fans felt was lackluster — was affected by a leg injury he had sustained earlier last week, according to his publicist.
Frank Ocean‘s Coachella set have spoken out about how their performance was axed.It was reported earlier this week that an on-stage ice rink for Ocean’s headlining set was scrapped after he injured his ankle during his on-ground rehearsals, causing several last-minute changes.Now, brothers Dan and Chris Powers have discussed their alleged involvement with Ocean’s scrapped stage production on the Empty Netters podcast.The Powers brothers spoke about auditioning for the performance on an elevated ice rink, and rehearsing for roughly a month leading up to Ocean’s set. They claimed that they were rehearsing with other hockey skaters and Olympic figure skaters up until April 11, and did not learn about the production changes until hours before Ocean’s set.“We get our call sheet, we have to go to this hotel to be picked up by a runner to be brought over to wardrobe and makeup,” said Dan Powers. “That moment is where the wheels started to fall off.
Frank Ocean has pulled out of his headline performance at Coachella's second weekend.
Coachella this weekend after a controversial performance in the desert on Sunday, The Post can confirm. Blink-182 will reportedly take the 35-year-old “Lost” singer’s place this Sunday.The punk band’s original lineup, Mark Hoppus, 51, Travis Barker, 47, and Tom Delonge, 47, reunited at Coachella on Friday for the first time since Delonge left the band in 2015. “After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1, Frank Ocean was unable to perform the intended show but was still intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the show was reworked out of necessity,” Ocean’s rep said in a statement to The Post on Wednesday.
Frank Ocean has pulled out of his headlining slot at Coachella weekend 2 this coming Sunday (April 23) and will reportedly be replaced by Blink-182.Frank Ocean’s withdrawal was announced via the singer’s agency, Huxley in a statement to press. Huxley’s statement reads: “Frank Ocean will not be performing at weekend 2 of Coachella.”“After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1.
The show must go on. Frank Ocean will no longer headline the final weekend of Coachella after his polarizing first performance the week prior.
A major change is being made to the lineup for the second weekend of Coachella!
Following blistering reviews for his disastrous performance headlining the first weekend of Coachella, Frank Ocean has dropped out of the second weekend.
Frank Ocean has canceled his appearance at Coachella and will not return for the second week of the music festival, multiple media outlets report.
Frank Ocean is no longer set to headline the second weekend of Coachella after a divisive and poorly received performance last Sunday.A rep for the singer released a statement to ET confirming, «Frank Ocean will not be performing at weekend 2 of Coachella.»«After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1, Frank Ocean was unable to perform the intended show but was still intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the show was reworked out of necessity.»The rep's statement said that, «on doctor’s advice,» Ocean will not perform again «due to two fractures and a sprain in his left leg.»The statement included remarks from Ocean himself, who commented on his first weekend set, sharing, «It was chaotic. There is some beauty in chaos.
Frank Ocean will not be performing his scheduled headlining slot at Coachella this Sunday, a rep for the singer confirms to Variety. A source close to the situation says his spot will be taken by Blink-182. The statement reads: “Frank Ocean will not be performing at weekend 2 of Coachella. “After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1. Frank Ocean was unable to perform the intended show but was still intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the show was reworked out of necessity. “On doctor’s advice, [Ocean] is not able to perform weekend 2 due to two fractures and a sprain in his left leg.”
Frank Ocean originally had an epic ice-skating routine planned for his Coachella 2023 performance. After he was originally set to headline the music festival in 2020 — before the pandemic shut down the festival — Ocean returned to Indio, California, on Sunday to headline the first weekend of this year's star-studded music festival. The performance was the singer's first in six years since 2017's Flow Festival in Finland.When it came time for his performance, fans became irate when not only was it announced that his set would not be included in YouTube's livestream from the festival, but signs placed around the venue declared that no Frank Ocean merchandise would be available for purchase at the festival.
Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Two former hockey players who bailed on Frank Ocean’s Coachella performance after it seemingly became enveloped in chaos Sunday have spoken up about the experience in a podcast. Brothers Dan and Chris Powers say that they and more than a hundred other skaters had a positive experience through a good month of rehearsal in L.A., and even a successful dress rehearsal on the Coachella main stage — only to have Ocean render most of the skaters’ services unnecessary as he scrapped the entire epic ice-capades setup as the festival grounds were filling up. In the first segment of their “Empty Netters” podcast, released Tuesday, the Powers brothers said that there were about 120 skaters who’d been hired for the show and had been rehearsing on a makeshift ice rink at Paramount for weeks — including, they said, several Olympians well-known in the figure skating community, as well as hockey veterans like themselves. In the end, they said, the vast majority of these skating extras were left waiting on buses or in hot tents for hours on the perimeter of the festival grounds as Ocean made the last-minute call to dissemble the ice rink and ditch the planned skate choreography.
Justin Bieber praised Frank Ocean’s Coachella set over the weekend, but it looks like he might not remember all of it judging by a TikTok clip that’s been doing the rounds online.