![]() Working with a deceptively complex live setup, Ocean messed up a couple times - missing a couple queues in his headphones, singing one song a few bars early - but it only added to the experience he chuckled off these gaffes, openly admitting them to a crowd that was very much in the palm of his hand. The biggest message came unspoken, from his white T-shirt that read, “WHY BE RACIST, SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC, TRANSPHOBIC WHEN YOU COULD JUST BE QUIET?”įrank Ocean's 10 Best Songs: Critic's PicksĪnd before you knew it, it was all over. Scribbled artwork, presumably Ocean’s, adorned the stage. Sometimes the cameras would switch to a stagehand who was playing movies on his laptop and typing out playful messages in a Word doc (“heyyyyyy New York”). Being out in the crowd was the most important part, with massive screens on the vacated stage projecting Ocean’s image, often quite psychedelically, to the sprawling Randall’s Island crowd. Ocean’s stage show, what apparently led him to cancel those other 2017 festivals, was essential to the intimacy. That meant no “Slide” or “Pyramids,” but tear-jerking performances of “Ivy” and “Nights,” the kind that make you want to take out your phone and text everyone you love, just because.įrank Ocean’s shirt tonight at Panorama NYC: “Why be racist, sexist, homophobic, or transphobic when you could just be quiet?” /XLPjAM9ZP8 Ocean focused on his 2016 album, peppering the set with a couple recent singles and Channel Orange songs, though only ones that fit this introspective, nocturnal feel. The pensive, stripped-down vibes of that Blonde track characterized the rest of the evening. Appropriately, he was the only human on stage. His first move? Nonchalantly putting a cassette tape into a stereo - upside down at first - before launching into “Solo” from this mid-crowd platform. He emerged about 10 minutes later, walking out alone to predictably massive applause. A platform in the center of the crowd - about 30 yards from the front of the stage - was outfitted with keyboards, amps, a disco ball - all suggesting Ocean would be performing from inside the crowd. start time came and went with no Ocean, but it was clear the stage crew was cooking up something interesting. It certainly helped if you were up close. The R&B singer mesmerized the New York crowd for a little over an hour, inviting fans into his own world for the sort of intimate performance you’d think would be impossible for a major festival headlining slot. Previous festival cancelations be damned, this one happened and it was special. Even if it’s a tweet, I have to respect that.In the weeks leading up to Panorama, there was reason to fear Frank Ocean’s Friday night (July 28) headlining set would never come to be. Being a creator myself, people have copied my shirts before, I totally understand Brandon. “It would be pretty irresponsible of me to just take it. “Moving forward when people message me with shirt ideas, I should do more investigating,” she said. While it remains unclear whether tweets fall under copyright protection, Robinson says she wants Male to get the credit he deserves. Green Box Shop added a link to Male’s tweet at the bottom of their product page, and Robinson said she called Male to apologize and discuss numbers. “They didn’t send me a screenshot or anything,” she said. Robinson said she was not aware of Male’s tweet or request until recently, and said she got the quote when someone direct messaged the company in the fall of 2016. “I ended up letting it slide after that.” ![]() “They told me I needed to calm down and said they credited me on Instagram one time,” he told the Times. When he saw them on one of Green Box Shop’s shirts earlier this year, he reached out to the company who, he says, mostly dismissed him. ![]() Male, an 18-year-old student from Syracuse, NY, tweeted the words in August 2015. The store was inundated with 5,500 orders overall in the two days after Ocean’s performance.īut questions were raised about the shirt’s quote even before Panorama. The maker of Frank Ocean’s Panorama Music Festival shirt is facing copyright questions after it was revealed that the quote on Ocean’s shirt came from a 2015 tweet by Brandon Male, who said he had not been paid or credited for the company’s use of the phrase, according to the New York Times.įollowing Ocean’s headlining performance on Friday night, in which the singer wore a plain, white T-shirt with the words: “WHY BE RACIST, SEXIST, HOMOPHOBIC, OR TRANSPHOBIC WHEN YOU COULD JUST BE QUIET?” fans identified the maker of the shirt as Green Box Shop, an online store founded by 18-year-old Kayla Robinson. Frank Ocean at the Panorama Music Festival. ![]()
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