Why did Frank Ocean delete his Instagram posts?

May 2024 · 2 minute read

After a four-year hiatus, Frank Ocean returned to the music scene in 2016 with the Endless video album to fulfill his obligations to Def Jam. Ocean’s second studio album, Blonde, was independently released one day after Endless.

Blonde, the top-ranked album of the 2010s according to Pitchfork, expanded on Ocean’s experimental musical aesthetic. It was his first album to peak at number one on the US Billboard 200, and it received platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Why did Frank Ocean delete his Instagram posts?

Frank Ocean remarked that “I feel like there was dissonance between how I was seen by the audience and where I was actually,” the star told the magazine of the gesture. “I feel like between the numbers of zero to ten, in between every number there’s infinity, you know? I would describe a person as the space between the symbols, beyond the language. That dissonance—the word being a big container for how I was feeling… the way I was seen was not even close to correct. It’s still not correct, either.”

In the time since he made his account public, Ocean has gained over 165,000 followers. And although though he still considers himself a privacy-loving artist, he decided that reclaiming control over his public identity was a significant opportunity for him.

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