
His voice can disappear on him sometimes and the multimedia aspect and the song selection itself (the fine but not-an-album-standout “Forrest Gump”) made it seem like Ocean was buying into his own hype a little bit. Was that the most traditionally dazzling performance by Frank Ocean? Nope. The lack of wins was compounded by a mediocre performance, noted David Malitz of Style Blog: He also made headlines when he revealed his first love was a man shortly before the album’s release. He also won best rap/sung collaboration for “No Church In the Wild” with West, Jay-Z and The-Dream.īut the R&B singer released one of the year’s most critically revered albums last year, which made several best-of-the-year lists.

Ocean’s official studio debut, “channel ORANGE,” did win best urban contemporary album.
