Oyster Magazine, Zac Bayly, Frank Ocean - Frank Ocean Oyster Magazine Interview lyrics

Frank Ocean did not want to do this interview
(In fact, for the first hour he thought I
Had called only to discuss the
Feature, and didn't realise I was actually
Interviewing him) Sorry, Frank! "That’s cool
" he said "I'm happy to
Talk about whatever just
Make it good" Over the course of two
Hours we discussed all the
Usual things you might
Talk about with a critically acclaimed singer
Songwriter like the function of
Pants, Oprah's facial expressions
And selling crack in high school
Zac Bayly: Hey, Frank!
Frank Ocean: Hey Zack, How's it going?
Not bad i just woke up what about you?
Are you an Aussie? I'm from Australia
Yes can you hear it in my accent?
I actually suck with accents i wouldn't
Have been able to tell


What have you been up to today?
Umjust hanging out with my little brother
He's about to be twelve
Are you the oldest in the family?
Yeah how about you? Do you
Have any brothers and sisters?
I have a younger brother and
Sister they're 16 and 20 16 and 20? Nice
Do you get along with your brother?
Yeah, I get along with him he is just a kid
Buthe's funny he's got a good sense of humour
What have you been listening to lately?
I've kinda been obsessed with
Old Aretha Franklin stuff
What's your favorite song of hers?
'Daydreaming'i'm really distracted today you
Know if I didn't live in LA I would have
A much more refined daily dress-code but
Since I live herethe weather's great
But it's also a little forbidding in
The sense that I can't
Wear a tonne of layers all
The time and be really slick?
Be really posh and shit -
Wear stuff of that nature
I find the heat so oppressive
I moved to London
To escape it i love those grey skies
And the cold
See, I'm with you! I'm actuallyi
Was looking at a
Place in Notting Hill i'm kind of obsessed
With the idea of moving i'm kind of obsessed
With that i'm gonna make the move
Where are you right now?
I'm at a store for pants
What kind of pants are you buying?
Pants that hide my legs and my privates
Those are usually the best kinds of pants

I hate shopping for pants it’s the
Hardest thing in the world!


I went to Tokyo, and apart from
It being really hot and humid
It was one of my favorite trips
I wasn't going there for a
Show or anything i was just
Going there to hang out
I'd been there for a couple weeks
And there's just something about the
Pride that they take in their work that
I kind of gravitate towards i
Mean, not to make my response too simple
But that's probably at the core of why I
Like so much of what comes out of
That part of the world they have that
Attitude towards their work:
Pride and presentation
Yeah that's important i feel like
Lots of people want
To be a famous such-and-such but they don't
Necessarily want to put in all the hard work
To the point where they've
Created something incredible, you know?

Yeah your ambition needs to
Be to create something
Good, not to be famous or whatever
You know?

Sometimes I feel like people don't
Realise it's actually an
Incredible amount of work to do anything well
Yeah, I can relate to that - I
Can relate to both sides of that
Because at different times in my lifehmmm how
Do I say this? You know
I didn't ever have a disciplinarian in my
Creative life as a young person
I didn't have for
Lack of a better word I didn't have
A Joe Jackson in my family i didn't have
That sort of overbearing stage
Parent… Or, even
I didn't even have a parent who
Encouraged what I did in that
Way and don't bring out the string
Section it's not really sad
What it did foster is… Well, my attitude
Was pure i love to make music
And I love to write it was writing first
I love to write and express
Myself in that medium, so that
Was the pure part just the
Love of doing something, but there was
Also this fantasy of what the lifestyle
Would be and what the trappings
Of success would be there are
Different little montage clips that
You make up in your mind
Like what a day in the
Life would be like once you're a fully grown
Whatever you're-going-to-become, you know?
Yeah i think every decision I
Make in life is based
On a montage that I see in my head
Yeah yeah i think that was me
But there was a transition and it wasn't like
I just woke up and had an
Epiphany, but it was a transition where
I began to realise that
If I didn't really begin to
Focus on the work
I couldn't see any way for
Me to become who I wanted to become
It just wasn't gonna happen and
Then somewhere in that time of my
Life it was like… Instead
Of wanting to get to a certain
Level of fame or how much
Liquid assets I had under my
Name, it was more like
"How well can I develop my skill set?"
You know? "How far can I push
My creativity? If I'm gonna do this
If I'm gonna be a singer
Songwriter then OK, I'm a singer
Songwriter, but how can I be the best?"
Right, right

I know what you mean
Writing is most certainly an art
Form - and you have
To have to keep balancing
Juggling like circus actors
Negotiating between the business and the
Crafti'd almost lean towards saying
That's an art form in and of it'self also
That's a very stimulating aspect
Of the whole thing
- balancing the business and creative side

What is the worst thing you've been called?
The worst thing I've been calledhmmm i mean
It's less about what someone calls you
And more about who's calling you that so
I don't know the answer to that question i'm
A bit impervious to the
Things that people say
Depending on who's saying it
Yeah99% of the people who comment on
Your existence don't really matter
Right yeah
I'm fairly aware of that i try to
Unflip things and have thick skin
No matter what people are saying, but when
People are closer to youyou know
You get into a spat with
Someone you care about
And they say some shit
They don't mean, or that they do
Mean, which makes it more emotional
Butyou know - you get over it
Do you think I could be the
Next Oprah based on this interview?

I need a catchphrase!
Oprah doesn't have a catchphrase, does she?
No, I guess she doesn't she has a
Facial expression that's like a catchphrase

Will you be a guest on my show?
You need to learn how to cry
So, what can you tell me about Nabil?
Nabil's cool he's a cool guy i
Feel like he should spend more
Time in war zones taking photos you
Know, some people I meet
I feel like they just don't
Belong in LA he's one
Of those people he needs
A more intense environment
Do you feel like you belong in LA?
Do I feel like I belong in LA? Hmmmhere's my
Feeling about LA: LA is this massive place
And you get so many types of lifestyles and
Shit here you find all
These pockets take my friend
Who lives in Malibu
For example - I think that's
Still LA County so he lives in LA
But he lives in a place that
Doesn't look like it's in
LA for all intents and purposes
He isn't in the same lA that I live in at my
Place in Hollywood - we might
As well be a state apart considering
How different it is so
I can see myself belonging in
Certain parts of LA right
Like, when I say that about Nabil
I feel like Nabil doesn't belong anywhere
In LA County nabil belongs in Saint
Petersburg, Russia, for a little while
Or he belongs in a war zone taking
Iconic photos - risking his life
For the shot i think I could
Use a couple of years
Away from this city - I think
I could definitely use a couple
Of years away from this city seven
Years is a long time

Hello? What's your middle name?
My middle name? Yes
My full name is Zachary Cameron Bayly
Zachary Cameron Bayly there was a bully
In my elementary school named Bailey bailey?
At my middle school, actually
I wasn't him i'm not a bully

What were you like in school?
I was a thug i sold a
Lot of cocaine and crack
You sold cocaine and crack? All the time
Really? Yup
I was not as cool as you
You weren't as cool as me?
I was reading Harry Potter
Harry Potter is good
Wait - so you were reading
Harry Potter and selling crack? Um