It’s a funky, blown-out pop opus with multiple parts, a song that showcases Ocean’s brilliant, idiosyncratic vision. If you showed Pyramids to a person without the lyrics they would certainly understand that something terrible happened between the parts since the respective beats do an amazing job on their own to create a vivid image in your head.Hours after a new album announcement, Frank Ocean took to his Tumblr to post the nine-minute “Pyramids,” a slice of which we heard in the initial teaser.
There's so much more to say but I think that the fantastic Beat Switch perfectly illustrates this sudden descent into the bottomless pit. Track 10 on channel ORANGE This is Frank Ocean’s near 10 minute long tale of the ancient history of the Black woman, and her gradual decline from a Queen in her homeland to.
The modern trap beat shows Cleopatra's arrival in the modern, harsh reality. Thousands of years have passed since the Egyptian Pharaohs of antiquity built the spectacular tombs which are known to history as the Great Pyramids. At this point Cleopatra is at her low point and has lost everything. Frank Ocean: Pyramids: Directed by Nabil Elderkin. A loud, low-pitched synth suddenly takes the lead and odd, reverbed noises in the background instantly create a dark, eerie and minimalist atmosphere. The first part ends abruptly after Frank tells us about the downfall of queen Cleopatra. The beat also sounds throwback-ish with repeating/stuttering parts. Frank's voice during this part is very energetic and switches between high and low tones, adding to the maximalist, loud vibe of the first part. Below is a table of the meta data for Pyramids. Pyramids has a BPM/tempo of 108, is in the key F Minor and has a duration of 09:52. It is track 10 in the album channel ORANGE (Explicit Version). The beat incorporates elements from House music and sounds very pompous and colorful with many layers. Pyramids is a song by Frank Ocean released on 10th July 2012. Interestingly, the critically acclaimed album is climbing the charts again 10 years later thanks to social media. The first part of Pyramids describes Cleopatra as this luxurious queen with gold and gigantic palaces as well as the start of her demise. A decade ago, Frank Ocean dropped his debut album ‘Channel Orange,’ giving us timeless jams like Thinking Bout You and Pyramids. The Beat Switch in Pyramids, like the one in Nights, changes the entire mood and atmosphere in the track. People are always talking about the infamous Beat Switch in Nights and yet there's almost no conversation about the one in Pyramids which is just as amazing if not better:
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