Department of totally unsurprising things:

Odd Future fans, much like Lady Gaga fans, are angrily dismissive of any attempts to suggest that their favorite artists were elevated to their respective echelons in the music industry for any reason other than their supposedly singular talents.

Both fandoms also like telling people who don’t adopt the party line to “shut up”.  Of course, shutting up is something we can promise we will never do—either with our serious culture crit or our casual opinionating.  

(P.S. It’s cool if you like Frank Ocean; we feel that his songwriting is just kinda weakly cornball and not our thing, but we trust that our readers will make up their own minds.  Important thing to remember is that there’s a whole bunch of awesome black R&B artists who’ve been out for a long time if you’ve been paying attention.  The biggest bummer about the way FO has been covered has been the erasure of that piece of black musical history and present reality.)