Later that evening, when he performs to a near-hysterical crowd, a line like “You’re so buff and so strong, I’m nervous … You run my mind, boy” sounds astonishingly subversive, hammering home how rarely we hear overtly same-sex songs, no matter what the genre.

Interview with Frank Ocean. The Guardian 21 July 2012. Additionally, I didn’t know that he was behind ‘I Miss You‘, one of the stronger tracks on Beyoncé’s 4.