The songs “Pilot Jones,” “Crack Rock,” and “Lost” focus on the lives of drug addicts and suppliers and demonstrate how people may lose everything because of drugs – their friends, lovers, morals, their whole lives.
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Meanwhile, the song “Not Just Money” seems to be an address to the wealthy people motivating them to live full lives and not measure everything by money only. These children know nothing about the problems of others, have fake friends, and have a constricted outlook. The songs “Sweet Life” and “Super Rich Kids” unveil the lives of the gilded youth who live in an artificial paradise that has nothing in common with the real world and real pleasures. Besides, in this song, as well as in the track “Pink Matter,” the persona describes the physical pleasure of having sex with a woman. The persona, who is a future father, realizes he is not ready to be a parent, but he has to learn to take responsibility for his actions. In the third track titled “Sierra Leone,” Ocean touches upon the problem of unintended teenage pregnancy and the need for young people to grow up. The song “Fertilizer” that is a cover of James Fauntleroy’s work serves as an introduction to a new chapter of Ocean’s album – a chapter that is full of pain and absurd. In fact, when the persona feels unwanted for the first time, it becomes a moment when he understands that life is not a bed of roses and decides to shift his attention from his personal tragedies to those of other people. In particular, the first and the last but one songs of the album, “Thinking Bout You” and “Forrest Gump” focus on the problem of unrequited love. It is, rather, a mosaics made of the singer’s memories about the events and people that produced an immense impression on him. Still, Ocean’s album is not only about love and romance.
As for the title of the album, orange here is a color with which Ocean associates the happiest summer of his life when the singer fell in love for the first time. In particular, they may see the colors of numbers or associate seasons with a specific smell. Synesthetes are people whose cognitive system functions differ from that of most people since particular triggers stimulate several sensory systems simultaneously. Ocean explains that it relates to such a phenomenon as synesthesia. The title of the album has an important symbolic meaning for the singer.